Brocade Expands OEM Relationships With Huawei in China

Highlights:

• Expands OEM relationship with Huawei to include Brocade Gen 5 FC directors and fixed-port switches to complement embedded switch offerings for blade servers
• Brocade SAN fabrics create a reliable foundations between servers and Huawei storage arrays
  

Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. announced continued momentum for FC SANs within China following an expansion of the company’s relationship with Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

Brocade Gen 5 FC director and fixed-port switches are being sold by Huawei and its network of channel partners in addition to the embedded FC switches integrated with Huawei x86-based blade servers. Switches are integrated and qualified with Huawei OceanStor enterprise servers and storage arrays for mission-critical workloads.

Brocade SAN switches deliver high levels of throughput to maximize application performance by eliminating network bottlenecks. They also include Brocade Fabric Vision technology which can maximize uptime and simplifies SAN deployment and management while providing visibility and insight into the storage network.

“China’s robust economy has created a tremendous growth market for networked FC storage,” said Jack Rondoni, VP, storage networking, Brocade. “We are excited about our expanded relationship with Huawei to help our mutual customers leverage our industry leading SAN hardware and software technologies to maximize application performance and availability, especially for their flash-enabled storage systems.“

OceanStor storage systems are setting a new benchmark for high-end storage to provide advanced data services for mission-critical workloads. Solutions featuring OceanStor storage and Brocade SAN fabrics are being sold by Huawei into various industry sectors such as government, finance, carriers, energy, transportation and manufacturing–to meet the needs across a variety of applications such as large-scale database OLTP/OLAP and cloud computing.

“The majority of our customers choose FC to support their mission-critical applications which made adding Brocade directors and switches a logical next step for our long-term relationship,” said Dengxing, VP of storage product line, Huawei. “As our customers continue to require flash-enabled storage for their environments, the Gen 5 Brocade SAN hardware is critical to help ensure there are no bottlenecks in the infrastructure in order to derive the full value of our architectures.“

Embedded switches for Huawei servers and Brocade SAN fabric solutions are available from Huawei and its network of channel partners.