Brocade employees hold the current leadership positions in industry and standards organizations.

T11 is the governing body for all Fibre Channel related standards. Brocade plays an active role in several standards workgroups including 10 Gbit/sec Fibre Channel, security, and switch management, and has authored or co-authored many of the ANSI T11 Fibre Channel Standards.

• Bob Snively, Brocade Principal Engineer, is overall Chair of the T11 Technical Committee.
• Steve Wilson, Director Technology & Standards Engineering, is the Editor of FC-SW-4 standard and facilitator for the FC-BB-3 working group
• Ed McClanahan, Principal Engineer, is Editor of the FAIS standard for fabric applications

Bob Snively Chairs the XFP MSA Industry Association.

SNIA is a not-for-profit organization committed to delivering standards, education, and services to advance open storage networking solutions into the marketplace.

• Steve Wilson is a member of the SNIA Technical Committee. John Crandall is chair of the SNIA Fibre Channel Technical Work Group.
• John Crandall is the Brocade representative on the SMI Technical Work Group and SNIA Liaison to the DMTF.

The DMTF, developer of the CIM standard, is the industry organization leading the development, adoption, and interoperability of management standards for enterprise and Internet environments.

• John Crandall is a member of the DMTF Technical Council and the Vice-Chair of the DMTF Systems and Device Working Group.