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Brocade introduces three new data centre switches
Brocade has announced three new data centre switches – SLX 9140, SLX 9240 and SLX 9540, as part of an expanded Brocade SLX family, that feature network visibility and the addition of Brocade Workflow Composer Automation Suites for turnkey automation.
Yarob Sakhnini, Regional Director, MEMA at Brocade says,“ As organisations continue to transform their business and adapt to new digital workloads, IT operations teams struggle to keep pace with the volume and variety of data going across their networks. In order to meet customer and end-user service and application expectations and remain competitive, organisations need to provide service and application assurance, improve operational efficiencies, and in some cases, enable new monetisation opportunities. To accomplish this, they need comprehensive visibility into the operational state of the network and into the traffic that is transiting the network.”
“ Brocade SLX family is the industry’ s first data centre networking portfolio to deliver agility at all layers of the data centre stack, while being open to provide customers with choice. With Brocade, organisations can build networks that allow them to quickly adapt to technology transitions, deliver new services at cloud speed and accelerate digital transformation.”
By embedding network visibility on every router and switch, organisations can achieve pervasive visibility throughout the network to quickly identify problems, accelerate meantime-to-remediation and improve overall service levels. The Brocade SLX 9140 and 9240 extend these capabilities with a programmable
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