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Brocade Unveils New VDX 8770 Switch Delivering Unmatched Scale, Performance and Automation for Private and Public Cloud Networks
Published Sep 18, 2012
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Brocade, the industry leader in fabric networking, announced a revolutionary switching platform, the Brocade® VDX® 8770 Switch, along with VCS® Fabric technology enhancements that take data center network simplicity, efficiency and resiliency to a new scale. The Brocade VDX 8770 is designed for enterprises and service providers striving to both simplify and scale-out their data center infrastructure in order to accelerate new service introduction and drive innovation, while also lowering costs.
With more than 700 customers who have already installed Brocade VDX switches, Brocade is building on the success of its VCS fabric-enabled switch portfolio with the addition of the modular Brocade VDX 8770 Switch. The newest family member is built to support the largest data centers, delivering unprecedented simplicity and automation along with massive scalability and performance—all while offering superior investment protection.
Simplicity and Automation
The Brocade VDX 8770 and VCS Fabric technology deliver a radically simplified data center network. Designed specifically for highly virtualized environments, Ethernet fabrics built on VCS Fabric technology accelerate application deployment and enable faster virtual machine (VM) migrations through zero -touch VM discovery, VM mobility and VM port configuration migration. Using VCS fabrics, customers can manage dozens of switches as a single logical device, dramatically reducing operational costs. They can also save installation time as new switches self-provision when they are connected to the fabric.
Scale and Performance
With today’s virtualized and cloud-centric data center architectures, application performance is highly dependent on the efficiency and utilization of the network infrastructure. VM density per server is also rapidly increasing as customers seek to maximize server utilization. To support these requirements, they need a high-performance network that can scale out on demand to address immediate business needs.
The Brocade VDX 8770 provides unprecedented fabric scalability for the world’s largest data center environments, enabling customers to expand a single VCS fabric up to 8000 switch ports with up to 384,000 VMs attached to the fabric—20 times the scalability of the leading competitor. Designed for today’s real-time applications, the Brocade VDX 8770 also delivers the industry’s lowest port-to-port latency at 3.5 microseconds across all 1 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE), 10 GbE and 40 GbE ports—half the latency of the nearest competitor.
Continued Leadership in Ethernet Fabrics
In 2010, Brocade began articulating a vision for transforming networking to support the next-generation cloud-optimized data center. Later that year, Brocade delivered on the first phase of this vision by pioneering the Ethernet fabric category with the introduction of Brocade VCS Fabric technology and the Brocade VDX 6720 VCS-enabled switch. In 2011, Brocade delivered on the second phase of its vision by expanding the Brocade VDX family with the Brocade VDX 6710 and 6730 switches. Continuing the revolution of the data center networking and Ethernet fabric category, the introduction of the Brocade VDX 8770 represents the third phase of Brocade’s vision. This vision focuses on helping the largest-scale data centers utilize VCS fabrics that deliver superior automation, resiliency and efficiency to support the most advanced private and public cloud environments.
“Ethernet Fabrics are the key technology component of fabric-based infrastructures. As organizations seek to maximize efficiencies in the data center, enable greater agility, and optimize the user experience, they are moving to more scalable, flatter network topologies to drive higher performance and lower latency across the entire network. For Service Providers, fabrics create a more flexible architecture that allows a broad range of services to be delivered to a large customer set with diverse requirements. For enterprises, fabric architectures simplify network operations and support virtualization by breaking the physical ties between application servers and the network topology,” Mark Fabbi, vice president, distinguished analyst, Gartner.
Pricing and Availability
The Brocade VDX 8770 is orderable now. U.S. list price starts at $65,000 ($833/10G port). The Brocade VDX 8770 and other Brocade networking solutions are available direct, through Brocade channel partners and via Brocade Network Subscription.
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VMD - [Virtual Marketing Department]
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