Broadcom Inc. (NASDAQ: AVGO)
today announced the availability of the industry’s first Gen 7
64Gb/s Fibre Channel switching platforms— the Brocade X7 Directors
and G720 Switch, that are foundational infrastructure for the
on-demand data center. Additionally, the company today announced
the industry’s first 64Gb/s Fibre Channel optical transceiver, that
is being qualified for use in Brocade switches and Emulex adapters,
for end-to-end Gen 7 performance.
Brocade Gen 7 Fibre Channel combines
unmatched performance, powerful analytics and advanced automation
capabilities to enable an autonomous SAN. New 64Gb/s speed and 50
percent lower latency, powers the network for storage innovations
like NVMe flash arrays. Gen 7 also adds new self-learning,
self-optimizing and self-healing capabilities to automate SAN
management. With the launch of Gen 7 Fibre Channel switching
platforms, Broadcom is demonstrating its commitment to develop
innovative Fibre Channel technology for the most trusted network
for storage.
“Broadcom continues to lead the market
and drive innovation with the launch of the industry’s first
end-to-end Gen 7 Fibre Channel portfolio,” said Jack Rondoni,
senior vice president and general manager, Brocade Storage
Networking division, Broadcom. “Brocade Gen 7 harnesses the power
of 64Gb/s switching technology and transforms current storage
networks with autonomous SAN capabilities, simplifying management,
and significantly reducing operational costs.”
Technology is evolving at an
incredible pace and businesses are demanding more from their IT
resources and infrastructure. With the rapid adoption of flash
storage and the ramp up of NVMe-based storage, organizations will
move more data through a SAN than ever before. This requires a
network capable of unleashing performance and maximizing ROI for
storage investments. Brocade Gen 7 performance is powered by 64Gb/s
line-rate speed along with a 50 percent reduction in latency. This
ensures that the network will never be the bottleneck for current
and future storage technologies.
Brocade Gen 7 today also introduces a
range of autonomous technologies to simplify and automate
management. A self-learning SAN leverages comprehensive data
collection with powerful analytics to quickly understand the impact
of current or trending problems. The self-optimizing capability
utilizes actionable intelligence to automate network management and
maximize performance. Learning traffic behavior enables the network
to make smarter decisions on traffic prioritization, congestion
management and notification to ensure optimal network performance
for applications and storage.
A self-healing SAN raises the bar for
network availability through automatic avoidance and recovery
features. When potential disruptions or outages are detected, the
network will automatically mitigate or resolve issues without
intervention. These new autonomous technologies will greatly
simplify SAN management and enable unparalleled network performance
and reliability.
With almost three decades in the data
center, Fibre Channel continues to be an essential piece of most
enterprises’ critical storage infrastructure due to its
industry-leading reliability and long-lasting investment
protection. With a foundation of six-nines availability and
multi-generational compatibility, Fibre Channel continues to add
new capabilities and value to address the evolving needs of storage
customers.
“The enterprise storage industry is
already well down the migration path to NVMe-based storage systems,
and by 2021 over 50 percent of enterprise storage revenues driven
by latency-sensitive primary workloads will come from the sale of
these types of systems,” said Eric Burgener, research vice
president, Infrastructure Systems, Platforms and Technologies
Group, IDC. “To get the full performance benefits of NVMe in
these systems requires NVMe over FC host connections, and more and
more enterprises will be installing these types of extremely low
latency networks as they deploy the next- generation applications
needed in the digital era. NVMe over FC is the most efficient
network transport protocol for these high performance networks,
already broadly deployed in commercial environments today, and Gen
7 technology will enable the performance at scale these workloads
demand.”
“IT transformation starts with an
intelligent core and enables businesses to deliver exceptional
customer experiences for the on-demand data center,” said Dan
McConnell, SVP, product management, Digital Infrastructure, Hitachi
Vantara. “This cannot be accomplished without a modern and agile IT
infrastructure that delivers information to customers faster with
greater insights than ever before. The world’s highest performing
storage solutions deserve the world’s highest performing network.
As such, our Hitachi VSP 5000 Series coupled with the new Brocade
Gen 7 Fibre Channel delivers leading performance to take maximum
advantage of low latency, high performance fabrics.”
Brocade X7 Directors: Build a Foundation
for the Autonomous SAN
This modern, highly-scalable Gen 7 director is a modular
building block, purpose-built to power large-scale storage
environments. With 64Gb/s speed and 50 percent lower latency
compared to the previous generation, Brocade X7 directors maximizes
the performance of NVMe storage and high-transaction workloads,
eliminating IO bottlenecks and unleashing the full performance of
next-generation storage. Brocade X7 Directors provide up to 384
64Gb/s line rate ports or up to 512 32Gb/s line rate ports,
enabling organizations to scale more devices, applications and
workloads.
