Brocade a leading data center fabric networking solutions company, today announced a new extension platform that enables enterprises to achieve significantly shorter recovery points and faster recovery times for restoring data and applications in the event of a disaster, or when performing routine backup and replication tasks over unreliable Wide Area Network (WAN) links.
The new Disaster Recovery (DR) platform also extends Brocade’s Fabric Vision technology between data centers to automate monitoring, increase insight, and simplify troubleshooting over distance to automatically detect WAN anomalies, help ensure performance, and avoid unplanned downtime.
According to IDC, disaster recovery requirements have become increasingly stringent for their mission-critical applications, with 84% of enterprises having RPOs of less than an hour and 78% having RTOs of less than four hours.
“With stored data expected to grow at a 44% CAGR over the next five years, enterprises are demanding that their recovery solutions meet ever higher standards in keeping data available amid a wide variety of increasingly frequent natural and man-made disasters,” said Eric Burgener, Research Director for storage at IDC. “Furthermore, end users are expecting to access their data on a 7×24 basis, forcing enterprises to meet their demands for “always on” application services.”
To address these challenges and to provide near-zero downtime and continuous application availability, Brocade has expanded its Gen 5 Fibre Channel SAN portfolio with the addition of the Brocade 7840 Extension Switch, which delivers a six-fold increase in performance, along with unprecedented availability and simplified management between remote data centers. The solution also doubles the performance, at half the cost, compared to WAN optimisation appliances that are often mismatched when deployed as a DR alternative.
In addition, the company also announced the Brocade FC16-64, a new port blade for the Brocade DCX 8510 Director that provides the industry’s highest density and most energy-efficient connectivity to maximise system utilisation and reduce both capital and operating costs.
The Brocade 7840 Extension Switch, extended Fabric Vision technology, and the Brocade FC16-64 port blade for the Brocade DCX 8510 will be available in the country before the end of this calendar quarter through select Brocade OEM partners, including EMC, HDS, and others.
