Brocade

Brocade Communications

Brocade and EMC have a long-standing, strategic partnership founded upon product quality, innovation, and addressing customer requirements with industry-leading joint solutions. The two companies share a common vision to drive IT efficiencies and business flexibility through data center consolidation, virtualization, protection, and next-generation backup solutions.

To ensure a superior total customer experience, Brocade products undergo stringent interoperability tests in EMC eLab before being added to the EMC support matrix. The result of these rigorous processes is industry-leading field reliability supporting over 20,000 joint customers. Close alignment between customer service organizations provide customers with expedited time to resolution for service issues.

Enabling the virtualized data center...today

Our customers are expecting more of their infrastructure, especially as they contemplate evolving to the virtualized data center. This move requires focus beyond infrastructure, necessitating tight integration to applications, middleware, and database environments.

By integrating revolutionary products like the EMC Symmetrix V-Max and Brocade’s DCX backbone director with mission-critical applications, we enable our customers to drive new economic efficiencies and seamlessly evolve their data centers.

Joint solutions

EMC-Brocade solutions include:

• Virtualization solutions leveraging our core building blocks for leading application environments.
• Consolidation solutions driving protocol convergence, enhanced performance, and energy efficiency.
• Data protection and security solutions leveraging integration with EMC RecoverPoint, EMC Invista, and RSA.
• Next-generation backup, archive, and deduplication solutions.

Professional services

Customers increasingly expect their infrastructure to deliver as a whole. By bringing together core network, server, applications and storage components, EMC and Brocade will offer customers simplified integrated solutions and additional economic efficiency within the data center. To implement these solutions, EMC and Brocade have developed—and are delivering—a robust professional services portfolio and mission-critical customer support, which together have driven the highest levels of customer satisfaction.

About Brocade

Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:BRCD) develops extraordinary networking solutions that enable today’s complex, data-intensive businesses to optimize information connectivity and maximize the business value of their data. Brocade is an industry leader in data center networking solutions and services that enable organizations to manage their most vital information assets. It’s no wonder that Global 500 companies rely on Brocade technology to keep their businesses running around the clock.

Brocade has pioneered the technologies that enable highly reliable and secure data center connectivity. Today most of the world’s data flows through Brocade equipment and data center networks built on Brocade technology.

For more information, visit www.brocade.com.