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Monday, 1 February 2016

Brocade allies with Nutanix for hyperconverged deployments

Brocade has partnered with Nutanix to help enterprises seamlessly deploy hyperconverged infrastructures. Brocade and Nutanix are also closely aligned on channel strategy and have common distribution partners including Avnet and Arrow.

Hyperconvergence tightly integrates compute, storage and virtualisation using commodity hardware to bring simplified operation, high availability and scalability to the data centre. According to Gartner, “By 2018, converged infrastructure systems categorised as 'hyperconverged infrastructure' will represent 35% of total converged infrastructure shipments.”*

Through the collaboration Brocade VDX switches have received Nutanix Ready validation, demonstrating solution compatibility and interoperability with Nutanix systems. Deploying the Nutanix Xtreme Computing Platform (XCP) and Brocade VDX switches with Brocade VCS Fabric technology addresses requirements for virtualisation and specific workloads such as virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) and big data analytics.

In addition to realising significant performance and efficiency gains, organisations using Brocade VCS Fabric technology can seamlessly scale out their networks with a simple, flat fabric-based architecture that:
  • Forms and heals automatically, delivering simplicity and resiliency 
  • Supports automated, hypervisor-agnostic virtual machine (VM) discovery and mobility 
  • Delivers high-speed replication performance in and between data centres 
  • Improves visibility for faster troubleshooting

Said Jason Nolet, SVP, Switching, Routing and Analytics Group at Brocade. “Brocade fabrics are ideal for highly virtualised environments with high levels of automation that mirror the deployment and scale-out advantages of Nutanix. The Nutanix Ready validation will provide our joint customers with confidence as they deploy our combined technologies.”

“Brocade fabrics deploy and scale out with ease complementing Nutanix solutions that make datacenter infrastructures invisible,” said Venugopal Pai, VP of business development and alliances at Nutanix. “The Brocade-Nutanix alliance extends beyond technology to a holistic partnering approach, ensuring customer and channel success for the long term.”

Interested?

Read the TechTrade Asia blog posts about Silver Peak's collaboration with Nutanix and Brocade's partnership with Huawei

Explore the TechTrade Asia blog post about how hyperconverged platforms can have advantages over public cloud implementations

Check out how Softbank benefits from Brocade VDX switches


*Gartner, The Coming Converged Infrastructure Vendor Battle and What to Do About It, February 5, 2015.

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