An old idea to get your brain around

I was swapping email with a pretty bright colleague of mine the other day, telling him about Fabric Applications, and he responded that he 'couldn't get his brain around it'. I assumed it was understandable given that Fabric apps are a fairly new idea to many. But just how new are Fabric apps? Not very - especially in IT-years.

With a little googling you can turn up a number of stories about the Brocade Fabric Application Platform, as well as Gartner's write-up announcing the company's entry into the market via the Rhapsody acqusition.

This was on November 8, 2002.

So turns out, Fabric Apps go back further than Camera phones and even VoIP.

The primary appeal of Fabric apps in 2002 was the same as it is today, to quote from a story at the time, "...to run [applications] in the SAN without the need for a seperate server."

For more info on this time-tested approach to enterprise-class data management that lowers administrative cost of ownership, visit the Brocade Fabric applications page.