Connecting Applications and Storage is the goal for Brocade and Cisco
Brocade Communication Systems Inc. today announced that it is developing what it calls a Data Center Fabric architecture, a product strategy built around optimized server and storage virtualization, application services and policy-based automation that will materialize over the next six months with new products in five categories.
At its annual end-user conference in Las Vegas, Brocade said its Data Center Fabric product roadmap will revolve around applications such as continuous data protection, disaster recovery, file and block data migration across heterogeneous environments, server and storage virtualization, and encryption for data in-flight and at-rest.
Cisco Systems Inc. recently announced a similar strategy at VMworld 2007 in Las Vegas, also calling it a “Data Center Fabric” strategy. Cisco CEO John Chambers said that the data center will consist of a cloud populated by servers, storage and Cisco’s “intelligent” networking gear, all managed by Cisco and its partners — starting with VMware (see: “VMware, Cisco say data center OS is on its way”).
