Brocade solutions provide a reliable foundation to help organizations maximize the value of their technology investments and data throughout mission-critical data centers and extended enterprise environments.

Brocade products are designed to help IT organizations manage and profit from their data assets in the most efficient, cost-effective manner. To do so, Brocade products leverage industry-leading technologies that solve a wide range of challenges in shared storage data center environments.

The Brocade family of data center networking solutions includes data center backbones and Storage Area Network (SAN) products such as industry-leading switches, directors, routers, embedded switches for blade servers, fabric-based applications, and management software. Additional data center infrastructure solutions include intelligent file management solutions for file data and storage resources in File Area Network (FAN) environments.

Together, these products provide innovative, reliable solutions that simplify IT infrastructure, increase resource utilization, and maximize return on investment.

Residing at the core of the Brocade Data Center Fabric (DCF) architecture, the Brocade DCX Backbone is a new and highly robust class of network infrastructure that supports both open systems and mainframe environments. Designed to meet a wide range of technology challenges for evolving enterprise data centers, the Brocade DCX combines breakthrough performance, scalability, and energy efficiency with long-term investment protection.

Industry-leading Brocade switches are the foundation for connecting servers and storage devices in SANs, enabling organizations to access and share data in a high-performance, manageable, and scalable manner.

The explosive growth of data storage and the associated proliferation of file servers and NAS appliances has resulted in acute management challenges for IT administrators and data access issues for both users and applications. Brocade FAN solutions help organizations address these issues along with many additional business challenges.

As data continues to grow at an unprecedented rate, IT organizations face the challenges of consolidating and virtualizing resources, simplifying management, and reducing their costs. Brocade server connectivity solutions help address these challenges, paving the way for improved data center efficiency.

Brocade Blade Server SAN I/O modules deliver field-proven Brocade technology, extending the benefits of storage networking connectivity to blade server environments in the most cost-effective manner.

Brocade offers Fibre Channel switch technology in blade server module form factors for all major blade server vendors. With built-in SAN connectivity, organizations can reduce capital expenses for cabling and connectivity while simplifying the deployment, management, and expansion of their SAN environments. The result is significant savings of time, money, and resources.