Partners Brocade

Headquarters - San Jose, California

Employees - Nearly 1000 worldwide

Company profile

Brocade delivers industry-leading platforms and solutions for intelligently connecting, managing, and optimizing IT resources in shared storage environments. Many of the world's premier systems, server, and storage providers offer the Brocade SilkWorm family of fabric switches and software as the foundation for SAN solutions in organizations of all sizes. In addition, the Brocade Tapestry family of application infrastructure solutions extends the ability to manage and optimize application and information resources proactively across the enterprise. Using Brocade solutions, organizations are better positioned to reduce cost, manage complexity, and satisfy business compliance requirements through optimized use and management of their application infrastructures.

Relationship with Unisys

Unisys incorporates the Brocade SilkWorm family of fabric switches into the heterogeneous SAN solutions developed for Unisys customers. These fabric switches deliver a networked model for storage, enabling companies to significantly reduce the total cost of ownership of their data storage environments, while improving network and application efficiency and performance.

Unisys is a Brocade Fabric Access and OEM Partner. Unisys and Brocade have built a strong partnership to provide customers with end-to-end infrastructure solutions for their data storage and business continuance needs. Unisys uses Brocade fabric switches to provide a scalable, reliable networking platform to connect Unisys servers with Unisys open-systems storage solutions and other leading suppliers, such as EMC and StorageTek.

Solutions

The Brocade SilkWorm Family of Fibre Channel Fabric switches and software is the only full-fabric standards-based connectivity solution available today for SANs. These products create an intelligent connectivity infrastructure, or Fabric, to support connectivity of a wide range of host and storage types. Users share these resources efficiently in a SAN. Fabric services are deployed automatically and transparently throughout the Fabric to assure it is resilient to failures. The Fabric is scalable, expanding rapidly to increasing demands by users for highly available, heterogeneous access to growing storage pools.

Partner corporate site

www.brocade.com