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OvERcOmIng THE cHAllEngE Of THE 3 cs
In todays dynamic business environment, managing data center and branch offce IT
infrastructures has become increasingly complex, time-consuming, and resource-intensive.
Faced with rapid data growth, unchecked server proliferation, and ever-rising storage
management costs, IT organizations need strategic, fexible solutions that ft within
their existing technology infrastructures and budgets.
To help these organizations overcome this growing challenge, Brocade offers the
innovative Tapestry family of solutions. Utilizing breakthrough technologies, Tapestry
solutions solve some of the most diffcult IT issues, including storage and server prolif-
eration, backup and restore management, and rising ownership costs. Moreover, these
solutions are specifcally designed to address the 3 Cs that every organization
must consider:
Lowering Costs
Reducing Complexity
Improving Compliance
lowering costs
Tapestry solutions are designed to lower overall IT costs by:
Reducing capital and operational expenditures
Consolidating equipment for better effciency and utilization
Supporting massive growth in data management and storage requirements
Handling the higher business workload associated with corporate initiatives and
regulatory compliance requirements
Finding new ways to leverage highly skilled staff and make them more productive
Supporting continued expansion in distributed enterprises
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Reducing complexity
Tapestry solutions are designed to reduce IT complexity by:
Simplifying IT operations for greater effciency, fexibility, and strategic growth
Standardizing management processes and policies for better control and consistency
Minimizing server and storage proliferation across the enterprise
Supporting Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) best practices without creating
additional workload
Reducing the reliance on specialized tools and systems that require substantial training
Masking traditional boundaries between server and storage groups, as well as
between the data center and branch offces
Improving compliance
Tapestry solutions are designed to improve business objective and regulatory
compliance by:
Supporting more stringent internal and external SLAs
Maximizing application uptime for 24x7 global data access
Enabling more robust disaster recovery and business continuance strategies
Centralizing management for better control and consistency
Utilizing best-practice security mechanisms throughout the enterprise
THE InnOvATIvE TAPEsTRy fAmIly Of IT InfRAsTRucTuRE sOluTIOns
The Tapestry family of IT infrastructure solutions is a strategic suite of products that
can uniquely solve specifc business challenges throughout enterprise environments.
These solutions simplify IT infrastructures while reducing both capital and operating
expenses through consolidation, automation, centralization, and productivity enhance-
ments. To ease implementation, Tapestry solutions ft within existing IT infrastructures
and work with many popular third-party tools.
The Tapestry family includes:
Tapestry Wide Area File Services (WAFS): provides reliable, high-performance
fle access across Wide Area Networks (WANs) and reduces overall costs by stream-
lining branch offce IT operations
Tapestry Application Resource Manager (ARM): automates common tasks
for rapid system deployment and management, reducing IT cost and complexity
while simplifying compliance
Tapestry Data Migration Manager (DMM): combines powerful capabilities
with ease-of-use features to support affordable, high-performance data migration in
heterogeneous storage environments
Deployed separately or used in combination, these solutions provide a wide range of
capabilities to help organizations overcome their most diffcult cost, complexity, and
compliance challenges.
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TAPEsTRy WAfs: BRAncH OffIcE cOnsOlIdATIOn And fIlE mAnAgEmEnT
Enterprises with branch offces are facing a growing number of IT challenges. For example,
WAN latency issues impact fle access performance and make it harder to implement
data center-class IT services at branch offces. Network issues also complicate effcient
fle sharing and often require multiple copies of data to manage, store, and back up.
Tapestry WAFS solves many of these branch offce IT issues, including storage and
server proliferation, data backup and restore, and rising ownership costs. It does so by
maximizing performance and reliability through a unique WAN-optimized fle sharing
protocol that operates between a core appliance located at a central site and edge
appliances at remote locations.
This unique design enables Tapestry WAFS to deliver read-write fle access at Local
Area Network (LAN)-like speeds across WANs, providing the foundation to streamline
a wide range of branch offce IT operations. Compared to alternative offerings,
Tapestry WAFS provides a much wider range of business and technological advantages
including higher performance, greater operational effciency, and all the benefts of
centralization and consolidation. Additional advantages include:
Enterprise-class security, resiliency, and reliability
Greater fexibility with unique stackable services
Seamless integration with existing IT infrastructure
lowering costs with Tapestry WAfs
Tapestry WAFS helps reduce overall storage and administrative expenses in a variety of
ways, such as:
Increasing server and storage asset utilization
Reducing capital expenditures and ongoing management costs
Improving both administrator and user productivity
Freeing up network bandwidth to handle larger workloads
One of the greatest advantages of Tapestry WAFS is its ability to improve operating
effciency by enabling distributed enterprises to consolidate equipment and centrally
manage their branch offce IT services. In this way, Tapestry WAFS helps reduce the
number of remote offce servers, storage and backup hardware, software, and other
related costs. In addition, centralized management signifcantly reduces the need for
remote site IT personnel, expensive site visits, and the need to ensure proper backups
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of branch offce storage. Utilized in this manner, Tapestry WAFS supports lights-out
operation at multiple remote locations.
