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Brocade Data Center Solutions Featured in Microsoft Technology Centers Worldwide
November 2007 by Marc Jacob
Brocade announced that it has been selected to showcase and demonstrate its industry-leading data center solutions at Microsoft Technology Centers (MTCs) worldwide. MTCs provide enterprise customers with the opportunity to evaluate leading-edge and customized technology solutions from Microsoft and other leading vendors before deploying the solutions in their own environments.
MTCs are state-of-the-art facilities staffed by technology experts and supported by industry leaders to help customers envision, architect, and demonstrate Microsoft and partner solutions to solve their business problems. MTCs provide three types of offerings—strategy briefings, architecture design sessions, and proof-of-concept workshops—each of which focuses on a different stage of a customer’s search for a solution.
The Brocade suite of Storage Area Network (SAN) infrastructure and server connectivity solutions includes industry-leading switches, directors, routers, embedded switches for blade servers, fabric-based applications, and Host Bust Adaptors (HBAs), as well as management applications and utilities to centralize data management. Brocade SAN and server connectivity solutions featured in the MTCs include the Brocade 48000 Director, the Brocade Fibre Channel (FC) HBA, and Brocade Access Gateway. Brocade FC SAN products support standards-based N_Port ID Virtualization (NPIV), complementing Microsoft’s virtualization strategy by optimizing blade server and server virtualization solutions with Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager.
Brocade SAN and server connectivity products help customers save costs through high performance, high density, and lower power consumption. Since the inception of the Microsoft Storage Partner Program, Brocade has worked closely with Microsoft to ensure that Brocade SAN infrastructure and server connectivity solutions support Windows environments.
Additionally, the entire Brocade File Area Network (FAN) suite of products, including Brocade StorageX®, uniquely utilizes Microsoft Windows-based technologies, such as Distributed File System (DFS), Active Directory (AD), and Common Internet File Services (CIFS), to help customers better manage their Windows-based file data enterprise-wide. The Brocade suite of FAN solutions helps customers optimize server and storage assets, increase operational flexibility, improve data availability, and significantly reduce overall storage costs in heterogeneous, distributed computing environments. The solutions provide IT administrators with policies for automating many file data management tasks, including data tiering; migration and consolidation replication, and failover.
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