Brocade(NASDAQ:BRCD) has announced continued innovation and leadership in storage networking to support solid-state storage system vendors who have adopted Fibre Channel as the protocol of choice to optimize application performance in enterprise storage area networking (SAN) environments. In addition to a new solid-state storage system qualification program, the company has also announced support for the launch of Gen 6 Fibre Channel by the Fibre Channel Industry Association (FCIA).
Solid-state storage vendors continue to choose Fibre Channel as the networking protocol of choice by solid state storage system vendors because of its reliability, stability and ability to optimize application performance and availability. Today, a majority of the solid-state storage system vendors are now shipping systems with Fibre Channel connectivity, including Dell, EMC, HDS, HP, IBM, NetApp, Nimbus Data, Pure Storage, Tegile Systems and Violin Memory.
“As our customer base increasingly moves to deploy solid-state storage in their SAN environments, they are demanding Fibre Channel as a requirement to meet increased application performance levels. Because of this trend, our goal is to encourage solid-state storage system vendors to complete qualification of their products in the Brocade Solid-State Ready program so that our customers, which represent the vast majority of the global installed base of storage networks, can enjoy optimum performance and seamless deployment into their existing SAN fabrics,” said Jack Rondoni, Vice-President, Data Center Storage and Solutions, Brocade.
The Brocade Solid-State Ready program provides solid-state storage system testing for proper operation across multiple fabrics, heterogeneous servers and hosts bus adapters in Brocade fabrics. The program is designed for all solid-state storage system providers.
