Brocade Network Monitoring Service Improves Data Availability and Efficiency
(Nasdaq: BRCD) announced today the next-generation Brocade Network Monitoring
Service (NMS), which provides organizations with an end-to-end remote
monitoring, alerting, and reporting service for their data center fabrics.
Brocade NMS now provides 24×7 expert end-to-end monitoring about the health
and status of data center fabrics to help maximize network efficiency,
availability, and uptime. Moreover, Brocade NMS provides organizations with
valuable information and rules-based business intelligence to maximize
application availability and optimize data center resources. Through this
service, IT organizations can better manage growing and increasingly complex
data center infrastructures with their current staff.
“Managed services are one of the fastest-growing segments of the storage
services market,” said Gartner Storage Services Principal Analyst
Couture
accelerate as IT departments are asked to do more with less and may have
headcounts frozen or even reduced.”
According to Gartner’s 2008 CIO survey, business intelligence is a top
technology priority. Brocade NMS helps fulfill that need by providing deeper
business intelligence, enabling organizations to make faster and more-informed
decisions. Brocade NMS does this by integrating expertise from knowledgeable
storage and networking professionals with a comprehensive monitoring approach,
advanced event management, and predictive diagnostic techniques. This
integration can help reduce overall problem resolution time by almost one hour
per event, resulting in decreased downtime costs and increased productivity to
subscribers.
In addition to 24×7 monitoring, Brocade NMS collects and analyzes a wide
variety of performance, utilization, and throughput data. Real-time alerts
warn administrators of networking issues, bottlenecks, or potential system
outages, thereby enabling proactive action to minimize or avoid an impact to
application performance and availability. Real-time and historical data and
flexible reports are generated automatically and are available via a secure
Web portal. As a result, organizations can analyze historical trends, optimize
resource utilization and cost-effectively plan future capacity.
New features of Brocade NMS include:
— Expanded monitoring and reporting from extension devices into the data
center across all Brocade products and many third-party products, creating an
end-to-end view of the data center fabric.
— A flexible new architecture that enables policy-based monitoring, event
correlation, and “yellow light” alerts to increase business intelligence and
enable a more proactive approach.
— An infrastructure that provides faster, more reliable access, as well
as enhanced security. An enhanced reporting platform provides real-time and
historical performance information along with flexible, customizable reports
and data views to meet specific requirements.
— More precise fault determination across the data center fabric for
faster resolution and increased ability to meet application SLAs.
“The newly enhanced Brocade NMS helps customers get the most value from
their data center network investments and ensures that under-staffed IT
resources can focus on the business,” said
General Manager of Brocade Global Services. “Through constant monitoring and
reporting, Brocade NMS helps ensure that our customers’ data center networks
are running optimally and that applications and data are readily available to
users.”
For more information visit http://www.brocade.com/nms.
About Brocade
Brocade is a leading provider of data center networking solutions that
help organizations connect, share, and manage their information in the most
efficient manner. Organizations that use Brocade products and services are
better able to optimize their IT infrastructures and ensure compliant data
management. For more information, visit the Brocade Web site at
http://www.brocade.com or contact the company at info@brocade.com.
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SOURCE Brocade