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Brocade Further Integrates SAN Management Technology into EMC ViPR Software Defined Storage Platform
May 2014 by Emmanuelle Lamandé
Brocade announced additional integration of the company’s storage area networking (SAN) management technology into the EMC® ViPR™ Software-Defined Storage Platform resulting in support for larger SANs within highly virtualised cloud environments.
New integration for the EMC ViPR platform combines Fibre Channel routing and logical SAN (LSAN) zoning with Brocade Network Advisor SAN management software to enable policy-based automation for managing and provisioning both EMC and non-EMC storage infrastructure within medium to large enterprise SANs using the industry-standard Storage Management Initiative (SMI) interface.
Integrating Fibre Channel routing and LSAN zoning with Brocade Network Advisor will help reduce data centre costs and complexity for both current and future application deployments in larger SANs by taking advantage of Brocade Gen 5 Fibre Channel SAN solutions enhanced with Brocade Fabric Vision™ technology. Brocade Network Advisor is sold by EMC as Connectrix® Manager Converged Network Edition (CMCNE).
As a result of the joint efforts, EMC and Brocade’s largest SAN customers can now utilise the EMC ViPR platform to leverage existing storage infrastructures for traditional data centre workloads. This complete spectrum of capabilities can be run with enterprise storage, including the EMC VMAX®, VPLEX®, VNX®, Atmos® and Isilon® families, as well as commodity storage.
Availability
The EMC ViPR platform is now available from EMC and its global network of channel partners.