Brocade G720 Switch: Scale Out the
Autonomous SAN
This building-block switch maximizes performance and simplifies
deployment, configuration and management of SAN resources. The
Brocade G720 Switch provides 56 64Gb/s line rate ports in a 1RU
design and 50 percent lower switching latency compared to previous
generations to maximize performance of NVMe storage.
Availability
Brocade X7 Directors and Brocade G720 Switches are now
available. Please contact your local Broadcom sales representative
for more information. The products are available through Dell
Technologies and Hitachi Vantara. Other OEM partners will begin
shipping throughout the next several quarters. Visit
www.broadcom.com/brocade to learn more about Brocade Fibre Channel
networking solutions.
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Jeff Hoogenboom, Vice President & General Manager,
Emulex Connectivity Division, Broadcom “Customers want
solutions that help them reduce the operational cost and complexity
of running storage networks, but at the same time require extreme
reliability and the ability to scale as business priorities change.
Broadcom’s end-to-end 64 Gb/s autonomous SAN
technology delivers the analytics and advanced automation
needed to make smarter decisions and simplify
operations.”
Drew Schulke, VP of Networking, Dell
Technologies“With capabilities to self-learn,
self-optimize and self-heal, the Connectrix B-Series
network provides the performance, availability and reliability
enterprises need today. Through Dell Technologies’ E-Lab, the
industry’s premier interoperability lab, these new Connectrix SAN
products have been tested with our storage arrays and servers to
ensure our customers can confidently deploy them within their
modern infrastructure to meet the demands of the next data
era.”
Marcus Schneider, Head of Product Management Data Center
Product Sales Europe, Fujitsu“Brocade’s Gen 7 Fibre
Channel products with new autonomous and analytics capabilities are
great for giving Fujitsu ETERNUS Storage customers the performance,
efficiency and reliability today’s IT environments demand.
In addition, as customers increasingly adopt flash and NVMe
storage, they will benefit from even lower latency and higher
performance.”
Chris Powers, VP, Collaborative
Platform Development, Hewlett Packard
Enterprise“Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and Brocade, a
Broadcom company, have partnered together for many years, and
continue to collaborate to bring to market new technologies for the
modern data center. HPE supports the Brocade Gen 7 technology and
believes it will deliver value, performance and reliability for
modern storage platforms. Gen 7 will be a valuable platform for
enabling HPE storage, and we look forward to having this robust set
of products in the HPE storage networking portfolio.”
Eric Herzog, CMO, IBM “For over 20
years, IBM and Brocade, a Broadcom company, have collaborated to
develop Fibre Channel and FICON storage solutions for our clients.
With the release of Brocade's Gen 7 SAN technology combined with
IBM FlashSystem and DS8900F storage arrays, our on-premises and
hybrid-cloud solutions will continue to address the critical
performance, automation, and resiliency requirements for our
clients’ data centers.”
Kamran Amini, Vice President & General Manager,
Server, Storage and Software Defined Infrastructure, Lenovo Data
Center Group“As a leading provider of all-flash array
storage and fully enabled end-to-end NVMe solutions, Lenovo along
with Broadcom, and our extensive partnership focused on innovative
solutions, are delivering the next-generation SAN switching Gen 7
Fibre Channel technology to help customers accelerate their ability
to gain insights from business-critical data,” said Kamran Amini,
vice president and general manager, Server, Storage and Software
Defined Infrastructure, Lenovo Data Center Group. “Lenovo’s
ThinkSystem Server and Storage solutions will utilize the new
Brocade SAN switching to deliver integrated infrastructure
solutions that will dramatically improve application performance
with enterprise support.”
Kim Stevenson, SVP, Foundational Data Services Business
Unit, NetApp“Global customers rely on NetApp’s innovative,
highly available Fibre Channel SAN solutions to realize maximum
performance of their mission critical applications. NetApp and
Broadcom provided the industry’s first end-to-end NVMe/FC modern
SAN with cloud-connected storage, enabling customers to realize
operational and performance efficiencies across their entire hybrid
cloud infrastructure. In conjunction with NetApp’s leading SAN
storage platforms, Brocade’s new Gen 7 Fibre Channel portfolio
will further advance NetApp’s delivery of leading SAN solutions to
power customers’ most demanding enterprise SAN workloads.”
Scott Baker, VP Flash Array Product Marketing, Pure
Storage“Brocade, a Broadcom company, and Pure Storage’s
collaboration advances the modern data experience by delivering an
ultra-low latency storage network architecture to the
industry-leading Flash Array all-NVMe portfolio, resulting in
consistent and predictable workload performance and improved data
mobility. We are proud to bring Brocade’s Gen 7 switching platforms
to our customers to meet their ever-changing business requirements
and deliver a greater return on investment.”
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