This session will focus on Brocade’s network management software roadmap for both SAN and IP thru 2010 and into 2011. Heavy emphasis will be placed on Brocade’s SAN features, SAN + IP unified management, FCoE/Convergence and Server Virtualization. Integration with Brocade’s partner management applications will also be covered. 

FOS is a feature rich, highly available, highly scalable, extremely robust, distributed, enterprise class datacenter operating system that forms the core foundation of the Next Generation Datacenter architectures. FOS enables SAN connectivity for a large number of both virtual and physical servers and storage devices, enables datacenter connectivity across geographical locations for business continuity and disaster recovery, offers encryption services to protect data at rest, enhances asset utilization through resource sharing yet providing data path isolation and management isolation capabilities, provides secure administration, offers traffic management, advanced performance monitoring, advanced system and network monitoring capabilities. 

FOS RAS offering involves rich sets of tools and capabilities to enable users to monitor and get notified about potential problems before they impact application performance, isolate problematic hardware and software components from impacting overall system stability, run offline and online diagnostics to check system and fabric health, and automatically and proactively gather system information for failure analysis for faster problem resolution.

The Next Generation of Extension is here today!  A major part of DCI (Data Center Interconnect) is storage and tape connectivity using IP networking.  This topic covers array-to-array (FC) and XRC (FICON) data replication and tape transport for both open systems and mainframe environments.  This session will discuss new technology advances found only in the recently released 7800 and FX blade.  The 7800/FX are the technology refresh platforms for the USDx and Edge 3000, which are going off of support in the near future.  We will also discuss design best practices for these environments.  This will be an intermediate level session and basic extension knowledge will be presumed.

Protocol Intermix Mode (PIM) is a feature supported by IBM on zSeries processors that allows FICON and open systems Fibre Channel (FCP) traffic to co-exist on the same physical storage network. This presentation discusses PIM subjects that end users need to address, zLinux specifics, as well as to the fabric elements such as NPIV that they should consider when evaluating a PIM solution.

This session will outline the best practices of building dense datacenters with 'Virtual Top-of-Rack'  and other Top-of-Rack server access models. The Virtual-TOR model is gaining popularity due to multiple factors, like, it reduces network layers, reduces cabling costs, reduces network latency and reduces traffic congestion, while enabling you to build very dense server farms. As IT organizations around the world try to become GREEN, the Virtual-TOR model offers some unique advantages by reducing power consumption by more than 25%. This session will cover additional server access designs such as highly resilient designs to the server access layer as well as converged server I/O solutions.

This session will focus on Brocade’s network management software roadmap for both SAN and IP thru 2010 and into 2011. Heavy emphasis will be placed on Brocade’s IP features for Layers 2/3/4, SAN + IP unified management and Server Virtualization. Integration with Brocade’s partner management applications will also be covered.

SNA over IP solutions have evolved over the last decade and half to provide a variety of solution options. The optimal solution depends upon the application environment and the evolution of legacy equipment in that environment. Typically, end users modernize their networks and then deploy technology that allows them to transport the SNA application traffic over the new IP network. Given that SNA networks have largely been replaced, this presentation focuses on replacing traditional 3270 terminals with emulation programs (TN3270) for SNA LU Type 2 applications and providing transport emulation (Enterprise Extender) that replace SNA infrastructure components to support SNA Advanced Peer-to-Peer Networking (APPN) applications (LU Type 6.2) and specialty devices (LU Type 0). The resulting solution leverages the advanced functionality and reliability of the latest switching and routing technology with these "tried-and-true" IBM software solutions for a simplified and effective SNA over IP solution.

Technical Content: Level 2

This session will provide an in-depth investigation of advanced design techniques with the Brocade ServerIron ADX. Topics will include Content Switching and Layer 7 load balancing, Global Server Load Balancing across data centers and cloud, and the Application Resource Broker for virtualized data centers.

Technical Content: Level 1

Application Delivery Controllers are a strategic element of data center networks. They provide resiliency, availability, and security services to applications across the network. This session provides a brief overview on Application Delivery Controllers, along with Brocade's vision for the future of application delivery.

Technical Content: Level 2

Building high performance Application Delivery Networks requires an architectural approach to design. This session will discuss architectural choices for high performance and highly available design, including inline deployments, direct server return mode, and the use of IGPs such as OSPF. The session will also go into detail on IPv6, and how application delivery controllers can simplify a transition to IPv6.

Media-rich services being deployed in networks today depend on the efficiencies of multicast. This session will cover details of how to deploy multicast services on Brocade’s MLX platform for various architectures based on Layer 2, Layer 3 and MPLS designs.

MPLS is now a proven technology in service provider networks and offers numerous benefits to providers who seek to build scalable, efficient, and resilient networks. This session will review best practices for migrating a network to MPLS, recommended designs for scalable and resilient metro architectures based on MPLS and other complementary technologies. Different applications such as cell backhaul, broadband aggregation, business services and MPLS in the backbone will be addressed.

Today’s enterprise campus networks are faced with an increasing number of requirements and challenges due to the need for anytime, anywhere access, heightened security demands and the need for non-stop availability. The campus network architecture is evolving in response to these requirements, technology changes and a growing set of user expectations.  While the traditional three-tier campus design continues to be a viable option for many campus environments, new topologies are emerging delivering increased availability and simplified operations, including  active-active networks, collapsed cores and virtualized campus cores.   We will delve into these new techniques during this session on the next generation campus core.   We will also integrate discussion on the pain-points you are seeing in your networks and evaluate the benefits of the emerging trends in solving your issues.

This session will review the business requirements and IT initiatives that are driving new use cases and architectures within the Data Center.  Brocade will detail its strategy to deliver innovative solutions that will enable the architectural evolution of the Data Center to deploy these use cases.  Brocade will also provide an update on its most recent products that deliver on this strategy.

In this highly interactive session, get an in depth overview of how the Ultimate Network Challenge winners in High Performance IP Networks category modernized their data center or campus networks to deliver unprecedented levels of performance and reliability.  Technology solutions that may be included in their solution: 10Gigabit Ethernet, wireless 802.11n, and network virtualization.

In this highly interactive session, get an in depth overview of how the Ultimate Network Challenge winners in the Advanced Convergence Applications category deployed unified communications, video or other real time applications to the delight of their end-users.  They will share with you how they broke the barriers for collaboration.

In this highly interactive session, get an in depth overview of how the Ultimate Network Challenge winners in Next Generation Storage category achieved new levels of cost containment and efficiencies through the deployment of next-generation SANs or storage consolidation.   Applicable technology solutions include Fibre Channel, Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), and virtual I/O.