To provide the same enterprise-class services used in data centers, Tapestry WAFS fea-
tures a full suite of stackable IT services. These low-cost, centrally managed services
increase productivity and help maximize Return On Investment (ROI). Key services
include centralized fle management, e-mail attachment consolidation, Web caching,
print serving, and Domain Name System (DNS) and Dynamic Host Confguration
Protocol (DHCP) services.
To deliver LAN-like performance for Common Internet File System (CIFS) and
Network File System (NFS) applications over the WAN, Tapestry WAFS incorporates
innovative technologies such as data streaming, compression, and fle-aware differ-
encing. In fact, Tapestry WAFS accelerates data transfer by as much as 100 times over
alternative offerings while reducing the amount of data sent over the WAN. As a result,
organizations can easily share data between remote sites, often saving hours per week
that were previously spent on time-consuming fle management and replication tasks.
Reducing complexity with Tapestry WAfs
Tapestry WAFS simplifes complexity by seamlessly integrating between existing data
center servers and remote offce clients according to common network integration
semantics. This approach reduces the learning curve for administrators and keeps IT
infrastructure changes to a minimum. It also enables standardization across the whole
enterprise, which in turn facilitates more consistent data management policies.
In addition, consolidation and centralization reduce the number of data copies to manage,
as well as the number of software tools and physical equipment for branch offces.
Moreover, all Network Attached Storage (NAS) semantics enforced by fle servers in
the data center are seamlessly extended to each branch offcereducing management
effort while ultimately increasing both control and consistency throughout the enterprise.
Improving compliance with Tapestry WAfs
To provide enterprise-class security and resiliency for compliance activities, Tapestry
WAFS integrates the latest security standards and leading authentication technologies.
It also integrates natively with advanced security schemes, such as SMB signing for
end-to-end security and the Microsoft Kerberos authentication standard. In addition,
organizations can encrypt all traffc sent over the WAN for added security.
The resilient Tapestry WAFS design helps protect data across a variety of applications
and network conditionsand enables it to survive inevitable WAN disruptions with
100 percent data coherency and consistency. Guaranteed fle consistency helps ensure
that all fles accessed are the most up-to-date versions and that fle changes will not be
lost or overwritten.
In this way, Tapestry WAFS helps reduce the business risks that many organizations face
with their branch offce environments. Because data is maintained in a central location,
organizations can implement consistent data backup and ILM policies for both the data
center and branch offces. They can also leverage best-practice regulatory compliance
and disaster recovery strategiesincreasing protection for mission-critical enterprise data.

TAPEsTRy ARm: gREATER PROducTIvITy And REsOuRcE uTIlIzATIOn

As todays IT organizations experience a substantial increase in business workload, server
environments are undergoing a dramatic change. Because of this trend, managing
the complex relationship between servers, storage, and related software has become
increasingly time- and resource-intensive.
To help organizations deploy and manage their business systems more effciently,
Tapestry ARM automates and integrates key management tasks for all elements of the
whole server environmentthereby reducing IT complexity, increasing productivity,
and providing a faster ROI. Tapestry ARM leverages extensive Brocade Storage Area
Network (SAN) expertise to help organizations deploy, reallocate, and manage their
systems in the most rapid and fexible manner possible.
For instance, Tapestry ARM can quickly redeploy and replicate golden system images
throughout the enterprise via a SANwithout requiring additional manual intervention.
This innovative use of SAN architecture provides enormous benefts for organizations
that are deploying new bladed or high-density server environments, fanning out their
server resources, or scaling down in shared storage environments.
lowering costs with Tapestry ARm
Tapestry ARM provides a cost-effective solution for lowering both operating and capital
expenses while increasing productivity, resource utilization, and overall fexibility. Compared
to alternative offerings, it saves signifcant time by automating resource-intensive redeploy-
ment tasks such as powering down, recabling new storage, and installing new operating
systems or drivers. In addition, it helps eliminate errors to improve data availability.
To minimize manual effort, Tapestry ARM provides a fully automated graphical user
interface, easy point-and-click actions, and template-based actions. In many cases, this
simplifed approach reduces previously complex and time-consuming tasks to a matter
of minutes. For example, Tapestry ARM automates repetitive tasks such as auto-con-
fguration, Host Bus Adapter (HBA) confguration, storage provisioning, and report
generation as well as server image capture, cloning, and deployment. The automated
functions further reduce expenses by freeing up valuable staff and equipment resources,
bringing new servers online faster, and reprovisioning servers with less effort.
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Tapestry ARM can take idle or less critical systems offine and rapidly redeploy them
to accommodate workload spikes, then restore them to their original states. Moreover,
it coexists with broader system management ecosystems such as Microsofts Virtual
Disk System (VDS) to further reduce operating overhead.
Reducing complexity with Tapestry ARm
To simplify IT infrastructure management, Tapestry ARM leverages breakthrough
technologies such as a transport-agnostic method for effciently provisioning, deploying,
and managing servers throughout their entire lifecycle. The extremely scalable frame-
work extends IT fexibility while providing a centralized, bound relationship for key
elements in the whole server environment.
