Brocade Announces Agreement With EMC At Storage Management 2002


📅 - Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.(brocade.com), a provider of infrastructure for Storage Area Networks (SANs), and EMC Corporation, an information storage provider, announced today that EMC will integrate the Brocade Fabric Access Application Programming Interface (API) into the EMC WideSky storage management middleware. The announcement comes out of the Storage Management 2002 conference, where Brocade launched the Brocade Fabric Access API 2.0.

Managing the Brocade SilkWorm? family of fabric switches, this agreement will enable customers using applications developed using EMC (emc.com) WideSky, to use Brocade fabric switches, network servers with storage devices through a storage area network (SAN), and create a highly available, manageable, scalable, and secure environment for storage applications.
?EMC's WideSky provides developers with a common access mechanism to incorporate a wide range of storage networking capabilities into their products,? said Don Swatik, EMC's Vice President of Alliances and Information Sciences. ?Brocade and EMC are working together to deliver additional features and functionality that meet customer requirements for interoperability and SAN management.?
?Companies are looking for opportunities to consolidate management of multi-vendor storage environments. Because Brocade fabric switches provide a platform for heterogeneous storage networks, simplified, unified management applications are a customer requirement. We will help accelerate the delivery of storage management and other applications that are optimized for Brocade SAN environments and ensure that all applications created using WideSky can leverage the intelligence in the Brocade fabric,? said Jay Kidd, Brocade Vice President of Product Marketing.

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