Brocade signs OEM partnership with Dawning Information Industry

Brocade has announced a new OEM partnership with Dawning Information Industry (Sugon), one of the high-performance computing vendors formed under the purview of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The partnership is focused on incorporating Brocade VCS Fabric technology with Sugon’s data centre solutions specifically for the Chinese market.

Sugon customers in China will benefit from deploying the integrated solutions that enable software-enabled networking, providing the agility to scale their infrastructure to support demanding compute models. In particular, the partnership will help customers in the banking and finance, telecommunications and service provider, education, and public sectors.

Sugon will integrate Brocade VDX 6740 Switches, featuring VCS Fabric technology, with its flagship blade server product line – TC6600, as a 10/40 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE)/16 Gbps Fibre Channel converged network switch module. The embedded switch module in the TC6600 will be named VDX 2741, and is capable of supporting 10 and 40 GbE requirements for cloud computing, big data analysis, infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), as well as supporting 16 Gbps Fibre Channel requirements for data centre networking. 

Using Brocade VCS fabrics, Sugon TC6600 customers can manage dozens of switches as a single logical device, dramatically reducing operational costs. They can also save installation time as new switches provision themselves when they are connected to the fabric.

“Our new partnership with Sugon will empower customers in China to build programmable networks easily, and allow them to innovate more rapidly at a lower cost and in the most accessible manner,” said Eric Yu, VP for Greater China, Brocade. “Enterprises and service providers in China can take advantage of both Brocade’s strong heritage in Ethernet fabric and software networking, as well as Sugon’s large-scale deployment experience in China, to create a fundamentally different network based on the New IP. As a result, they will be prepared to meet today’s increasing demands created by cloud, social, mobile, and big data.”

“Sugon and Brocade both share a strong common vision that open networking technology is the right approach to give our customers the flexibility and choice for their IT investments,” said Dr Sha Chaoqun, VP, Sugon. “Brocade’s pioneering effort in developing a technology roadmap of open, software-driven networking solutions based on the New IP was another crucial factor in cementing this partnership, which we believe will pave the way for future collaborations as we help our customers innovate and transition their networks on their terms and timeline.”