Brocade, provider of data center networking solutions that help enterprises connect and manage their information, has announced the Brocade Data Center Fabric (DCF) architecture. This responds to the urgent needs of businesses to make their data centers more efficient, reliable, and adaptable.

“CIOs and data center managers face the imperative to ‘do more with less’. The Brocade DCF is designed to address this challenge,” said Michael Klayko,CEO, Brocade. “Customers have told us they need to cut costs and increase speed and flexibility, while also managing growing volumes of data. With Brocade DCF we are providing them with a framework to achieve these goals, while also leveraging their existing IT and operational resources and minimizing disruption.”

The Brocade DCF architecture simplifies data center connectivity and reduces costs by combining storage networking and server-to-server clustering into a single, converged data center infrastructure. In addition, it adapts to the dynamics of virtualized servers and storage, while accommodating expanding application workloads and the relentless growth of corporate data.

It has an application-driven architecture. It adapts and responds to the changing needs for managing applications and data. Brocade DCF utilizes the distributed intelligence of the data center. It leverages existing data center application, server, network, and storage elements to maximize functionality, flexibility, and choice for customers.

Also, the Brocade DCF is a policy-based architecture. It helps ensure that important data center services—such as data security, encryption, backup, and replication—are automatically available based on company business policies, and that they do not encumber the infrastructure when not in use.