Brocade who was an early and unambiguous supporter of Open Networking standards, and in fact, publicly asserted our commitment to products which support Software Defined Networking (SDN) as early as June of 2010, has understood the value of this nascent
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Posted on Tue, 08 May 2012 18:51:41 GMT
We know federal agencies have different needs than that of private companies. For instance, their funding profile is mostly oriented to annual funding. Given that there is no "one-size fits all" solution, there are of course different
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Posted on Mon, 19 Mar 2012 19:21:25 GMT
I am very proud to announce that today Brocade expanded its investment in EMEA with the opening of a Regional Briefing Center (RBC). Part of the RBC, Brocade today also opened the Brocade Innovation Center - a facility where customers can obtain
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Posted on Mon, 12 Mar 2012 14:52:56 GMT
There are a couple of big launches this week. We’re doing our part with “The Effortless Network,” a vision for the campus network that offers the scalability to accommodate IT imperatives and emerging applications — such as
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Posted on Thu, 08 Mar 2012 18:05:51 GMT
Yesterday, Brocade introduced a new architectural framework that radically simplifies the implementation of Microsoft Lync unified communications (UC) deployments. The new architecture – which integrates Brocade VDX data center switches, ADX series
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Posted on Wed, 07 Mar 2012 22:27:50 GMT
In this v-log, Anthony Robbins, vice president federal, discusses how Brocade will help agencies with three fundamental challenges: network complexity, future proofing and finding the best price/ performance value.
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Posted on Wed, 07 Mar 2012 18:09:12 GMT
Did you participate in Brocade’s virtual event today? We had some great sessions, including one on security best practices for BYOD and a panel of our customers discussing their goals for building a 10 year LAN. You can view them
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Posted on Tue, 06 Mar 2012 20:42:32 GMT
For the past 20 years I have consistently heard that the networking industry is being commoditized, frankly that assertion doesn’t hold any more water today than it did in the early 1990s. My belief is that the people who spread this
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Posted on Mon, 05 Mar 2012 07:49:32 GMT
From Wingspan Guest Blogger, PG Menon, Director, Solutions Architect for Brocade I recently had the pleasure of serving as a commissioner on the TechAmerica Local and State Cloud Computing commission. The purpose of this particular
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Posted on Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:32:42 GMT
The question of what networking vendor is best really depends on the unique needs of the customer. Sure, you can buy a Ferrari to go grocery shopping and a Prius for drag racing, but obviously their respective purposes and costs don’t align very
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Posted on Mon, 23 Jan 2012 18:51:40 GMT
Anthony Robbins discusses the challenges and opportunities that our federal customers are facing when enabling the cloud.
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Posted on Mon, 12 Dec 2011 21:12:50 GMT
P.G. Menon, Office of the CTO Picking up where we left off on the cloud commission’s policy recommendations to the federal government to encourage migration to cloud computing, the remaining topics in the report were privacy,
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Posted on Fri, 09 Dec 2011 19:29:26 GMT
2011 was a year of significant IT innovation, with major advances in both consumer and business sectors. It was also the year of ‘cloud’, but as we say goodbye to 2011, what does 2012 have in store for us? As I sit here in
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Posted on Fri, 09 Dec 2011 11:17:16 GMT
I was just at Supercomputing 2011 in Seattle where we continued our long-standing and successful tradition of engaging with the international community in high performance computing, networking and storage. We collaborated with research network
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Posted on Thu, 08 Dec 2011 20:44:30 GMT
If you’ve been paying attention to the networking industry, you’ve undoubtedly heard a lot more buzz about Ethernet fabrics. The reason I picked this particular time to write about Ethernet fabrics, a movement that Brocade has been leading
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Posted on Mon, 05 Dec 2011 17:39:00 GMT
We know our customers face a variety of challenges in their campus networks. Namely: over-engineered, over-priced solutions that stress their IT budgets and introduce operational complexity. Some have aging hardware that can’t
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Posted on Wed, 09 Nov 2011 12:30:20 GMT
When we announced Brocade Network Subscription at VMworld Las Vegas, it created a tremendous amount of industry stir. Many people in networking began thinking about this new model and were a little confused about how it would work. This was not a
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Posted on Wed, 12 Oct 2011 23:20:00 GMT
Brocade’s new vice president federal sales, Anthony Robbins, shares a bit of personal experience, explains why he joined Brocade and the challenges he sees specific to the federal market. Please welcome Anthony and leave a comment below.
