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Headquartered in San Jose, California, Brocade has approximately 5000 employees worldwide and serves a wide range of industries and customers in more than 160 countries. Today, it leads the Storage Area Network (SAN) market with the industry’s most reliable, energy-efficient offerings. In addition, Brocade provides innovative Ethernet fabric technology and high-performance Ethernet networking solutions as part of a complete switching, routing, security, wireless, and application delivery portfolio.
To meet the increasing requirements of distributed and mobile computing, Brocade is extending its proven data center expertise throughout the entire network. This approach helps organizations achieve their most critical consolidation, network convergence, virtualization, and cloud computing initiatives through a commitment to:
• Unmatched simplicity to overcome complexity
• Non-stop networking to maximize business uptime
• Application optimization to increase business agility
• Investment protection to provide a smooth transition to new technologies
Brocade combines a proven history of innovation with standards leadership and strategic partnerships with world-class IT companies. Supporting the industry’s most extensive partner ecosystem facilitates open, best-in-class solutions for the broadest range of IT environments. To help ensure a complete, solution, Brocade delivers a full range of education, support, and professional services offerings.
Learn more at www.brocade.com.
Contact information
Address
Brocade Communications UK Ltd
One the Braccans
Bracknell
Berkshire
RG12 2XH
Telephone: 44 020 8432 5200
Email: info@brocade.com
Website: www.brocade.com
Press Releases
Brocade Ethernet Fabric Helps Leading Media Group Pave Way for Virtual Data Center
62000_TechDay11DePersgroep_FINAL.pdf 56.11 kB
Brocade Enables Service Provider Business Model Transformation via Breakthrough Public Cloud-Optimized Networking Solutions
62001_TechDay11SPRelease_FINAL.pdf 62.45 kB
Brocade Unveils Vision for the Virtual Enterprise
62003_TechDay11Cloudplex_FINAL.pdf 50.54 kB
Brocade Advances Data Center Fabric Leadership with Innovative Private Cloud-Optimized Networking Solutions
62138_TechDayPrivateCloudRelease5311FINALv.pdf 57.78 kB
AMS-IX and Limelight Networks Field-Test Brocade 100 Gigabit Ethernet Technology to Stay Ahead of Internet Growth
AMS-IX_LimeLight_100GbE win_FINAL.pdf 114.47 kB
Sand, Sea and Smartphones: European Holidaymakers Cannot Leave the Internet at Home
European Holidaymakers Cannot Leave the Internet at Home.pdf 101.95 kB
IPv4 Addresses Dry Up; Brocade Customers Years Ahead With Proven IPv6-Ready Solutions
IPv4 Addresses Dry Up.docx.pdf; Brocade Customers Years Ahead With Proven IPv6-Ready Solutions.pdf 101.43 kB
Brocade Unlocks the Power of the Cloud through Open, Multivendor Virtual Compute Blocks
CloudPlex Momentum NR 8-30-11 .docx 49.66 kB
Brocade Advances Ethernet Fabric Innovation to Unleash the Power of Virtualization
Ethernet Fabric Momentum.docx 45.58 kB
Brocade Revolutionizes IT Economics with Subscription-Based Pricing for Network Infrastructure
Brocade Network Subscription_FINAL.docx 64.89 kB
Case Studies
De Persgroep
De Persgroep reaps benefits of Brocade VDX 6720 Data Center Switches by improving network utilization and performance, while laying the foundation for migration to clouds.Ethernet Fabric Helps Leading Media Group Pave Way for Virtual Data Center
| De Persgroep reaps benefits of Brocade VDX 6720 Data Center Switches by improving network utilization and performance, while laying the foundation for migration to clouds. | |
| More than 1.6 billion people globally read a hardcopy newspaper each day, and publishing houses must ensure that they can cope with continued demand while leveraging their revenue opportunities, expected to be worth $120 billion per year. In an effort to take advantage of these opportunities, Brussels-based media group, De Persgroep, has turned to Brocade (Nasdaq: BRCD) to deploy Europe’s first Ethernet fabric switching solution to manage out of control data growth, so it can continue to deliver hard-hitting news to its 1.5 million daily readers. | |
“Selecting Brocade was an easy decision. In its Ethernet fabric solution we didn’t find a class-leading solution, but a total revelation. In just a short-period of time we have noticed a marked improvement in network performance. Backup failures have disappeared and the fabric architecture has increased utilization and reliability, while simplifying management by an order of magnitude. In addition, as we look to accelerate our virtualization strategy, this approach provides virtual machines a greater sphere of mobility and gives us a blueprint for future growth.”
