Brocade Joins Forces with Oracle to Provide Multiple Solution Sets for Oracle Database and Application Suites.Comprehensive Networking Portfolio Supports Tight Connectivity and Interoperability with Oracle Products SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif. -- Brocade([R]) (Nasdaq:BRCD), a member of the Oracle PartnerNetwork, today unveiled a broad set of technology solutions developed specifically for use with Oracle database and application suites to enable the efficient and reliable delivery of mission-critical business systems functions. Through extensive collaborative efforts with multiple leading technology partners, Brocade and Oracle have jointly defined and tested vendor-agnostic, multiprotocol technology solution sets designed to address the needs of small to medium businesses (SMBs) and midsize to large enterprises. Recognizing Brocade as a leading end-to-end networking vendor with a complete portfolio of products to support the rigorous connectivity requirements for Oracle applications and databases, Oracle worked extensively with Brocade to develop multiple solution sets for data warehousing See data warehouse. data warehousing - data warehouse , business applications, and virtualization An umbrella term for enhancing a computer's ability to do work. Following are the ways virtualization is used. Hardware Virtualization Partitioning the computer's memory into separate and isolated "virtual machines" simulates multiple machines within one physical computer. deployments that are now included in Oracle reference configurations. This announcement bolsters Brocade's strategy of becoming the network infrastructure provider of choice for major IT systems vendors, such as Oracle, whose business software systems support hundreds of thousands of enterprise customers worldwide. "Oracle is the largest business software company and Brocade delivers one of the industry's broadest application delivery, Ethernet, and storage network portfolios," said Judson Althoff, senior vice president, Global Alliances and Channels at Oracle. "We work together to deliver solutions to our customers so that we can provide proven and tested configurations to allow customers to make decisions with confidence." "The requirements of IT today are driving technology vendors to collaborate closely to drive innovation and deliver tightly coupled See tight coupling. , best-in-class solutions to end users," said Zeus Kerravala, senior vice president, Yankee Group (the Yankee Group, Boston, MA, www.yankeegroup.com) A major market research, analysis and consulting firm founded in 1970 by Howard Anderson. It provides general consulting and strategic planning in the computer and communications field. . "The collaboration between Brocade and Oracle as announced today exemplifies this trend, with these two technology leaders delivering highly reliable, heterogeneous networking-based business solutions that help their customers maximize their investments in both companies." Since 2005, Brocade has been working with Oracle to connect applications within the data center. With the expansion of the Brocade networking product portfolio to include a full range of IP networking equipment, Brocade has been able to increase its relevance in multiple Oracle environments and platforms, resulting in the development of a variety of solutions that span distributed IT infrastructures. Databases and Data Warehousing Brocade industry-leading storage area network (SAN) switches have been incorporated into multiple pre-tested Oracle design configurations to create high-performance, fully optimized database and data warehousing solutions: * Brocade 5300 switches and Brocade host bus adapters (HBAs) combined with EMC Symmetrix The Symmetrix is EMC's flagship enterprise storage array. There have been seven generations of Symmetrix hardware, with the first appearing in 1994 and the latest introduced in 2006. V-Max storage systems with enterprise flash drives are designed to optimize Oracle OLTP (OnLine Transaction Processing) See transaction processing and OLCP. OLTP - On-Line Transaction Processing throughput to meet the stringent performance demands of large enterprise customers. * Brocade 5100 switches and Brocade HBAs combined with EMC (1) (EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA, www.emc.com) The leading supplier of storage products for midrange computers and mainframes. Founded in 1979 by Richard J. Egan and Roger Marino, EMC has developed advanced storage and retrieval technologies for the world's largest companies. CLARiiON CX4 storage systems with enterprise flash drives are designed to optimize Oracle OLTP throughput for midsized enterprises or departments. Moreover, Brocade 5100 and 5300 switches coupled with EMC CLARiiON CX4 and Symmetrix V-Max Storage systems deliver proven and scalable data warehouses. * Brocade 300, 5100, and 5300 SAN switches or Brocade DCX DCX DaimlerChrysler Ag (stock symbol) DCX Dixie Chicks (American country rock band) DCX Multipage PCX (file extension/format) DCX Double Convex DCX Double Charge Exchange ([R]) backbones paired with Sun Fire servers or Sun SPARC Enterprise The SPARC Enterprise series is a range of UNIX servers co-developed by Sun Microsystems and Fujitsu Computer Systems. They are marketed and sold by Sun Microsystems, Fujitsu Computer Systems, and Fujitsu Siemens Computers. servers and Sun Storage systems are optimized for Oracle data warehouse workloads ranging from 6.04 TB to 205.44 