Brocade Bookshelf

Brocade helps establish the technical standards that govern the functionality of data center fabrics and file management. As part of our commitment to increase expertise in these areas, Brocade is developing a series of technical resource books written specifically to empower IT professionals.

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Jon Fullmer
Jon Fullmer has held over 200 industry certifications, including FNCNE and CCNP. He has immersed himself in technology for over 25 years, focusing on various aspects from network design to assembly language programming. He has worked as a network designer and engineer for several companies, and has focused his expertise on Internet-facing infrastructures. Currently, he works as a Senior Infrastructure Engineer for the Family History department of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Jon currently Lives in Cottonwood Heights, Utah with his wife, Becky, and four children (Rachel, Jacob, James, and Joseph). He also lives with his collection of computers and other technology-related peripherals that he has accrued over the past 25 years. He lovingly refers to this collection as “the museum.”

Tom Clark
Tom Clark was a resident SAN evangelist for Brocade and represented Brocade in industry associations, conducted seminars and tutorials at conferences and trade shows, promoted Brocade storage networking solutions, and acted as a customer liaison. A noted author and industry advocate of storage networking technology, he was a board member of the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) and former Chair of the SNIA Green Storage Initiative. Clark has published hundreds of articles and white papers on storage networking. Sadly, Tom passed away in February 2010 and “The New Data Center” is his last book-length publication.

Ahmad Zamer
Ahmad is responsible for new technology protocols at Brocade, helping evangelize and drive the adoption of new networking and storage technologies such as FCoE, DCB/CEE, and TRILL. Ahmad is a high tech veteran with more than 25 years of global computer networking and networked storage industry experience. Most recently, at Intel, he led the introduction of iSCSI to the marketplace and helped drive market adoption. He is a patent holder and an author with more than 50 published articles covering a wide range of technology topics and a frequent speaker at industry events.

Chip Copper
As a Brocade Solutioneer, Chip tracks the SAN market and serves as a resource to customers, partners, and integrators--helping them solve real-world business problems through SANs. Copper has over 30 years of experience in program management and information systems with a broad technical background. He has a Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh in the area of Distributed Computing.

Roger Bouchard
Roger Bouchard has been in the computer industry since 1978. He has taught IT security courses since 1994 and has been focused exclusively on the storage industry since 1996. Since Mr. Bouchard joined Brocade in 2000, he has obtained numerous certifications, including CISSP certification in 2005 and an M. Sc. in Information Assurance (MSIA) from Norwich University. While he was in the Services group, he developed processes for SAN Security Assessments and SAN Hardening engagements delivered across North America. He is currently a Global Solutions Architect, and in this role has written several white papers on SAN security and is a frequent speaker at storage/SAN conferences.

Josh Judd
Josh Judd is a Principal Engineer in Brocade Technical Marketing. In addition to writing, he provides support for roadmap activities, writes new product requirements, and works directly with systems engineers, OEMs and end-users worldwide.

When he first came to work for Brocade, Josh was the company's senior IT technical resource, responsible for escalations and the architectural design of all network, server, and desktop infrastructure world wide. His previous experience, degree, and certifications are IT-related. He was the first "Senior SAN Architect" at Brocade, which means that he was one of the first full-time professional FC SAN designers in the world.