Brocade Communications Systems

Brocade is a leading provider of data center networking solutions that help organizations connect, share, and manage their information in the most efficient manner. Organizations that use Brocade products and services are better able to optimize their IT infrastructures and ensure compliant data management. For more information, visit the Brocade Web site at www.brocade.com or contact the company at info@brocade.com.

see also:- Brocade - editor mentions on STORAGEsearch.com

• editor's notes:- Brocade's own company profile doesn't tell you what they do. They're in the SAN switch business. And have been for over a decade as this 1998 archived copy their home page demonstrates.
  
  Since those early days ethernet based storage networks and IP SANs have become a much bigger market than fibre channel SANs - but Brocade is involved in both.
  
  Fibre channel switches & hubs, which are now taken for granted, were once hot topics as many more companies once fought to control this market. In the summer of 2000 SAN switches were the #1 most popular subject viewed by our readers. Many of those early SAN switch pioneers were eventually acquired by their competitors.
  
  Today in 2008 - this topic doesn't get into the top 20 subjects - reported monthly on our market research page. It's not that the SAN switch market hasn't grown - just that many other markets have grown much bigger and faster.

profile from featured press release March 4, 2008..........................................................

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