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Brocade SilkWorm-Based SAN Switches Now Available from IBM
Tuesday November 23, 8:22 am ET
SilkWorm 4100 Family Technology Helps Deliver High Performance, Flexibility, and Ports On Demand Scalability to IBM(R) TotalStorage(R) Customers
SAN JOSE, Calif., Nov. 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. (Brocade®) (Nasdaq: BRCD - News), a leading provider of infrastructure solutions for Storage Area Networks (SANs), today announced that IBM has completed qualification of the Brocade SilkWorm 4100 4 Gigabit per second (Gbit/sec) SAN switch technology. IBM is now offering IBM® TotalStorage®-branded switches based on the SilkWorm family's next-generation SAN technology, featuring Ports On Demand scalability, as the IBM® TotalStorage® SAN32B-2 fabric switch within the IBM TotalStorage networked storage solution product line.
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"We're very pleased to have the IBM TotalStorage SAN32B-2 Fabric Switch, manufactured by Brocade, as part of the IBM TotalStorage portfolio of SAN solutions," said Tom Buiocchi, Vice President of Marketing at Brocade. "IBM and Brocade are both focused on providing IT professionals with cost-effective and highly reliable storage infrastructure systems to efficiently manage data throughout its lifecycle."
The TotalStorage SAN32B-2 fabric switch has been qualified for use with IBM eServer(TM) iSeries®, pSeries®, and xSeries® servers. The SilkWorm 4100 family technology provides up to twice the data transfer rate of other switches used today, plus full backward compatibility with the world's largest installed SAN infrastructure. With a "pay-as-you grow" Ports On Demand capability, the SilkWorm 4100 technology provides flexibility for midsized organizations, where it can act as the core switch in a growing fabric, and for large enterprise applications where it can feed data from the edge to a larger SAN director.
The SilkWorm 4100 family features redundant and hot-swappable power supplies and cooling fans; hot-swappable SFP media; hot code loading and activation; extensive enterprise-level security; fabric management; and ease-of-use features. Each of the up to 32 ports is auto-sensing for data link speeds of 1, 2, or 4 Gbit/sec, offering full forward and backward compatibility with the thousands of installed IBM and Brocade SANs in place today. |
