Brocade Customers and Partners Provide Unified Support for Ethernet Fabric Solutions to Enable Cloud-Optimized Networks

Brocade Conference-- Brocade^® (Nasdaq:BRCD) customers, technology partners, OEMs and channel partners today voiced their support and excitement around the recently announced first true Ethernet fabric switching solutions from Brocade. Through the launch of the new Brocade VDX™ 6720 Data Center Switches, the first products to deliver Brocade VCS^™ technology, Brocade is creating a new class of technologies that are purpose-built for highly virtualized and cloud-optimized data centers.

Brocade VDX 6720-24 Data Center Switch (Photo: Business Wire)

Architecting highly virtualized and cloud-optimized data centers requires close collaboration between a wide variety of partners to simplify the customer experience, protect existing investments and enable greater choice of server, hypervisor and storage offerings. Brocade VDX 6720 Data Center Switches truly deliver upon the Brocade One™ unified network strategy and value proposition by dramatically simplifying networks and increasing scalability without adding complexity.

Brocade Customer Quotes and Videos:

• Atos Origin: "…VCS will enable us to manage an entire data center as a single giant logical switch which means reduced complexity and simplification of management.”
  - Adil Tahiri, Technology Strategy Director, Office of the CTO, Atos Origin
  • Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMmXRyU6COw
• Dell IT: "Brocade’s Virtual Cluster Switching technology addresses our need to rapidly scale our virtualized data center environment and achieve high service levels, while reducing network complexity. We can build large, flatter networks with greater performance that are much simpler to manage. It means scalability at lower cost – that’s a big win for us.”
  - Pat Robach, Sr. Manager Cloud Services, Dell
  • Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JTaMS7e98I

Brocade Technology Partner Quote and Video:

• VMware: "Today more and more customers are moving toward virtualized cloud infrastructures to significantly reduce IT cost and complexity, increase efficiency and improve agility. Brocade’s new VCS technology and the innovative VDX product line present customers with a tremendous opportunity to simplify, scale and easily manage their virtualized data center network, offering a next step for customers implementing the IT-as-a-Service model.”
  - Parag Patel, VP, Global Strategic Alliances, VMware
  • Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_zWxYe7fvs

Brocade OEM Partner Quotes and Videos:

• Dell: "Dell and Brocade share a common vision for delivering highly-virtualized, services-on-demand environments through the cloud. The key to this vision is providing customers true choice and flexibility regardless of particular cloud model. Brocade's introduction of the VDX family of switches with VCS technology is an innovative step to realizing fully cloud-optimized data centers.”
  - Dario Zamarian, VP and GM, Dell Networking

• EMC Corporation: "We are helping customers around the world on their journey to the private cloud by providing a simple and efficient information infrastructure. Together with Brocade we can accelerate our customers’ journey to a consolidated, elastic private cloud with unified storage and Ethernet networking solutions that now includes the innovative family of Brocade VDX 6720 Data Center switches.”
  - Josh Kahn, Vice President, Technical Marketing and Solutions
  • Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idS6tCe8-FQ
• NetApp: "What excites me most about Brocade’s new announcement of the VDX switches is how it makes it easier for customers to converge their networks around 10 GbE. This convergence will allow Brocade and NetApp to help our joint customers simplify their IT infrastructure while building more flexible and efficient networks that can easily scale to meet the changing needs of their business.”
  - Joel Reich, vice president and general manager, SAN/iSAN business unit
  • Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nmKIp96ygQ

Brocade Executive Video:

• Jason Nolet, VP, Data Center and Enterprise Networking Group, Brocade: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyJeCw9IREg

Join the Conversation:

• Discuss this event on Twitter using #ethernetfabric
• Check out www.ethernetfabric.com for news, videos and stories from the event
• Follow @ethernetfabric to keep up with the future of cloud-optimized networks
• Join the Ethernet Fabric Online Discussion Forum: http://community.brocade.com/ethernetfabric
• Read the Brocade VCS Technology Blog: http://blogs.brocade.com/vcs
• Join the Online "Ask the Expert” Series Event: http://community.brocade.com/asktheexpert
• Learn more about the Brocade VDX Data Center switches: www.brocade.com/VDX
• View Brocade VDX product photos: http://tinyurl.com/39n85fe

About Brocade

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