Brocade and its extensive data center infrastructure and file management offerings have garnered awards from leading industry publications, storage networking associations, and other vendors. These awards reflect a commitment to developing products with the highest standards of excellence.
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Brocade 8000: Special Award, Best of Show Networking Infrastructure Product for Large Enterprise - Interop Tokyo 2009
The Brocade 8000 honorably received the Special Award, Best of Show Networking Infrastructure Product for Large Enterprise at Interop Tokyo 2009. The Brocade 8000 was the only FCoE/CEE switch which was demonstrated live at the show and the award recognizes this as the only End-to-End FCoE/CEE solution from servers to storage available in the market.
CEO Michael Klayko: Finalist, EE Times ACE Awards Executive of the Year, 2009
Brocade CEO Michael Klayko was one of five finalists for EE Times’ prestigious ACE Awards for Executive of the Year. This award goes to an executive who demonstrated leadership, technological and fiscal vision to a company, organization or company division during 2008.
Brocade DCX Backbone: Silver Award, Networking Equipment Products of the Year, 2008
The Brocade DCX Backbone received the Silver award in the Networking Equipment product category of Storage Magazine’s Product of the Year program. It was judged according to six key criteria: ease of integration, functionality, innovation, manageability, performance, and value. This award highlights Brocade's ongoing commitment to developing products with the highest standards of excellence for its customers.
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Brocade FastIron WS Series: Internet Telephony Product of the Year, 2008
Internet Telephony Magazine’s 2008 Internet Telephony Product of the Year Award was given to the Brocade FastIron WS Series. The award recognizes Brocade’s advancement of VoIP and IP communication technologies in 2008.
Brocade NetIron CES 2000 Series: 2008 Product of the Year - Communications Solutions

Brocade: Unified Communications Excellence Award, 2008

InformationWeek 500: Business Technology Innovators 2008

Brocade BigIron RX Series: Data Center and Storage Finalist – Best of Interop Las Vegas 2008

Brocade ServerIron Family: Application Delivery Controllers 2008 Product Leadership Award – SearchNetworking.com

Brocade DCX Backbone
Brocade DCX Backbone has been awarded "Best solution for the CPD" in the first call of the Comunicaciones Hoy Awards. The prizes were granted to the best IT products and solutions of 2008, with the aim of distinguishing the manufacturers of products and solutions that they have stood out in quality, innovation, productivity and design.
Brocade DCX Backbone
ITpro EXPO 2008 Award - Enterprise Category.
Brocade FastIron SuperX Family: 2007 Product of the Year - Unified Communications

InformationWeek 500: Business Technology Innovators 2007

Computerworld Honors Program Chairmen's Committee

Brocade NetIron XMR Series and NetIron MLX Series: Global Frost & Sullivan Award for Most Valued Product 2007
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Brocade Receives Distribution Industry 'Rising Star' Award
Brocade announced that it is a recipient of a 2007 Rising Star Award, presented by the Global Technology Distribution Council (GTDC) in recognition of the IT industry's fastest-growing manufacturers and publishers doing business with GTDC member distributors.
Brocade Customer NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital Takes Top Honors
NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, the clinical hospital of Columbia and Cornell Universities, received a Storage Networking World (SNW) "Best Practices in Storage" award in the category of Storage Reliability and Data Recovery during the SNW Spring 2007 Conference held in April. SNW’s twice-yearly "Best Practices in Storage" Awards Program acknowledges excellence among users of storage technology. Honorees were announced during the "Best Practices in Storage" awards dinner on April 18 at the Manchester Grand Hyatt in San Diego, California.
Brocade SAN Director Wins Gold for Storage Product of the Year
Brocade announced that the Brocade 48000 Director has been named the Gold award winner in TechTarget's annual Storage Product of the Year Awards Program. The editors of Storage magazine and SearchStorage.com — as well as a team of users, industry experts, analysts, and consultants — judged hundreds of products according to six key criteria: ease of integration, functionality, innovation, manageability, performance, and value. This award further highlights Brocade's commitment to developing products with the highest standards of excellence for its customers.
Brocade Customer Pacific Title and Art Studio Earns "Oscar" in Storage Networking World's
Pacific Title and Art Studio's implementation of its SAN based on Brocade 48000 directors has been recognized by IDG's Computerworld and the Storage Networking Industry Association as a winner of the "Best Practices in Storage" Award.
Big Bytes SAN Award for Brocade 4900
The Brocade 4900 Switch claimed the Big Bytes award for the best storage networking product in the SAN category. The award is determined by a panel of Byte and Switch editors and an independent advisory board drawn from across the industry.
InfoStor MVP Award for the Brocade 48000
For the second straight year, Brocade technology was recognized as "best of the best" in the annual InfoStor MVP award list. This year, the Brocade 48000 Director was named MVP for the Networking Equipment by InfoStor as a result of end-user support for the product. The MVP award is heavily determined by storage end users, including 38,000 InfoStor readers and more than 2000 members of the Association of Storage Networking Professionals (ASNP). Readers and members selected the 48000 over nominated solutions from McDATA, QLogic, Riverbed Technology, and Tacit Networks.
2006 InfoWorld Technology of the Year Award: Mi10K
The Mi10K wowed us with great features such as fabric partitioning and long-distance capabilities. Not only was it the best SAN switch we tested, but the highest scorer among all SAN products. The Mi10K Director was awarded perfect "10's" for performance and scalability, and high scores in management, reliability, interoperability and value.
2006 China Information World Editor's Choice Award: M4700
Its high performance, flexibility, ease of use and cost efficiency earned the 4Gb/s M4700 Fabric Switch the Editor's Choice award from CIW, a leading technology publication in China.
2006 IT168 Merit Award: Mi10K
Mi10K Director was in an elite group of winners — the Merit Award was one of only four awards given this year from IT168, the largest IT product acquisition website in China. Among the noted capabilities was the i10K's ability to share Fibre Channel and FICON traffic on the same director.
Brocade NetIron XMR 32000: Best of Show - Interop Tokyo 2006

Brocade: 2006 Frost & Sullivan Award for Product Differentiation Innovation
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Brocade: The VoIP Magazine 20 – Companies to Watch in 2006

Brocade BigIron RX Series: Best of Show - Interop Tokyo 2005

Brocade BigIron RX Series: Best of Show - Networld+Interop Vegas 2005

Brocade BigIron RX Series: Best Product Network Infrastructure Category - Networld+Interop Vegas 2005

Brocade FastIron Edge X Series: Product of the Year 2004 - China ComputerWorld

Brocade ServerIronGT E Series: Best of Show - Networld+Interop Tokyo 2004

Brocade NetIron 40G: Special Prize - Networld+Interop Tokyo 2004

Brocade NetIron 40G and Brocade BigIron MG8: Products of the Year – SearchNetworking.com 2003
