Brocade Corporate Profile

Founded in 1995, Brocade is an industry leader in providing reliable, high-performance network solutions that help the world's leading organizations transition smoothly to a virtualized world where applications and information reside anywhere.

Today, Brocade is extending its proven data center expertise across the entire network with future-proofed solutions built for consolidation, network convergence, virtualization, and cloud computing.

Headquartered in San Jose, California, the company has approximately 4000 employees worldwide and serves a wide range of industries and customers in more than 160 countries. With a complete family of Ethernet, storage, and converged networking solutions, Brocade helps organizations achieve their most critical business objectives through:

• Unmatched simplicity to overcome today's complexity
• Non-stop networking to maximize business uptime
• Optimized applications to increase business agility and gain a competitive advantage
• Investment protection to provide a smooth transition to new technologies while leveraging existing infrastructure

Brocade combines a proven track record of expertise, innovation, and new technology development with open standards leadership and strategic partnerships with the world's leading IT companies. This extensive partner ecosystem enables truly best-in-class business solutions. To ensure a comprehensive solution, Brocade also provides a full range of education, support, and professional services offerings.