Intelligent CIO Middle East Issue 14 | Page 52

INTELLIGENT BRANDS // Data Centres

Brocade introduces three new data centre switches

Brocade has announced three new data centre switches – SLX 9140 , SLX 9240 and SLX 9540 , as part of an expanded Brocade SLX family , that feature network visibility and the addition of Brocade Workflow Composer Automation Suites for turnkey automation .

Yarob Sakhnini , Regional Director , MEMA at Brocade says , “ As organisations continue to transform their business and adapt to new digital workloads , IT operations teams struggle to keep pace with the volume and variety of data going across their networks . In order to meet customer and end-user service and application expectations and remain competitive , organisations need to provide service and application assurance , improve operational efficiencies , and in some cases , enable new monetisation opportunities . To accomplish this , they need comprehensive visibility into the operational state of the network and into the traffic that is transiting the network .”

“ Brocade SLX family is the industry ’ s first data centre networking portfolio to deliver agility at all layers of the data centre stack , while being open to provide customers with choice . With Brocade , organisations can build networks that allow them to quickly adapt to technology transitions , deliver new services at cloud speed and accelerate digital transformation .”
By embedding network visibility on every router and switch , organisations can achieve pervasive visibility throughout the network to quickly identify problems , accelerate meantime-to-remediation and improve overall service levels . The Brocade SLX 9140 and 9240 extend these capabilities with a programmable
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