Brocade has cut a deal with Hitachi Data Systems to vend its storage management wares.
HDS will resell Brocade StorageX: a suite of applications that handles file management and virtualization (when it isn’t driving against Speed Racer, of course).
StorageX gives a global namespace (that’s presenting a single, logical view of distributed files) across numerous NAS boxes and multiple file systems. In a nutshell, it allows users to access files without knowing their ip

The software package also supports tasks such as data migration and consolidation, remote site data management and data classification and reporting. You’ll also find non-disruptive data movement, which is nice. For instance, customers can migrate user data to a larger NAS box without remapping drives to point to a new server ip Such file virtualization is dead useful when dealing with loads of unstructured data. Or so we hear.