Wim Vanhoof
ICT Infrastructure Manager at De Persgroep
AMS-IX talks about Brocade 100 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) technology
Henk Steenman, CTO at AMS-IX, discusses how Brocade's 100 GbE technology has helped the Internet Exchange Point (IXP) engineer a peering architecture to ensure that it can stay ahead of Internet growth and cater for the demands of consumers.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bXxMzTd5Ro
Whitepapers
Data Center Evolution without Revolution
Brocade networking solutions help organizations transition smoothly to a world where information and applications can reside anywhere.DataCenterEvolution_Without_Revolution_WP.pdf 348.23 kB
Ethernet Fabrics and Brocade VCS Technology: Networking for the Virtualized Data Center
As data centers evolve to a world where information and applications can move anywhere in the cloud, classic Ethernet with its hierarchical architecture also has to evolve to a new data center “Ethernet fabric.”Ethernet_Fabrics_Cloud_Networking_WP.pdf 1.26 MB
Introducing Brocade VCS Technology
Brocade VCS technology is designed to revolutionize the way data center networks are architected and how they function.Introducing_Brocade_VCS_WP.pdf 1.59 MB
How Will the Change in Internet Addresses Affect Your Business?
The Internet has become indispensible for business and government world-wide not to mention the estimated 2 billion individuals who connect to it every day. This enormous popularity has lead to near depletion of Internet Protocol (IP) addresses needed to uniquely identify each device using the Internet. Running out of Internet addresses would have disastrous worldwide consequences, as the ability to add and connect new devices would come to a halt. A new and much larger type of address known as IPv6 avoids this issue. But the IPv6 address is not compatible with the current address type. Further, it’s not possible or economically desirable to replace all networking equipment and all devices to IPv6 all at once. What’s needed are solutions that allow IPv6 to co-exist with the existing IP address type, IPv4, and for electronic information using one address type to be delivered to devices using the other. This paper will help you better understand what IPv6 is, why address exhaustion does not impact all businesses and regions the same, and what the options are for peaceful co-existence of IPv6 with IPv4 on the internet.IPV6_WP_00.pdf 662.14 kB
What Is an Ethernet Fabric?
Compared to classic hierarchical Ethernet architectures, Ethernet fabrics provide the higher levels of performance, utilization, availability and simplicity required to meet the business needs of data centers today and into the future.What_Are_Ethernet_Fabrics_WP.pdf 1.27 MB
Products
Brocade FastIron Edge X Series
H igh Performance, Intelligent Switches Delivering 10 GbE Edge to Coreds-fi-edge-x.pdf 1.34 MB
Brocade FCX Series
Enterprise-Class Stackable Switches for the Network Edgefcx-series-ds.pdf 836.75 kB
Brocade VDX 6720 Data Centre Switches
Revolutionizing the Way Data Center Networks Are Builtvdx_6720_ds.pdf 1.28 MB
Scalable Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Using Brocade’s CloudPlex Architecture
This paper describes how Brocade’s CloudPlex architecture enables large-scale deployment of virtual desktop infrastructure: tens of thousands of desktops on a global scale. It identifies the challenges in the data center, campus LAN and wide area networks that need to be considered and reviews how key elements of the CloudPlex architecture including fabrics, open systems and global reach, effectively meet these challenges.CloudPlexArchitecture_GA-TB-393-00_R5.pdf 3.49 MB
Enabling On-Demand Application Resources in the Data Center
GA-AG-1576-00.pdf 507.05 kB
Introducing Brocade VCS Technology
Brocade VCS technology is designed to revolutionize the way data center networks are architected and how they function.Introducing_Brocade_VCS_WP.pdf 1.59 MB
Brocade ServerIron ADX
High-Performance Application Delivery for Physical and Virtualized Environmentsserveriron-adx-ds.pdf 869.60 kB
Enabling Simultaneous IPv6 and IPv4 Application Services
SI_ADX_12.2_IPv6_GA-AG-00.pdf 667.76 kB
