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Brocade CTO Dave Stevens Discusses the Brocade Virtualization Strategy

Posted by Marc Randall SEP 24, 2009 The Proof is in the Pudding (or the Products and the Partners, as the Case May Be) You know, for all the talk this industry does about "enabling experiences" and "driving lifestyles" and "changing the way we… do really everything," a company's success or failure really comes down to its ability to develop and sell products. That's right. It's not sexy, it's not flashy, but it's true. Mapping customers' needs to rack-mountable, blinking, port-filled boxes that allow them (as businesses) to focus on their core business rather than those boxes, is where the rubber meets the road, and where I think Brocade does a particularly outstanding job. read more

Posted By GURU MAY 26, 2009 Core Based Virtualization - Secure, Elastic and Deterministic Computing is Here…. I left the last blog with a teaser to stay tuned… now you know the "rest of the story". Well, actually, not the complete story but just the first chapter of more things to come from Brocade in the area of Application Delivery Control. Brocade just launched what we believe is the industry's best performing ADC product family – the "ServerIron ADX" family of products, designed ground up with "Operational Efficiency" in mind.

Cloud is all about OpEx. As I mentioned before in my previous blog, cloud computing is not just industry hype but, increasingly, a business driver today. It's not just a bunch of vendors needing something new to do… but it's really a "coming together of a bunch of small improvements in business efficiencies with another bunch of small but effective innovations in technology to bring in large scale operational efficiencies to an enterprise". I take this quote from one of our strategic partners, but I think it accurately describes how and why we designed the ADX line. read more

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The Virtual Enterprise Requires a Network That Is More Than "Good Enough" (pdf)

Best Practices for Virtual Infrastructure Management (pdf)

Q&A: Preparing the Data Center for Virtualization and Cloud Computing (pdf)

Viewpoint: Delivering Innovative Networks for Virtualized Data Centers (pdf)

Industry Leading Solutions to Transform Your Networks (pdf)

Brocade FCoE Solutions for Server I/O Convergence (pdf)

Facilitating a Holistic Virtualization Solution for the Data Center (pdf)

Get the Most out of Data Center Consolidation (pdf)

High Scalability, Future-Proof IPTV Delivery in Telco Networks (pdf)

Leveraging 8 Gbps Fibre Channel End to End in the Data Center (pdf)

NetApp Lifetime Key Management Appliance with Brocade Encryption Solutions (pdf)

Brocade Global Services – Helping Organizations Connect, Share, and Manage Data (pdf)

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Securing Fibre Channel Fabrics (pdf)

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• Brocade ServerIron ADX Family Application Delivery Controllers (flash)
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