TB. Business Intelligence and Business Applications The end-to-end portfolio of Brocade networking products helps optimize business intelligence solutions that fully scale to meet growing business requirements and reduce total cost of ownership (TCO (1) (Total Cost of Ownership) The cost of using a computer. It includes the cost of the hardware, software and upgrades as well as the cost of the inhouse staff and/or consultants that provide training and technical support. See ROI. ). These solutions include: * The Brocade ServerIron([R]) Application Delivery Controller provides load balancing The fine tuning of a computer system, network or disk subsystem in order to more evenly distribute the data and/or processing across available resources. For example, in clustering, load balancing might distribute the incoming transactions evenly to all servers, or it might redirect them capabilities and combines with the Brocade FastIron([R]) LS for IP/Ethernet connectivity to form the Oracle reference architecture for optimized business intelligence application-to-disk using the Sun Storage 7410 Unified Storage The capability of combining different data formats such as files, folders, contacts and e-mail messages into collections that can be viewed and manipulated as one group. See WinFS. System. * HP StorageWorks HP StorageWorks is an HP Portfolio of storage products, including online storage, nearline storage, storage networking , archiving, and storage software. The product line up includes: Disk arrays Virtualization The broad range of Brocade networking products supports Oracle VM server virtualization (1) Running applications in separate, isolated partitions within a single server. The "virtual machine" method can run different operating systems simultaneously, whereas the "OS virtualization" method runs applications for only one operating system (see virtual machine and OS software to deliver more efficient performance in the following ways: * Oracle Validated Configurations consisting of Oracle VM, Brocade 300 switches, Brocade 815/825 HBAs, and NetApp FAS3100 Series Storage enhance server application optimization while increasing visibility within virtualized environments to reduce downtime. * As part of the recently announced Oracle VM Storage Connect program, Brocade products that are included greatly enhance the ease with which storage can be managed and provisioned in an Oracle VM environment. These solutions are available today through Brocade and its technology alliance partners. "Network connectivity is the driving force behind the efficient and secure delivery of business applications, especially in today's highly distributed IT environments," said Marc Randall, senior vice president of Products and Offerings at Brocade. "Being selected by Oracle, one of the world's largest software vendors, to deliver the critical network infrastructure components of these innovative solutions is validation of the value of our proven, high-performance portfolio of data center offerings." More Information To learn more about Brocade joint technology solutions for Oracle, visit www.brocade.com/oracle. To read the recent Oracle VM Storage Connect announcement, visit http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/036766. Video Wim Coekaerts, Oracle's VP of Linux Engineering on Oracle VM: http://bit.ly/33vXO7 About the Oracle PartnerNetwork Oracle PartnerNetwork is a global business network of more than 22,000 companies that deliver innovative software solutions based on Oracle software. Through access to Oracle's premier products, education, technical services, marketing and sales support, Oracle PartnerNetwork Specialized provides partners with the resources they need to be successful in today's global economy. Oracle partners are able to offer their customers leading-edge solutions backed by Oracle's position as the world's largest business software company. Partners who are able to demonstrate superior product knowledge, technical expertise and a commitment to doing business with Oracle can apply to qualify for Specializations. About Brocade Brocade(Nasdaq:BRCD) develops extraordinary networking solutions that enable today's complex, data-intensive businesses to optimize information connectivity and maximize the business value of their data. For more information, visit www.brocade.com. Brocade, the B-wing symbol, BigIron, DCX, Fabric OS, FastIron, IronPoint, IronShield, IronView, IronWare, JetCore, NetIron, SecureIron, ServerIron, StorageX, and TurboIron are registered trademarks, and DCFM DCFM Dane County Farmers Market (Wisconsin) , Extraordinary Networks, and SAN Health are trademarks of 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., in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. 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After development began in the mid-1980s by David Patterson of the University of California at Berkeley and Bill trademarks are used under license and are trademarks or registered trademarks of SPARC International, Inc. in the United States and other countries. Products bearing SPARC trademarks are based upon an architecture developed by Sun Microsystems, Inc. EMC, Symmetrix, and CLARiiON are registered trademarks and V-Max is a trademark of EMC Corporation. Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation and/or its affiliates. [c] 2009 Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. All Rights Reserved. |
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