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Brocade also announced expanded monitoring capabilities through Brocade Fabric
Vision(TM) technology with the availability of VM Insight. VM Insight delivers
proactive visibility into the health and performance of individual virtual machines
(VMs) to help administrators uncover issues before applications are affected.

Digital transformation, the rapid adoption of flash storage and the emergence of
Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) are driving new requirements for a modern
infrastructure that can optimize application performance and adapt to evolving data
center needs. To meet those needs, Gen 6 Fibre Channel SAN solutions are designed to
provide digital enterprises with superior performance, non-stop availability and
built-in NVMe capabilities for all-flash data centers.

The Brocade G610 is an entry-level switch designed for a variety of environments
ranging from small shared storage fabrics to network edge deployments in data
centers. It offers high performance, proven reliability and affordable access to
industry-leading Gen 6 Fibre Channel storage networking technology. To support their
ever-evolving storage environments, organizations can start with eight ports and
grow on demand with up to 24 ports per switch. In addition, the Brocade G610 switch
is easy to use and install, with a point-and-click user interface that simplifies
deployment to save time.

"The use of all-flash arrays for consolidation of mission-critical primary storage
workloads is increasing rapidly, and by 2020 IDC predicts that these types of
systems will drive over 80 percent of all primary storage revenues," said Eric
Burgener, research director, storage, IDC. "Flash’s ability to support much denser
workload consolidation is demanding higher-performance host connections, and
Brocade’s new Gen 6 Fibre Channel portfolio provides that bandwidth with a proven,
trusted and highly secure protocol."

"Whole-brain imaging is critical to our research but advances in imaging and
microscopy place new demands on our network and storage infrastructure every day,"
said Jake Carroll, senior information technology manager of research, The University
of Queensland’s Queensland Brain Institute. "Brocade Gen 6 Fibre Channel solutions
massively boost data transfer speeds enabling scientists to maximize the benefits of
increased image resolution and high data sampling rates."

The entire Brocade Gen 6 product family with Fabric Vision technology now includes
VM Insight to help organizations achieve greater visibility into VM-level
application performance. Using integrated sensors, this new capability allows
administrators to monitor VM statistics and quickly identify abnormal VM behaviors.
This facilitates troubleshooting and fault isolation while providing intelligence
for early detection of application performance degradations to help support critical
service level agreements. VM Insight extends and complements the automated
monitoring, diagnostic and management capabilities enabled by Fabric Vision
technology.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is shipping the Brocade G610 switch today. "The ability
to protect, analyze and transport data reliably and affordably is an enormous
competitive advantage," said Marty Lans, senior director and general manager of
Storage Connectivity, Hewlett Packard Enterprise. "The combination of HPE 3PAR and
Brocade Gen 6 Fibre Channel solutions has the potential to transform businesses of
all shapes and sizes, enabling them to derive maximum benefit from investments in
technologies like flash, NVMe, cloud and virtualization. The introduction of the new
SN3600B Fibre Channel switch bolsters our current Gen 6 Fibre Channel portfolio with
a new offering to put Fibre Channel SAN within reach of even more customers."

Availability

The Brocade G610 switch with Gen 6 Fibre Channel technology is available now through
Brocade and its channel partners. Other Brocade OEM partners plan to start shipping
the new switch in the second quarter of 2017. VM Insight is available today.