BROCADE & COMPAQ DELIVER 32-NODE SERVER CLUSTERING DEMO.Brocade Communications Systems Brocade, Inc. NASDAQ: BRCD, based in Silicon Valley, designs, manufactures, and sells storage networking solutions and management applications for storage area networks (SANs) and file area networks (FANs). Inc. (BROCADE) (Nasdaq: BRCD) announced that Compaq Computer Corp. is showcasing a 32-node clustering technology demonstration based on BROCADE's high performance storage area networking infrastructure at Novell's annual BrainShare conference in Salt Lake City, Utah For ships of the United States Navy of the same name, see . Salt Lake City is the capital and the most populous city of the U.S. state of Utah. The name of the city is often shortened to Salt Lake, or its initials, S.L.C. . The technology demonstration is featured in BrainShare opening keynote address from Novel Chairman and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. Eric Schmidt and Compaq President and CEO Michael Capellas, and showcases a Compaq 32-node server cluster based on BROCADE's high-performance SilkWorm Fibre Channel fabric A Fibre Channel fabric (or Fibre Channel switched fabric, FC-SW) is a switched fabric of Fibre Channel devices enabled by a Fibre Channel switch. Fabrics are normally subdivided by Fibre Channel zoning. Each fabric has a name server and provides other services. switches. The 32-node clustering demo, developed by BROCADE, Compaq and Novell, highlights the benefits of server clustering using reliable, fault tolerant storage and server hardware from Compaq; a BROCADE Fibre Channel storage area networking foundation; and Novell NetWare Cluster Services. BROCADE SilkWorm switches connect servers and storage devices through a storage area network (SAN), providing a highly available and scalable environment for data-intensive applications and storage. Used in a clustered environment, this offers a scalable platform for applications such as highly available file and prints services, fault tolerant messaging Fault Tolerant Messaging or Failover Abstraction is the ability to transparently “failover” a call or request from one service transport protocol to another upon failure with no changes to the functional code or business logic implementation. and collaboration services, web and web application servers, and business-critical database servers. |
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