Brocade Silkworm 12000 Director Named 'Storage Product of the Year' by Leading European IT Publication, Computing
Wednesday October 29, 8:22 am ET
Panel of Experts Gives Top Storage Award to Brocade
SAN JOSE, Calif., Oct. 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. (Brocade®) (Nasdaq: BRCD - News), the world's leading provider of infrastructure solutions for Storage Area Networks (SANs), announced today that the Brocade SilkWorm® 12000 Director was named "Storage Product of the Year" by Computing, a leading European IT publication that each year selects leading individuals, companies and products to receive its prestigious Awards for Excellence. A panel of experts composed of end users, analysts, journalists, and IT vendors selected the SilkWorm 12000 Director based on functionality and features, performance, price, market positioning, innovation, fitness for purpose, future proofing, and integration capabilities.
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The SilkWorm 12000 Director provides a reliable and intelligent solution for deploying SANs in mission-critical enterprise environments, enabling end-users to scale storage more effectively, support continuous data availability, and reduce the overall cost of storage management. The Brocade SilkWorm 12000 Director offers ultra-high availability with no single points of failure, redundant and hot-pluggable components, non-disruptive software upgrades (hot code load and activation), and also provides FICON® support for IBM mainframes, enabling end users to standardize their SAN infrastructure across mainframe and open systems environments.
In its 30th year, the Computing Awards for Excellence recognize and reward the highest standards of individual and collective achievement. "We are pleased that the SilkWorm 12000 Director has been selected as Storage Product of the Year," said Ian Whiting, Brocade Vice President of Europe. "The SilkWorm 12000 Director provides a highly available, flexible foundation for building and growing enterprise-class SANs, ensuring the highest levels of investment protection, security, performance, scalability, and efficiency."
Brocade Fabric OS, the embedded operating system included in the SilkWorm 12000 Director, provides Advanced Fabric Services -- such as ISL Trunking, Advanced Performance Monitoring, and Advanced Zoning -- that are designed to improve the investment protection, security, performance, scalability, and efficiency of Brocade SAN fabrics. Enterprise-class capabilities of the Brocade Fabric OS include:
Enhanced High Availability, for non-disruptive firmware activation and enhanced fail over capabilities.
Simplified Management through Fabric Manager, the Brocade fabric management software that configures, monitors, provisions, and manages multiple switches, SANs, and HBAs from a single console. Fabric Manager 4.0 -- the next generation Brocade SAN fabric management software -- includes new features such as integrated HBA management, advanced security management, and call home capabilities.
Advanced SAN Security through Secure Fabric OS -- the industry's only SAN security product that offers centralized management of SAN security policies and protects the SAN by using enterprise-class security methods, including digital certificates and digital signatures, multiple levels of password protection, encryption of management information such as passwords, Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)-based authentication, and 1024-bit encryption of passwords. |
