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Sponsored Case Study - Brocade Solutions solves California Tax Data Storage Woes.

The business of the California Franchise Tax Board relies heavily on data. The organization, which employs 5,000 staff full time and up to 6,500 during tax season, also administers the state’s Homeowner and Renter Assistance initiative. The department saves much of this information in large Oracle databases and it scans paper tax returns for digital storage. In compliance with state regulations, the department must save this data for several years, depending upon the nature of the information. To meet this need California Franchise Tax Board relied on Brocade Solutions which provided Reliable, high-speed, centralized storage environment and Scalability to store data migrated from direct-attached storage

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Solution Centre Resource - Article- Part 2: Key Benefits of Brocade HBAs.

Article-1 speaks about the Host Bus Adapters (HBAs) in general and Brocade HBAs (Brocade 815/825 and 415/425) in particular which enable organizations to better connect, consolidate, and manage their IT resources and enhance server connectivity which is a critical element for the delivery of high-performance, simplified, end-to-end data center management. This article gives a more indepth analysis of Brocade’s role in the HBA domain and the key benefits of Brocade HBAs.

Sponsored Case Study - Reliance BIG Animation Jazzes Up the Show with Brocade.

Spaced with 60,000 square feet state-of the- art first ever end-to-end quad core studio in Pune, Reliance BIG Animation India Private Limited  is dedicated to reviving the culture of story-telling by characterizing digital animation in the world of fantasy. The studio’s state-of-the-art cutting edge technology is deployed to back their entire operations, which are running on Linux and AMD Opteron Quad Core Processors. Reliance BIG Animation opted for Brocade’s BigIron RX backbone and FastIron Series Layer 2/3 switches to be deployed into its high-performance 10 gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) animation production network which provided a high-density platform to deliver high performance connections to the artists, servers and redundant 10GbE uplinks.

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Sponsored Whitepaper - Brocade Host Bus Adapter Performance Leadership

The Brocade 815 (single port) and 825 (dual port) 8 Gbit/sec FC-to-PCIe HBAs provides a new level of scalable server connectivity through unmatched hardware capabilities and unique software configurability. Brocade FC HBAs offer advanced features supporting enterprise-class, end-to-end storage networking solutions.

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Top Story - Brocade Increases Backbone Switch Fibre Channel Ports, Doubles Throughput

Brocade Communications Systems  announced that it has increased the port count on the blades used in its Fibre Channel backbone switch by 33 percent and doubled the throughput on those ports from 4Gbit/sec to 8Gbit/sec.

Top Story - New Brocade - Mcafee Network Security Partnership

A broad set of end-to-end network security solutions is now being offered in a partnership between Brocade and McAfee, integrating critical security capabilities into Brocade's networking products.

Top Story - New Brocade - McAfee network security partnership

A broad set of end-to-end network security solutions is now being offered in a partnership between Brocade and McAfee, integrating critical security capabilities into Brocade's networking products.

Top Story - Brocade Expands To IP Networking To Grow Further

Network solutions provider Brocade recently announced its expansion to IP networking as it looks to increase its 83 percent SAN (Storage Area Network) market share worldwide.

Solution Centre Resource - Article- Part 1: Brocade’s Next Generation Host Bus Adapters.

Brocade enables organizations to better connect, consolidate, and manage their IT resources and enhance server connectivity. The Brocade 815/825 and 415/425 Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters (HBAs) represent a new class of server connectivity product that is interoperable with the vast majority of the world’s Storage Area Network (SAN) switch ports and that can leverage Brocade Advanced Fabric Services functionality. As a result, these HBAs provide high-performance, reliable, enterprise-class server connectivity.

Solution Centre Whitepaper - Going “Green” with Brocade Extraordinary Networks.

As today’s IT organizations face the critical challenges of continued data growth and limited data center energy resources, they are turning to more energy-efficient devices to help them reduce their power usage and overall storage costs. As all modern enterprises depend on information technology, IT organizations must be able to align energy consumption with energy availability and simultaneously accommodate data growth as part of a viable IT strategy. Using today’s technology, organizations can build sophisticated data centers in a cost-effective manner. However, even a generous budget cannot guarantee that they will have the necessary energy resources to power it in an economical manner.

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