Brocade branches out with SAN provisioning software

NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: DENI CONNOR ON SERVERS
06/09/05
Today's focus: Brocade branches out with SAN provisioning
software

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* Brocade announces Tapestry Application Resource Manager
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Today's focus: Brocade branches out with SAN provisioning
software

By Deni Connor

The worlds of servers and storage are converging with Brocade's
announcement of software that runs on a storage-area network and
provisions blade servers with operating systems and
applications.

Last month Brocade acquired Therion Software, a start-up in
Redmond, Wash. The acquisition included nine programmers
experienced with storage and Windows. Therion had been working
on SAN software that allows blade servers - which these days
don't always ship with disk drives - to boot from the SAN and
then get an image of the server's operating system, settings and
applications.

Brocade's new Tapestry Application Resource Manager runs on its
Fabric Application Platform, which connects blade servers to
storage.

Tapestry ARM is unlike other provisioning software in that the
image remains on the SAN rather than being transferred over the
LAN from the storage array to the server. Redirection software
lets the server see the SAN just as if it were a local hard
drive. Because of the latency of the Fibre Channel connection,
access is negligible.

The technology is much like the remote network boot that
yesterday's diskless workstations used. In those
implementations, the server contained a disk image file for the
network operating system. The disk image was created with
Novell's DOSGEN or Microsoft's Remote Program Load. The diskless
workstation was equipped with a boot ROM that allowed it to
attach to the network and boot the workstation to the network.

Tapestry ARM is in early testing with several of Brocade's OEM
customers and will be generally available this fall.
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