The key to an effective storage network is implementing SAN infrastructure solutions from a proven industry leader. And if you want the best SAN for your unique environment, you need the right technical training, tools, and certification from the SAN experts.

With the industry's most comprehensive set of SAN resources, Brocade is focused on helping you expand your knowledge, improve your productivity, and validate your expertise. To learn how, be sure to check out these valuable tools and technical resources today:

• Brocade SAN Health: This free software utility helps you analyze your SAN environment to keep it running as efficiently as possible.
• Brocade Education: Web-based SAN courses and classroom training are ongoing for your convenience, with training schedules available online.
• Brocade Certification: Brocade Certification programs enable you to validate your SAN expertise as a SAN professional, designer, or manager.
• Brocade Connect: This free online SAN user community features the latest SAN information, including technical tips, tools, and documents as well as exclusive members-only offers.
• Exclusive Resources for Brocade Partners: Brocade Partners can find the latest news about Brocade products and programs on the information-packed Brocade Partner Network site.

To help you fine-tune your SAN environment, Brocade has created a comprehensive but easy-to-use analysis and reporting utility that automates many time-consuming SAN diagnostic management tasks. Available as a free download, SAN Health enables you to inventory devices, track historical performance data, generate detailed Visio diagrams, and much more. SAN Health can even identify potential problems and provide recommended changes based on best practices. (If you're a Brocade Partner, you can also share the SAN Health utility with your own customers).

Brocade Education offers a variety of advanced SAN design and management training directly from the SAN experts. You can participate in innovative Web-based courses (through the Brocade Virtual Classroom) as well as hands-on classroom training at facilities in Atlanta, San Jose, and Geneva, Switzerland. For added flexibility, a remote SAN lab featuring state-of-the-art equipment is available for 24-hour access from anywhere in the world. And with a worldwide network of certified training partners, the Brocade Education team can even deliver onsite training at your own facility.

Brocade Certification programs are designed to acknowledge individuals who have demonstrated the skills to design, implement, support, and manage SANs that utilize Brocade solutions. You can gain instant credibility by validating your SAN expertise and joining over 3500 SAN professionals who have achieved certification at the following levels:     

Brocade Certified SAN Designer

    

Brocade Certified SAN Manager

To help you increase your SAN knowledge, Brocade has created Brocade Connect, a free technical online resource center for the worldwide community of Brocade SAN users. Brocade Connect is your one-stop source for tools and tips that can optimize your productivity.

Valuable resources include message boards, technical guides and manuals, release notes, product evaluations, newsletters, free utilities, and exclusive members-only benefits. In addition, you can share your scripts and helpful advice with more than 12,000 of your peers worldwide.

Brocade is focused on helping its partners sell Brocade SAN solutions in a wide variety of markets around the world. If you are involved in selling Brocade-based SAN solutions, Brocade can help you increase your SAN knowledge, improve your productivity, and validate your expertise with a variety of sales and marketing tools, technical training, and certification. A comprehensive Web portal exclusively for Brocade Partners, the Brocade Partner Network contains an abundance of useful information about Brocade SAN solutions and how to market and sell them.

To further enhance your sales effectiveness, Brocade University provides complimentary half-day seminars where you can improve your SAN knowledge, better understand market trends, and much more.