Brocade Tapestry Application Resource Manager (ARM)

Brocade Tapestry Application Resource Manager (ARM)

Brocade Tapestry Application Resource Manager (ARM) automatically deploys and reallocates server, storage, and software resources while efficiently managing their complex inter-relationships.

Improving Data Center Management with Flexibility and Higher Utilization

Tapestry ARM uniquely integrates key management tasks for all elements of the "whole server" environment to reduce IT complexity and increase productivity. By automating many resource-intensive tasks, Tapestry ARM improves administrator efficiency, consistency, and control while significantly lowering overall management costs.

Compared to alternative offerings, Tapestry ARM provides immediate and significant time savings by automating resource-intensive redeployment tasks such as powering down, recabling new storage, and installing new operating systems or drivers. In this way, Tapestry ARM provides a reliable and cost effective solution for dynamically lowering operating and capital equipment expenses while increasing productivity, consistency, resource utilization, and overall flexibility.

Highlights

• Provides an innovative method of flexibly reconfiguring system resources without requiring recabling or other manual intervention
• Increases productivity by automating complex tasks and enabling administrators to manage their systems more efficiently
• Accelerates product time-to-market by reducing system deployment time through simple point-and-click management
• Secures and stabilizes system environments through centralized, template-based management
• Reduces operating expenditures by increasing utilization rates of capital equipment
• Helps ensure corporate and regulatory compliance by automatically tracking and logging system activity and usage