Brocade: Introducing Brocade VCS technology

Brocade VCS technology is designed to revolutionize the way data center networks are architected and how they function.

Data centers continue to grow as digital assets increase and more applications are deployed.

Businesses expect agile application deployment—in minutes, not months—to keep their competitive edge as markets and competitors become global in scale.

And data center resources such as rack space, power, and cooling are growing more scarce and costly.

For these reasons, IT organizations are aggressively deploying server virtualization in data centers to consolidate applications and improve resource utilization.

The cost savings of server virtualization resulting from increased asset utilization, higher availability, and ondemand application deployment have met the business mandate to “do more with less.”

However, the underlying limitations in current network technologies have often prevented
organizations from meeting the performance, availability, security, and mobility requirements of server virtualization.

This Brocade white paper looks at:

• Network challenges today

• Scaling Virtual Server Environments

• Application Mobility

• Network Management

• Brocade VCS Technology

• Ethernet Fabric

• Distributed Intelligence

• Logical Chassis

• Dynamic Services

• The Brocade VCS Architecture

• Brocade Data Center Vision