Brocade X7-8 X7-4 Director More Intelligent Resilient 24 Port Storage Switch

Technology is evolving at an incredible pace, and businesses are demanding more from their IT resources and infrastructure. Rapid adoption of flash storage and the ramp-up of NVMe-based storage unleash advancements in application design that drive new levels of performance and capacity requirements, such as advanced analytics, business intelligence, and data-intensive workloads. With the integration of new technologies that are accelerating the delivery of data and services, the network will need to evolve to keep pace with innovations in storage and demands of modern applications to maximize the full value of investments in next-generation data center infrastructure. To meet ever-increasing demands for faster, more reliable data access, it is essential for organizations to deploy a modernized infrastructure that reduces latency, increases bandwidth, and ensures continuous availability. Unprecedented performance is not enough on its own. Powerful analytics and advanced automation capabilities are required to transform current storage networks into an autonomous SAN. This requires a network that is capable of delivering these capabilities to maximize performance, simplify management, and reduce operational costs. Legacy infrastructure was not designed to support the performance requirements of evolving workloads and NVMe-based storage. In fact, an aging network will impede the performance of the on-demand data center. By modernizing the storage network with Brocade® Gen 7, organizations will enable a faster, more intelligent, and more resilient network. This will maximize the performance, productivity, and efficiency of their storage investments and resources, even as they rapidly scale their environments. Brocade® X7 Director A Faster, More Intelligent, More Resilient Foundation for the On-Demand Data Center The Brocade X7 Director provides a modular building block, purpose-built for scalability to accommodate growth and power large-scale storage environments. With a 50% latency reduction compared to the previous generation, Brocade X7 Directors maximize the performance of NVMe storage and hightransaction workloads, eliminating I/O bottlenecks and unleashing the full performance of nextgeneration storage. In addition, the Brocade X7 Director lays the foundation for the autonomous SAN. With autonomous SAN technology, the director harnesses the power of analytics and the simplicity of automation to optimize performance, ensure reliability, and simplify management. Leveraging these capabilities enables organizations to realize a self-learning, selfoptimizing, and self-healing SAN. In addition, the Brocade X7 Director provides cyberresiliency with integrated security technology that protects missioncritical operations by validating the integrity of Gen 7 hardware and software. With enhanced security and autonomous SAN technology, organizations can take the guesswork out of protecting and managing a network. Brocade X7 Directors provide up to 384 64G ports or up to 512 32G ports, enabling organizations to scale more devices, applications, and workloads. With diverse deployment options, multiprotocol