Brocade and fluidOps Partner

Brocade
Communications Systems, Inc. and fluid
Operations AG (fluidOps), a provider of cloud and data management solutions
based on semantic technologies, announced the completion of a technology
integration project between Brocade and fluidOps to simplify and automate
deployment, management and automation of EMC VSPEX Proven Infrastructure
solutions for SMBs.

Specifically, the combination of fluidOps eCloudManager and Brocade VDX
Ethernet fabric and FC SAN switches has been integrated and validated
by both companies to achieve cloud automation and
network management services for a complete VSPEX
solution. Brocade networking integrated with fluidOps eCloudManager
allows customers to achieve new levels of operational efficiency by providing
complete infrastructure management to enable simple, efficient and flexible
virtualization solutions that scale to meet their needs.

The results of the joint integration activities, available for production
deployments, has been demonstrated at EMC World and at the Global
Partner Summit.

"As increasing numbers of SMBs make the transition toward virtualization and the
cloud, they are deploying EMC VSPEX solutions to mitigate the challenges
associated with managing IT infrastructures and ensuring application
availability," said Jason Nolet, VP of the data center networking group
at Brocade. "Our integration efforts
make this considerably easier, especially for businesses with limited IT staffs
and resources, by enabling eCloudManager and Brocade network solutions to
provide a complete data center view, including servers, networking, storage,
hypervisors, applications and business resources."

"Through our partnership with
Brocade, we have achieved unprecedented unified management capabilities that
allow customers to extract the highest value out of their EMC VSPEX solutions
by providing all of the components and workflows needed for IT to become a key
enabler for business success," said Dr. Andreas Eberhart, MD at fluid. "The result is
significant cost and time savings through automated operations that reduce, and
in some cases eliminate, manual tasks and processes."

Simplicity in Operating EMC VSPEX Proven
Infrastructure
VSPEX was designed with the purpose of offering
customers a virtual infrastructure package to meet the challenge of
transitioning their legacy IT environments into an agile, automated,
cloud-ready infrastructure. With a modular design, VSPEX enables customers to
accelerate their IT transformation and consists of partner hypervisor, server
and network technologies along with EMC storage and backup solutions.

Acting as a unified management platform on top of VSPEX, eCloudManager, a
VSPEX Labs validated solution, allows SMBs to utilize out-of-the-box
functionalities for the management and orchestration of their IT environments.
Customers can leverage the extensibility of the platform to perform integration
and automation tasks, and to build new solutions on top. By applying semantic
technologies and following a ‘Linked Data’ approach to data center
management, eCloudManager enables the integration and correlation of data from
disparate data sources, allows for the automation of data center operations and
supports collaboration between various departments.

In any virtualization or cloud deployment, the network plays a critical role in
the delivery and migration of data between VMs. Brocade cloud-optimized
networking technologies are designed to integrate and extend virtual compute
resources in multi-vendor environments to help increase network performance,
utilization and resiliency. Tested by EMC for interoperability and featured in
VSPEX Labs, a variety of Brocade networking products can be selected
for a customer’s VSPEX, including Brocade VDX
switches, Brocade ICX switches and FC SAN switches.