LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Brocade® (Nasdaq: BRCD) today announced several enhancements
to the Brocade ServerIron ADX Series of Application Delivery Controllers
to help organizations realize the promise of on-demand, elastic data
center computing.
First, Brocade announced the new Brocade Application Resource Broker
software module that provides visibility into application performance
across the network and virtual machine (VM) infrastructures and helps
ensure application service level agreements (SLA) are met by dynamically
allocating additional resources to service increases in application load.
Second, Brocade unveiled the new Brocade ServerIron ADX 1008-1 model,
which adds an entry-level platform to the ServerIron ADX 1000 Series.
The Brocade ServerIron ADX 1000 Series features software-enabled
capacity on-demand that allows organizations to double or quadruple
device performance without hardware upgrades. Together, these
innovations enable a more agile application infrastructure, promoting
increased business responsiveness, and optimized use of costly
application infrastructure.
Third, Brocade introduced the ServerIron ADX software release v12.2,
which helps enterprises and service providers take advantage of
IPv6-to-IPv4 gateway functionality for application delivery to IPv6
clients, Layer 7 switching and application delivery services for the
Financial Information eXchange (FIX) protocol, and predictive load
balancing functionality based on real-time application performance
measurements.
“For large organizations requiring dynamic network capacity in their
VMware production environments, a solution like the Brocade Application
Resource Broker can help network administrators automate the usage of
virtual IT application resources,” said Zeus Kerravala, senior vice
president, global enterprise and consumer research, Yankee Group. “This
functionality helps alleviate administrator intervention and identify
real-time application performance to improve the ability to deliver on
SLAs and help increase efficiency.”
The Brocade Application Resource Broker
The Brocade Application Resource Broker is a new software application
that gives administrators increased visibility into application
performance in virtualized data centers and private clouds, as well as
on-demand provisioning and de-provisioning of application resources
based on user demand. It offers a rich set of monitoring,
decision-making and application-centric reporting features delivered as
a plug-in for the VMware vSphere™ administrative interface.
By leveraging the application performance metrics from the Brocade
ServerIron ADX, combined with server and VM-specific load statistics
from VMware vCenter™ Server, the Brocade Application Resource Broker
determines in real-time if application resources are meeting user
demand. Using its policy-based decision engine, the Application Resource
Broker can log events and alert administrators to potentially inadequate
application resources. Using those same policies, it can automatically
provision additional application VM instances and application delivery
controller resources to service user demand, and de-provision the VM
instances and resources when demand subsides.
Capacity On-Demand for Brocade ADX
1000 Series
To further support the need for on-demand services, Brocade announced
capacity on-demand for the Brocade ServerIron ADX 1000 Series, which
provides the ability to use simple software-based license keys to double
or quadruple performance, enable additional Ethernet interfaces, or
activate features such as SSL offload and global server load balancing
(GSLB). In addition, Brocade has extended the ServerIron ADX 1000 Series
with the introduction of the entry-level Brocade ServerIron ADX 1008-1.
Leveraging this new 1U platform and capacity on-demand, customers can
now deploy the Brocade ServerIron ADX 1008-1 and upgrade system capacity
and feature set as their business grows, without the need for any
hardware upgrades.
“According to independent third party testing, the Brocade ServerIron
ADX Series of application delivery controllers has established Brocade
as a performance leader in the application delivery market,” said Jason
Nolet, vice president, Application Delivery Products Division, Brocade.
“Now, Brocade is enabling application delivery for virtualized data
centers and private clouds through innovations in capacity on-demand and
the Brocade Application Resource Broker. These new capabilities directly
address the customer’s need for a more agile and dynamic data center,
optimizing network and application resources based on user demand.”
Pricing and Availability
The Brocade ServerIron ADX 1008-1 is available today starting at $12,995
USD. The Brocade Application Resource Broker and additional software
release capabilities for the Brocade ServerIron ADX Series will be
generally available in the second calendar quarter of 2010.
As the growing usage of on-demand applications and cloud computing are
driving the need for business partners to focus on the delivery of
solutions and services within a virtualized environment, Brocade’s
application delivery portfolio of products present a unique value
proposition for channel partners. All products are available through
dedicated Brocade partners.
Video: Announcement Overview
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1IMbBuCQCE
Photos
Tolly Test Report
http://www.brocade.com/downloads/documents/research_and_test_reports/Tolly210101BrocadeADX1000SSLPerformance.pdf
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About Brocade
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