Brocade

About Brocade

Brocade provides innovative network solutions that help the world’s leading organizations transition smoothly to a virtualized world where applications and information can reside anywhere. These solutions deliver the unique capabilities for a more flexible IT infrastructure with unmatched simplicity, non-stop networking, application optimization, and investment protection.

As a result, organizations in a wide range of industries can achieve their most critical business objectives with greater simplicity and a faster return on investment.

Cloud-Optimized Solutions

Regardless of the model - private, public or hybrid - the simplicity, uptime and capabilities of the network will ultimately define application performance and the user experience in the cloud. Brocade's cloud-optimized networks span across multiple customer segments, architectures and applications and its heritage in both data center and IP networking uniquely positions the company to deliver a comprehensive portfolio for private, public and hybrid clouds.

Enabling Cloud-Optimized Networks

The Brocade vision for organizations that are considering cloud deployment is simple: Networks must be cloud-optimized at every critical point because they will define the application performance and the end-user experience within the cloud. With a strong heritage in both IP and storage networking, Brocade uniquely delivers solutions that are capable of providing data center-class capabilities across the entire network.

This unmatched expertise helps organizations extend their IT assets and services anywhere and everywhere data and applications are accessed—a key step in the migration to cloud architectures.

Brocade One Strategy

The guiding principle in leading the transformation to the cloud is the Brocade One strategy, which is based on enabling a smooth transition based on four imperatives:

1. Offering unmatched simplicity by removing architectural complexity and reducing operational and management costs
2. Providing a new level of network scalability, uptime, and performance throughnon-stop networking
3. Supporting current and future applications that run on the network throughapplication optimization
4. Delivering investment protection with best-in-class solutions through an open, multivendor network architecture

Leading the Way to Cloud Migration

Today there is a massive shift in how people consume information at the very edges of the network. Fueled by the promise of the cloud, mobility, and today's data-rich applications, the network itself is undergoing a transformation. Brocade is the networking company committed to helping organizations transition smoothly to a world where information and applications reside and can be accessed anywhere. And Brocade can do this today.