Brocade Overview

Brocade provides platforms, solutions, and services for connecting, managing, and optimizing IT resources in shared storage environments. The company has pioneered the Storage Area Network (SAN) market with its complete line of SAN infrastructure solutions. Additionally, Brocade is an industry leader in innovative File Area Network (FAN) solutions that provide the basis for proficient file management. Brocade also offers a wide range of unique services offerings. As a result, Brocade helps organizations of all sizes increase efficiency, reduce costs, and maximize the value of their data assets.

Companies rely on Brocade solutions to provide an open and secure environment for their storage applications, such as data backup, storage and server consolidation, and business maintenance.

Brocade has developed an Intelligent Fabric Operating Environment that includes intelligence directly into the networking storage platform, which in turn, creates a highly available, scalable, and secure environment for storage applications. The Brocade SilkWorm family of fabric switches and software assists organizations in connecting servers with storage devices and scales them independently, consolidates and shares servers and storage resources, shares valuable backup resources across the enterprise and centralizes data management to handle more data without increasing personnel resources.

Brocade solutions help maximize technology investments by providing readily available and east-to-manage foundations for mission-critical storage, server, and application resources. By utilizing these innovative solutions, companies can simplify their IT environments to reduce operating costs and meet their business objectives. The result is a IT environment designed for cost-effective growth.

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