Brocade Silkworm 12000

Brocade Silkworm 12000 ... deploying enterprise-class Storage Area Networks (SANs) in mission-critical environments. Building on the proven Brocade SAN architecture, the Brocade SilkWorm 12000 sets a new industry standard for ultra-high availability, scalability, manageability, and security in the storage environment, enabling customers to scale storage more effectively, support continuous data availability, and reduce the overall cost of storage management.

Combining a wide array of redundant hardware components and innovative software, the SilkWorm 12000 provides unprecedented ultra-high availability in an enterprise-level switch, meeting enterprise-class "five-nines" availability requirements. As a result, it helps support a strategic SAN infrastructure capable of addressing the most demanding business requirements.

The SilkWorm 12000 Director simplifies management by networking core and edge switches under Brocade Fabric OS, the embedded operating system. The SilkWorm 12000 supports Brocade Secure Fabric OS, the most comprehensive fabric-based security architecture available. Based on state-of-the-art networking security technology, this architecture addresses a wide variety of vulnerabilities within the SAN fabric.

The SilkWorm 12000 is fully interoperable with the entire SilkWorm product family, enabling a seamless upgrade path and optimal investment protection. Also, the Brocade Fabric OS shipping with each SilkWorm 12000 has earned FCIA SANmark compliance, verifying that it complies with fiber channel standards and is interoperable with third party solutions. The SilkWorm 12000 offers an extensible, multiprotocol architecture designed for optimal data reliability in a storage network with support for emerging storage networking technologies. Brocade Fabric OS is included in the SilkWorm 12000 and provides a wide variety of Advanced Fabric Services that are designed to improve the investment protection, security, performance, scalability, and efficiency of Brocade SAN fabrics.