New Innovations in Ethernet Fabrics are Revolutionising Virtualised Data Centres

As Marketing Manager for Brocade EMEA, Alan Murphy is responsible for defining and executing the company’s EMEA strategic data centre go to market efforts. This includes leading the overall go to market strategy across the Channel, OEM and Direct routes to market . He joined Brocade in October 2010, bringing over 20 years of experience in the high-tech industry. Prior to Brocade, Murphy worked at Intel, where he held several positions with responsibilities for sales and marketing efforts related to Embedded, Server and Client technologies into Service Provider and Enterprise Data Centre. He is a frequent speaker across the industry and has contributed to articles in the Economist, Network World and Computer Weekly

Brocade® (Nasdaq: BRCD) networking solutions help the world’s leading organizations transition smoothly to a world where applications and information reside anywhere. From data centers and enterprise campus networks to the service provider core, these solutions are based on the Brocade One™ strategy for simplifying network infrastructures through innovative technologies.

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.