Brocade offers a wide range of flexible Professional Services that are designed to align with an organization's critical business challenges and corporate objectives. These Professional Services can help organizations manage the entire lifecycle of their storage requirements, including an analysis of business requirements, a design of the appropriate solution, and the implementation and ongoing management of the SAN and IT infrastructure. In this way, Professional Services are a key part of a comprehensive solution from Brocade.

Delivering these services are Brocade SAN and solution consultants, who have extensive experience in:

• Large IT infrastructure design and implementation
• Project planning and management methodologies
• Best-practices design and implementation
• In-house labs for design validation and training

Today, Brocade offers Professional Services in two areas:

• SAN Services
• FAN Services

Brocade SAN Services are designed to help organizations maximize their investments in storage networking infrastructure solutions and increase the utilization of their storage and server resources. Key offerings include:

• SAN Data Infrastructure Management Services
• SAN Data Migration Services
• SAN Remote Office Optimization and Connectivity
• SAN Data Access and Business Continuity Services
• SAN Security Services

Brocade Mainframe Services provide a wide range of field-proven tools and expertise to support the most critical business objectives.

Brocade FAN Services are designed to help organizations streamline data management in their file-based networks, utilizing innovative software solutions for easier file access and sharing. Key offerings include:

• File Data Infrastructure Management Services
• File Data Migration Services
• Remote Optimization and Connectivity
• File Data Access and Business Continuity Services

Brocade Resident Consultants are technical project managers who reside part or full time at a chosen data center for the duration of a Brocade Support contract. These professionals are senior engineers who have access to a vast Brocade knowledge base and the ability to leverage many strategic Brocade partnerships to help resolve issues in heterogeneous IT environments.

Brocade Professional Services offerings span five key tasks to help organizations manage their business information in SAN and FAN environments:

• Assess
• Design
• Implement
• Manage
• Evolve

Brocade can help organizations assess new or existing technologies and their potential impact on a given IT infrastructure.

To facilitate continued growth, organizations must be able to integrate new applications, products, and technologies into their current mission-critical environments. Brocade design services utilize in-depth expertise, best-practice methodologies, and productivity-enhancing tools to address that requirement in the most non-disruptive manner.

For organizations that need help deploying Brocade products, Brocade implementation services are designed to optimize existing environments and support the migration to the latest technologies in the most seamless manner possible.

As the solutions running in a particular IT infrastructure evolve, Brocade management services help ensure that organizations continue to operate at the required level of performance. This approach utilizes Brocade management tools to proactively identify what changes might need to occur in order to prevent problems.

Deciding which architectures, technologies, and products to deploy - and when to deploy them - is not always a straightforward process. Brocade can assist during any stage of a project, utilizing best-practice methodologies and tools to evolve and scale an IT infrastructure over time.