Brocade extends storage network connectivity

Mumbai, Mar 9 (UNI) Brocade Communications Systems Inc announced the introduction of the Brocade iSCSI Gateway, a feature-rich solution specifically designed for the cost-effective storage consolidation and high performance iSCSI links to enterprise Storage Area Networks (SANs).

Designed to connect entry servers to shared storage networks, the Brocade iSCSI Gateway will enable organisations to quickly and cost effectively extend the benefits of enterprise SANs--including improved back-up, data replication, security and storage asset utilisation--across a wider range of servers and applcations, Shyam Gopal, Brocade (Country Manager-India) said.

He said the Brocade iSCSI Gateway will address two concurrent trends in the enterprise information systems. Enterprise SANs based on fibre channel standards have rapidly expanded to support mission-critical data storage and business applicatons in data centres.

At the sametime, many organisations need access to this shared storage across all server architectures and applications. By expanding SAN access via cost effective iSCSI links to entry level, IP-based servers, storage can be more efficiently managed, backed up and secured-enabling storage management best practice, he added.

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