Brocade StorageX is an integrated suite of applications designed to logically aggregate distributed file data across heterogeneous environments, providing administrators with policies to automate data management.
Cost-Effective Data Management
The explosive growth of unstructured data and the associated proliferation of file servers and NAS appliances have resulted in challenges for IT administrators and users alike. In fact, each device that needs to be managed independently greatly increases the administrative costs in distributed file storage environments.
Brocade StorageX is an integrated suite of applications that logically aggregates distributed file data across heterogeneous storage environments and across CIFS- and NFS-based file systems while providing policies to automate data management functions. Brocade StorageX supports key tasks such as:
- Data migration and consolidation
- Cost-effective business continuity
- Remote site data management
- Information Lifecycle Management (ILM)
- Storage optimization
- Data classification and reporting
Because administrators can perform tasks without causing downtime for users, Brocade StorageX helps increase data availability, optimize storage capacity, and simplify management. Global Namespace for File Transparency The Brocade StorageX Global Namespace unifies heterogeneous file data by pooling multiple file systems into a single, logical file system. It provides the following key benefits: - Data management and movement are both transparent and non-disruptive.
- Data changes are automatically updated and require no client reconfiguration.
- Administrators can expand, move, rebalance, and reconfigure storage without affecting how users view and access it.
- Data management and movement require far less administrative effort and time.
- Administrators can manage data on heterogeneous, geographically distributed storage devices through a single console.
- Users have a single, logical view of files with access through a single drive letter.
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Highlights - Provides 24x7 access to data through backups and replicas of the logical data access infrastructure, across multiple globally distributed locations
- Seamlessly expands networked storage, users, and offices by making expansion transparent (non-disruptive) to users
- Increases administrator productivity by automating key data management tasks, including migration, consolidation, failover, and remote site data management
- Improves user productivity by simplifying access to distributed data
- Accommodates hierarchical role-based administration and supports administration of multiple clients
- Centralizes business continuity management in heterogeneous, distributed environments
What the Industry Is Saying about Brocade StorageX
"StorageX is a simple, elegant solution to the complex problem of file system management. It is not obtrusive, over-engineered, or high-risk. It merely rides on top of what is already there. The price is such that a quick, back-of-the envelope ROI calculation should yield a solid multiplier."
- Michael Fisch, Director of Storage and Networking, The Clipper Group |