Brocade SAN Management Solutions Now Enable Greater Data Center Planning Efficiencies and Increased Productivity
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Latest release of Brocade SAN Health delivers enhanced support for mainframe and legacy McDATA SAN environments
SAN JOSE, Calif., July 24 / / -- Brocade(R) (NASDAQ:BRCD), the leader in networked storage solutions that help enterprises connect and manage their information, today announced that it has bolstered its Storage Area Network (SAN) management solutions with greater analytic and reporting capabilities in the Brocade SAN Health(TM) family of utilities, including full support for mainframe FICON(R) and McDATA SAN environments. Supporting more than 13,000 users to date, Brocade SAN Health Diagnostics Capture and Brocade SAN Health Professional are designed to improve operational efficiencies in both open systems and mainframe data center environments.
The enhanced Brocade SAN Health tools, downloadable at no charge, offer more comprehensive, holistic views of storage networks by discovering and inventorying devices, switches, and firmware. The new tools support increased data center productivity by automating topology mapping, which helps eliminate the time, costs, and errors when this work is performed manually. FICON administrators, for example, now can easily and quickly track even the most intricate mainframe infrastructures, including data paths to switches and storage assets, to document configurations and simplify change management.
"As the state agency that stores California's tax data, we rely on the Brocade SAN Health solution for all reporting services in our SAN environment," said Ramon Carpenter, Software Systems Specialist, California Tax Franchise Board. "It is easy to use and provides the detail and clarity we need to operate our infrastructure efficiently."
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Utilizing Brocade SAN Health Diagnostics Capture and SAN Health Professional, administrators gain more insight into their SAN operations through the capture and graphing of historical performance statistics, detailed topology diagrams, and best-practice configuration recommendations -- enabling them to make more informed evaluations of networking strategies. Additionally, administrators can take advantage of improved reporting capabilities to analyze their networks in finer detail, helping to ensure higher performance and reliability.
In addition to these free tools, administrators can utilize Brocade SAN Health Professional Change Analysis, an optional fee-based module with sophisticated change analysis capabilities and Brocade SAN Health Expert, a subscription-based Brocade Services offering featuring detailed analysis and quarterly consultations with Brocade consultants.
"By enabling customers to extract more data from their storage architectures, Brocade is helping them to maximize performance and resiliency, and better manage their assets," said Tom Buiocchi, Brocade Vice President of Worldwide Marketing. "The enhanced SAN Health utilities augment the Brocade suite of management applications -- including Enterprise Fabric Connectivity Manager, Fabric Manager, and our comprehensive portfolio of SAN and mainframe services -- helping customers meet their business objectives, SLAs, and regulatory mandates easily and economically."
For more information on Brocade mainframe and SAN services, visit www.brocade.com. All Brocade SAN Health tools and services are available at www.brocade.com/sanhealth.
About Brocade
Brocade is the leading provider of networked storage solutions that help organizations connect, share, and manage their information. Organizations that use Brocade products and services are better able to optimize their IT infrastructures and ensure compliant data management. For more information, visit the Brocade Web site at www.brocade.com or contact the company at info@brocade.com.
Brocade, the Brocade B-weave logo, Fabric OS, File Lifecycle Manager, MyView, Secure Fabric OS, SilkWorm, and StorageX are registered trademarks and the Brocade B-wing symbol and Tapestry are trademarks of Brocade Communications Systems, Inc., in the United States and/or in other countries. FICON is a registered trademark of IBM Corporation in the U.S. and other countries. All other brands, products, or service names are or may be trademarks or service marks of, and are used to identify, products or services of their respective owners.
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