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Posted on Mon, 10 Oct 2011 23:19:59 GMT
I am reminded by the news coverage this week about that terrible morning of 9/11/01. I had been in NYC both in the WTC and 60 Hudson with my boss on the Friday before the attack. He was a real Texas country boy and had never been to NYC so we
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Posted on Fri, 09 Sep 2011 21:21:59 GMT
Every year I participate in the Civil Air Patrol's National Flight Academy, teaching young teens how to fly. This summer I had an amazing experience with them that really underscored the importance of having a contingency plan. Below I share
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Posted on Wed, 07 Sep 2011 11:30:48 GMT
Our announcements at VMworld 2011 aim at the heart of what’s driving the evolution of the IT ecosystem, specifically with regards to the new cloud architectures. I see the evolution of the IT ecosystem being driven by cloud architectures in
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Posted on Tue, 30 Aug 2011 18:16:10 GMT
For the last two decades, many thoughtful people have predicted the decreasing importance of the relationship between IT staff and their network infrastructure providers. However, there are some straightforward cases that can be made suggesting it is
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Posted on Tue, 23 Aug 2011 20:23:49 GMT
From Wingspan Guest Blogger, PG Menon, Director, Solutions Architect for Brocade As Dave Stevens wrote in an previous blog, earlier this month we, along with several other members of the Cloud2 Commission, delivered our final recommendation on
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Posted on Tue, 26 Jul 2011 21:45:58 GMT
Today, CRN published its annual Top Women in the Channel feature and it is impressive to note that three of our top channel executives - Barbara Spicek, Laurie Potratz and Raelyn Kritzer - are included on the list. These executives have undoubtedly made
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Posted on Mon, 25 Jul 2011 17:50:40 GMT
Federal agencies have a unique set of challenges to overcome and I feel for those who have to make the really tough decisions. How to maintain and run their network should not be one of them. The difference between military and enterprise
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Posted on Mon, 25 Jul 2011 16:00:55 GMT
The topic of cloud computing has dominated much of the networking discussions this year. More often than not, the discussion quickly turns to the mega providers. Amazon, Google and Microsoft lead the list of data center service providers who want
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Posted on Thu, 21 Jul 2011 01:43:06 GMT
Many of you reading this are no doubt preparing for the summer exodus, when work is put aside for a couple of weeks and thoughts turn from spreadsheets to mojitos by the pool. The run up to the well-earned vacation is a fraught one, and packing the
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Posted on Tue, 19 Jul 2011 12:37:29 GMT
If you’ve read the Wall Street Journal, Fortune Magazine, popular trade publications like Network Computing or surf networking sites online, you’ve probably seen our “The Data Center is Here” advertising campaign running with
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Posted on Thu, 16 Jun 2011 21:13:04 GMT
I am working on my most important homework assignment ever – and it’s due in 30 days. As a commissioner on the TechAmerica CLOUD² Commission, I, along with other industry experts and academia, have been working on a document to
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Posted on Tue, 14 Jun 2011 19:09:19 GMT
Data, data everywhere and we all want it now! Wherever you are, I guarantee you won’t be too far away from someone who has an Internet-enabled device. Globally, consumers purchased more than 100 million smartphones and millions more in
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Posted on Wed, 08 Jun 2011 13:19:22 GMT
From Wingspan Guest Blogger, Phil O'Reilly, Vice President, Integrated Marketing for Brocade Here we are to celebrate IPv6 day. Isn’t it remarkable that we’ve evolved so much from an IT perspective that a protocol has its own day?
