How Brocade-Sugon helping China to curtail software networking shortage?

NEW DELHI: Communication solutions provider Brocade has entered into an OEM partnership with computing vendor Dawning Information Industry Co (also known as Sugon) to address the growing demand for software networking solutions in China.

The partnership is focused on incorporating Brocade VCS Fabric technology with Sugon's data center solutions, specifically for the Chinese market and will help both the companies to gain market share.

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, and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), as well as supporting 16 Gbps Fibre Channel requirements for the deployment of high-performance data center networking solutions.

To build data center networks with resiliency, efficiency, and simplicity, the VDX 2741 embedded Ethernet fabric switch is a critical component of the Sugon TC6600 blade system in building a radically simplified data center network.

Designed specifically for highly virtualized environments, Brocade VCS Fabric technology accelerates application deployment and enables faster Virtual Machine (VM) migrations through zero-touch VM discovery, VM mobility, and VM port configuration migration. Using 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.

Sugon customers in China will benefit from deploying the integrated solutions that enable innovation-centric, software-enabled networking, providing the agility to scale their infrastructure up, down, and across to support today's demanding compute models. In particular, the partnership will help customers in the banking and finance, telecommunications and service provider, education, and public sectors, all of whom need to deliver capacity and resources that scale with flexible and open network infrastructures, the release added.

"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, Vice-President 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 Sha Chaoqun, Vice-President, Sugon.