Brocade and IBM can help simplify IT management, increasing availability, optimizing performance, and enabling remote maintenance with an intelligent system design that includes multiple layers of redundancy combined with advanced availability tools.

• Unleashes the full potential of storage with unmatched scalability, performance, and reliability
• Optimizes data center connectivity over distance with integrated high-performance metro and global connectivity
• Protects investments in existing Storage while reducing operational costs and minimizing business disruption
• Highest-performing and most reliable FICON infrastructure with the industry's fastest and most scalable System z mainframes
• Provide a one-stop shop for end-to-end storage management

IBM Customers Continue to Choose Brocade for:

• Delivering unmatched simplicity by removing architectural complexity and reducing operational costs
• Providing new levels of network scalability, uptime, and performance through non-stop networking
• Supporting current and future applications that run on the network through application optimization
• Delivering investment protection with best-in-class solutions and greater choice through an open, multivendor network architecture

POWER IN PARTNERSHIP
"IBM sees tremendous value in an improved data center architecture that emphasizes energy efficiency and reduced power consumption, and we're pleased to have a relationship with Brocade that will enable us to deliver solutions to customers that will help to reduce their cost of operation via a simplified architecture and easier management," said Robert Mahoney, Business Line Executive, Storage Networking.