Masking the complex relationship of servers, storage, and software signifcantly reduces
the manual effort to confgure, activate, and allocate new serversor reprovision and
manage existing servers. Point-and-click features simplify management and combine
with automated procedures to provide a more consistent and controlled management
frameworka unique approach that reduces the need for additional equipment and
highly trained staff. To support comprehensive management, organizations can easily
integrate Tapestry ARM within their existing enterprise management frameworks.
Improving compliance with Tapestry ARm
To help organizations achieve their business and regulatory compliance objectives,
Tapestry ARM supports enterprise-class data integrity and availability. For instance, it
enhances change management and reporting activities through automated tasks,
template-based profles, and logging. The detailed tracking and deployment consis-
tency support more granular charge-back capabilities, better server level agreement
attainment, and greater overall stability for server environments.
In addition, automation improves consistency and reduces human errors while enabling
best-practice strategies for data center server management. As a result, Tapestry ARM
secures and stabilizes application environments for easier compliance, and provides a
reliable foundation for enhanced business continuance operations.
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TAPEsTRy dmm: A mORE EffEcTIvE dATA mIgRATIOn TOOl
To support more effcient ILM, many IT organizations have implemented tiered storage
systemsmigrating static and less frequently accessed data to slower and more perma-
nent storage media. Unfortunately, the different tiers of storage often have different
interfaces and functions that complicate data movement. Moreover, traditional data
migration tools are often expensive, diffcult to use, and limited in their ability to inter-
operate between different storage types and vendors.
As a more innovative alternative, Tapestry DMM is a simple but powerful tool that
supports affordable, high-performance data migration in heterogeneous storage envi-
ronments. Based on the intelligent Brocade SilkWorm

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Tapestry DMM provides a predictable and storage-centric migration solution. It addresses
both one-time project-oriented migration and ongoing operational migrations, in which
organizations move or copy data volumes on a monthly, weekly, or even daily basis.
As a result, Tapestry DMM is faster, more affordable, and easier to use than typical data
migration offerings.
lowering costs with Tapestry dmm
Compared to alternative offerings, Tapestry DMM is typically much less expensivein
terms of reduced capital and operating expense. It lowers operating expenses by reducing
planning cycle overhead, actual execution time, and application downtime. In addition,
organizations can lower their capital expenses by avoiding the purchase of expensive
storage-specifc tools, minimizing the need for professional services, and increasing
fexibility in the types of storage media they use.
With an easy-to-use interface, Tapestry DMM requires much less training than traditional
data migration tools. There is also less duplication of administrative effort since Tapestry
DMM is a storage-centric tool that does not require the same levels of cross-functional
planning that many other tools do. Moreover, Tapestry DMM utilizes existing IT
infrastructure, so it increases resource utilization and better protects strategic technology
investments to provide a higher ROI.
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Reducing complexity with Tapestry dmm
To simplify data migration, Tapestry DMM provides a single standardized tool for
cost-effective migration of data volumes independent of operating system, application,
or storage arrayunifying support for the broadest range of storage devices. Tapestry
DMM provides two management approaches: a robust command line interface that
can integrate with third-party tools and customized scripts, and a GUI-based manage-
ment console with a step-by-step interface that greatly simplifes migration tasks and
helps ensure consistent operations.
Tapestry DMM also reduces IT complexity by requiring much less planning and
hands-on execution time than alternative tools. As a SAN-based solution managed by
storage administrators, it is less disruptive than server-based solutions and easier to plan
for than traditional professional services offerings. Because it is designed for easy
wire-once setup, organizations can quickly deploy Tapestry DMM simply by connecting
it to an existing SAN. Prior to a migration project, organizations can insert Tapestry DMM
into the data path and then easily remove it after the project is complete.
Improving compliance with Tapestry dmm
To support ever-increasing compliance requirements, Tapestry DMM provides high
performance that helps address a wide range of business objectives, SLAs, and industry
regulations. For instance, terabyte-per-hour migrations move more data in less time.
The resulting shorter downtime windows help increase data availability for 24x7
global operations.
In addition, faster data migration over SANs and WANs can enhance disaster recovery
and business continuance operations to help ensure that organizations can meet their
full range of compliance requirements. Moreover, heterogeneous support enables a
true tiered storage approach where automated, policy-based ILM tools can improve
both effciency and consistency. By implementing more consistent operations, organi-
zations can dramatically lower their business exposure and risk.
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fOR mORE InfORmATIOn
With a growing number of capabilities, the Brocade Tapestry family is designed to
address the vast array of issues facing todays IT organizations. Whether those issues are
part of the data center infrastructure or confned to branch offces, Tapestry solutions
solve unique and specifc problems by leveraging breakthrough technologies. Today,
IT organizations can trust Tapestry solutions to overcome their most diffcult cost,
complexity, and compliance challenges.
For more information, contact an authorized Brocade sales partner or visit
www.brocade.com.
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