Brocade VCS fabric - Lisens - 1 switch - for VDX 6740, 6740T, 6740T-1G

Brocade VCS Fabric technology helps organizations create efficient data center networks that just work. Ethernet fabrics built on Brocade VCS Fabric technology provide unmatched VM awareness and automation compared to traditional network architectures and competitive fabric offerings. In addition, they increase flexibility and IT agility, enabling organizations to transition smoothly to elastic, mission-critical networks in highly virtualized data centers.

As the trend toward server virtualization and cloud computing continues to grow, IT organizations must be able to support more - often much more, in terms of data and network traffic - with less, and do so much more quickly. In addition, a number of regulations have forced a stronger focus on data security and control. These business realities, along with improvements in WAN/LAN performance, have contributed to a retrenchment of IT operations and investments back into the data center.

But there are important differences in how the "new" data center must be architected, since server-to-server transactions now exceed data center-client exchanges. IT domains that had developed independently in the client/server era have become much more interdependent, and the ability to coordinate resource allocation synchronously across servers, storage, and networks is increasingly necessary to guarantee application availability.