Brocade to Host Asia Pacific Storage Events
Brocade to Host Asia Pacific Storage Events
Dec 01, 2005: Brocade is this month launching the first of a series of Asia Pacific storage conferences in Sydney. The events will bring together experts from a number of prominent industry players including EMC, HP, IBM and Sun to discuss the directions in which storage technology is driving business, and vice versa.
The Sydney event on the 6th of December will explore topics such as ILM & Virtualisation, Wide Area File Services (WAFS) for branch offices, Information Integrity, next generation SAN design and 4G SAN. It will be the first of nine to run in the Asia Pacific region.
Storage Area Network (SAN) switch developer, Brocade, will also be using the conference to showcase its new WAFS technology. This new technology, called Tapestry, is aimed at organisations with branch offices and is, according to Brocade, important for companies who don’t have the bandwidth for effective WAFS.
“The challenges organisations are facing are how to better and more cost effectively manage their branch offices. Many organisations have a distributed environment. head office and multiple remote offices and it has always been an issue as to how to manage your storage and servers effectively at the branch office,” says Graham Schultz, Brocade Communications Systems Inc’s Country Manager, Australia and New Zealand. “Tapestry allows customers to consolidate a lot of server and storage infrastructure from the remote branch and bring it back into the head office.”
Tapestry has been developed to natively integrate with Microsoft Windows Storage Server 2003 R2 and, according to Brocade, allows LAN-like performance while accessing data from the data centre.
In Australia it’s not about bandwidth; the fattest pipe in the country is still prone to the vagaries of latency. Combine with your network interface at either end of the link. “If you’ve only got one car going down the freeway at 60km/h, and you want to go 100km/h, it doesn’t help putting another lane on the freeway.” says Schultz.
Tapestry caches files locally and only sends the changes back to the data centre. This way, the traffic is minimised across the network, which in turn reduces the latency for file access from the desktop.
This solution will be on show alongside others from sponsors such as EMC, HP, IBM, Microsoft, Dell, Hitachi, Sun and Symantec. Register at www.brocade-apac.com/conference2005
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