The two companies have been working together to enhance interoperability between Brocade SAN infrastructure and CA’s open storage management and data protection solutions. As a result, CA and Brocade customers are now able to protect their business-critical data and better manage the storage devices that contain this data.
CA’s storage management software solutions represent a new generation of world class SAN management applications that will give our mutual customers advanced protection and management of their enterprise data, said Jack Cuthbert, Brocade vice president of Worldwide Sales, Marketing, and Support Services. The CA solutions will leverage the rich features of Brocade’s distributed Fabric Operating System to expand the SAN management options available to Brocade customers. We look forward to working with CA as a Fabric Access Partner, enabling our customers to take full advantage of the advanced fabric services and features of the Brocade Intelligent Fabric Services Architecture.
Because security is such an important aspect of both enterprise and SAN management, Brocade and CA are working together to ensure that their security development efforts are integrated and complement each other. As SANs scale and storage environments are used by multiple independent customers or tenants, strict security measures to preserve the SAN will be required. CA’s world-class eTrust security solutions will complement the Brocade Secure Fabric Operating System, a core element of the Brocade fabric architecture, which successfully leverages many security functions from the IP networking world and applies them to both Fibre Channel and to storage in general.
We are pleased to support the Brocade Intelligent Fabric Services Architecture, which defines the requirements for enterprise class storage networking, and to work with Brocade to deliver next generation SAN solutions to benefit our mutual customers, said Phil Treide, vice president, storage solutions, CA. Through this integration, CA brings world class infrastructure management technology to the SAN at the storage device, network and security levels. As SANs are deployed more widely across the enterprise landscape, it becomes even more vital to provide the best data protection, storage and security management options possible to our customers.
CA will use Brocade Fabric Access, the Application Programming Interface (API), to the Brocade Fabric Operating System (Fabric OS) to provide enhanced SAN management capabilities for its data protection and storage management software solutions, which help customers protect, monitor, control, report, trend, and automate data storage in both distributed and centralized environments across different protocols and topologies including Storage Area Networks (SANs).
Through Fabric Access, CA gains entry to the value added management capabilities and services of the Brocade Fabric OS, a distributed operating system for Brocade-based SANs that includes advanced fabric services such as Brocade Inter Switch Link (ISL) Trunking, Brocade Frame Filtering, performance analysis, and zoning. CA will use this information to add value for its customers by delivering advanced data protection and open storage management solutions.
The Brocade Fabric OS, the key applications enabler within the Brocade Intelligent Fabric Architecture which was also announced today by Brocade–allows companies to create and scale highly resilient multi-switch SANs and easily manage the SAN infrastructure. The Fabric OS also provides a feature-rich platform for SAN-designed applications and offers advanced features for proactive SAN management and monitoring, enabling applications to dynamically discover physical components in a SAN and monitor SAN fabric resources. .
Brocade SilkWorm fabric switches provide the world’s leading networking foundation for SANs. Using Brocade SilkWorm switches, customers can connect servers with storage devices through a SAN, creating a highly reliable and scalable environment for storage applications. Brocade switches are based on the Brocade Fabric Operating System.
CA delivers end-to-end eBusiness solutions for the complete management of storage resources in businesses of all sizes. These industry-leading solutions are designed to ensure that mission-critical storage systems and the applications that rely on them are always available-anytime, anywhere, enterprise-wide, from laptops to the mainframe.
