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NetSource and Brocade

A World-Class Data Center Networking Solutions Leader

Brocade is an industry leader in data center networking solutions and services that enable organizations to manage their most vital information assets. Global 500 companies rely on Brocade technology to keep their businesses running around the clock.

Brocade has pioneered the technologies that enable highly reliable and secure data center connectivity. Most of the world’s data flows through Brocade equipment and data center networks built on Brocade technology.

With its comprehensive family of industry-leading solutions, including Storage Area Networks (SANs) and File Area Networks (FANs), Brocade addresses critical information management challenges such as data backup, storage and server consolidation, and business continuance.

With regional sales and innovation centers located around the world, Brocade is a diverse and global company with a clear vision for continued industry leadership. Brocade has captured and maintained a greater than 80 percent market share in SANs. Moreover, new product categories continue to expand the total available market in which Brocade participates.

DATA CENTER FABRIC NETWORKING ARCHITECTURE

The Brocade Data Center Fabric (DCF) architecture is designed to help today’s organizations make their data centers more efficient, reliable, and adaptable to change. The Brocade DCF helps maximize performance and optimize key technologies (such as server virtualization) while minimizing disruptive change. In particular, it:

Protects existing technology investments
Utilizes a policy-driven architecture to help ensure that important data center services (such as data security, encryption, backup, and replication) are automatically available based on defined business policies
Adapts and responds to changing requirements for managing applications and data
Utilizes the distributed intelligence of the data center
Enables a best-in-class solution in conjunction with products from Brocade OEM Partners

INDUSTRY-LEADING SAN SOLUTIONS

Brocade incorporate intelligence directly into its storage networking solutions - creating a highly available, scalable, and secure environment for storage applications. Using the Brocade SAN family of fabric switches and software, organizations can:

Connect servers with storage devices and scale them independently
Consolidate and share servers and storage resources
Share valuable backup resources across the enterprise
Centralize data management to handle more data without increasing personnel resources

FAN SOLUTIONS FOR FILE DATA MANAGEMENT

With its File Area Network (FAN) solutions for file management, Brocade provides new tools to address a variety of cost, complexity, and compliance issues across the enterprise. These solutions are designed to simplify management in a wide range of data center and remote office environments, and help provide a fast ROI. Key benefits of Brocade FAN solutions include:

Higher performance for improved data access
Automation and policy-based operations for increased productivity and consistency
Centralized management for simplified administration and greater resource utilization
Increased control over both local and remote data assets
Easier compliance with corporate guidelines and industry regulations

As a long-standing and trusted partner, NetSource works closely with a broad network of resellers, OEMs and other suppliers to meet customers' evolving data protection needs.

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