One of the things that I routinely talk to customers about is the dichotomy of life in the current state of IT. It starts with the summation: “The very cool thing going on is that the rate of change in IT has never been faster than it is today. The very scary thing going on is that the...
Guest blog by Rajiev Rajavasireddy - Vice President, Product Management & Solutions at Pure Storage In the classic film, “City Slickers”, the old, crusty cowboy named Curly gives the burned-out ad man, Mitch, a sage piece of advice, namely, the secret to life is to find your 'one...
We are very excited to showcase the Brocade© SAN portfolio, now with the latest release (April 7 th ) instrumented with automation tools based on RESTful API support on the switches. This release also included a new switch Brocade G630 and port blade FC32-64 ; delivering the highest density...
Wednesday May 10, Blog 3: NVMe over FC Fabrics This is my last blog of Dell EMC World 2017. We had yet another momentous show! I’m already looking forward to next year! I leave you with some scholarly words on NVMe over FC fabrics… It wasn’t long ago, all the rage at EMC World was FCoE! ...
In the data center, storage has experienced significant technology shifts across the board with one theme remaining constant; the customer’s unwavering expectation for performance and reliability. The impact storage has on an enterprise’s livelihood has increased over the years with gains in...
Image provided by: Mission Critical Magazine – The Adventure of Kip and Gary The variety of flash storage systems is similar to farming. Not all farms are alike. Some farms focus on crops and others on livestock. The same goes for flash storage systems. Some arrays are designed for...
The speed of flash-based storage is critical to accelerating application performance and throughput. This need is driving rapid adoption of flash in the data center. New solid-state storage devices are many orders of magnitude faster than traditional hard drives, as well as having other benefits...
You have super-fast storage but you probably aren’t getting the high speed performance and application service levels that it’s capable of delivering. Gartner says that “by upgrading the storage network, IT leaders can reduce costs. Upgrading consolidates the number of network switches, cables,...
The digital economy is driving unprecedented change in today’s IT. High performance flash storage arrays, coupled with hyperscale server virtualization, are straining the data center infrastructure in ways not anticipated even just a few years ago. So how do you make sure your critical...
Brocade launched Gen 5 Fibre Channel platforms back in May 2011 , which began a massive wave of innovation within the data center. ClearLink diagnostics and UltraScale Inter Chassis Links were introduced to simplify fabric diagnostics and scalability. Along the way, we developed the most...