Brocade Data Center Solutions Featured in Microsoft Technology Centers Worldwide
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Microsoft Demonstrates Evolving Data Center Infrastructures with Industry-Leading Brocade SAN, FAN, and Server Connectivity Solutions
SAN JOSE, Calif., Nov. 5 -- Brocade® (NASDAQ:BRCD), a leader in data center networking solutions that help enterprises connect and manage their information, today announced that it has been selected to showcase and demonstrate its industry-leading data center solutions at Microsoft Technology Centers (MTCs) worldwide. MTCs provide enterprise customers with the opportunity to evaluate leading-edge and customized technology solutions from Microsoft and other leading vendors before deploying the solutions in their own environments.
"Today's enterprises require their data centers to be available 24x7, and many turn to Brocade solutions to provide the reliability, scalability, and ease of management required to power mission-critical data center environments," said Jens Moberg, Corporate Vice President of the U.S. Enterprise Partner Group, Microsoft. "By hosting Brocade products in our data centers, the Microsoft Technology Centers enable our customers to evaluate solutions based on Brocade and Microsoft technologies as they make preparations to evolve and build out their next-generation data centers."
MTCs are state-of-the-art facilities staffed by technology experts and supported by industry leaders to help customers envision, architect, and demonstrate Microsoft and partner solutions to solve their business problems. MTCs provide three types of offerings-strategy briefings, architecture design sessions, and proof-of-concept workshops-each of which focuses on a different stage of a customer's search for a solution.
"The Microsoft Technology Centers provide Brocade a valuable opportunity to demonstrate how data centers will evolve in customized, real-world environments," said Tom Buiocchi, Brocade Vice President of Worldwide Marketing. "Brocade is enabling data centers of all sizes and helping our customers solve the challenges of unprecedented data growth; data security and protection; and data center efficiency."
The Brocade suite of Storage Area Network (SAN) infrastructure and server connectivity solutions includes industry-leading switches, directors, routers, embedded switches for blade servers, fabric-based applications, and Host Bust Adaptors (HBAs), as well as management applications and utilities to centralize data management. Brocade SAN and server connectivity solutions featured in the MTCs include the Brocade 48000 Director, the Brocade Fibre Channel (FC) HBA, and Brocade Access Gateway. Brocade FC SAN products support standards-based N_Port ID Virtualization (NPIV), complementing Microsoft's virtualization strategy by optimizing blade server and server virtualization solutions with Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager.
Brocade SAN and server connectivity products help customers save costs through high performance, high density, and lower power consumption. Since the inception of the Microsoft Storage Partner Program, Brocade has worked closely with Microsoft to ensure that Brocade SAN infrastructure and server connectivity solutions support Windows environments.
Additionally, the entire Brocade File Area Network (FAN) suite of products, including Brocade StorageX®, uniquely utilizes Microsoft Windows-based technologies, such as Distributed File System (DFS), Active Directory (AD), and Common Internet File Services (CIFS), to help customers better manage their Windows-based file data enterprise-wide. The Brocade suite of FAN solutions helps customers optimize server and storage assets, increase operational flexibility, improve data availability, and significantly reduce overall storage costs in heterogeneous, distributed computing environments. The solutions provide IT administrators with policies for automating many file data management tasks, including data tiering; migration and consolidation replication, and failover.
About Brocade
Brocade is a leading provider of data center networking solutions that help organizations connect, share, and manage their information in the most efficient manner. Organizations that use Brocade products and services are better able to optimize their IT infrastructures and ensure compliant data management. For more information, visit the Brocade Web site at www.brocade.com/ or contact the company at info@brocade.com.
Source: Brocade
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