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Posted on Wed, 08 Jun 2011 00:03:24 GMT
While at Interop Las Vegas 2011 I had the opportunity to speak on two featured panels at the Carrier Cloud Forum, a Light Reading and Heavy Reading hosted event. Light Reading chief editor, Carol Wilson, moderated my second panel which focused on two
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Posted on Mon, 16 May 2011 23:43:35 GMT
I am pleased to report that love still blossoms eternal for the SAN market. I just returned from Las Vegas where I made the annual pilgrimage to EMC World 2011 along with 8,000 or so customers to participate in EMC's launch of their latest storage
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Posted on Fri, 13 May 2011 00:57:28 GMT
Virtualization has completely altered the nature of applications by detaching them from their underlying IT infrastructure and introducing a high degree of application mobility across the entire enterprise. We’re about to hit an evolutionary period
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Posted on Thu, 05 May 2011 21:51:40 GMT
12 months ago at Tech Day in New York City we introduced for the first time the concept of an “Ethernet Fabric” to help data center managers meet the demand for serve r virtualization as the stepping stone to a cloud services model for
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Posted on Tue, 03 May 2011 21:20:07 GMT
Byline: Dave Stevens, CTO and Ken Cheng, Vice President of Service Provider Products, Brocade At Brocade Tech Day last year in New York, we described virtual machines, or VMs, as the “new atomic unit of work” in IT for both service
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Posted on Tue, 03 May 2011 15:59:30 GMT
Women in Business Conference Inspires Participants to “Be the Change” On Saturday, April 9, as part of Brocade’s Women in Networking (WIN) initiative, Brocade hosted Santa Clara University’s 9th Annual Women in Business
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Posted on Thu, 28 Apr 2011 01:03:54 GMT
Brocade’s Ethernet Fabric is Ideal for Virtualized Data Centers In November of last year Brocade rolled out its VDX products and started the biggest transformation in our industry since layer 2 switches emerged 15 years ago. Fabric
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Posted on Fri, 01 Apr 2011 22:32:03 GMT
In a previous post, I wrote about Brocade’s planned introduction of 100 GbE ports, 10 times the speeds we have today. It’s clear how this would benefit consumers who can download high-definition movies more easily or businesses that require
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Posted on Thu, 24 Mar 2011 18:08:13 GMT
It’s probably not a surprise for many people when I say new Internet-ready devices, like smartphones, iPads and laptops, are being added to networks at rates we’ve never seen before. Since these newly added devices require unique Internet
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Posted on Tue, 22 Mar 2011 18:35:11 GMT
It’s fun to be in sales when you have the best products in town to create flat Layer 2 networks to virtualize data centers and create the foundation for private cloud networks, aka, the Brocade VDX. Last week I was reminded of this fact
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Posted on Tue, 08 Mar 2011 00:16:46 GMT
The channel is by far the predominant go to market model for Ethernet technology manufacturers. Every vendor is looking for the most competent partners to provide leverage to their sales model and Brocade is no different in this respect. Customers see so
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Posted on Thu, 03 Mar 2011 23:52:02 GMT
Steve Jobs introduced the iPad 2 yesterday in San Francisco, showing off its slimmer design, faster processors, cameras on both sides for video conferencing and what looks to be a really interesting Smart Cover, that I hope works with my existing iPad
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Posted on Thu, 03 Mar 2011 22:41:35 GMT
Last week was a good week. Not only did Brocade announce better than expected earnings for Q1 but our local San Jose Sharks registered back-to-back home wins in their last two NHL games against the Washington Capitals and the Colorado Avalanche - and I
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Posted on Thu, 24 Feb 2011 00:31:10 GMT
As part of Brocade’s Women in Networking (WIN) initiative, I am proud to highlight two events this past week aimed at inspiring and influencing young ladies in the community to continue pursuing education, especially in the fields of math, science
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Posted on Wed, 23 Feb 2011 20:33:06 GMT
From Wingspan Guest Blogger, Jean Furter, Vice President and Treasurer at Brocade: It is exciting times here at Brocade - today it was announced we won the Association for Financial Professionals’ (AFP) 2010 Pinnacle Grand Prize,
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Posted on Thu, 10 Feb 2011 23:22:26 GMT
This week a few seemingly unconnected events conspired together that made me take stock of my life and realize how precious and fleeting it really is. In my younger days, 10 years seemed like an eternity, but as many of you have already
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Posted on Thu, 10 Feb 2011 19:07:17 GMT
Here is the full-length video that I originally delivered at the Gartner Data Center Conference where I discuss major transformations impacting networking today. As I see it, the data center is undergoing a major evolution as information
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Posted on Thu, 10 Feb 2011 18:24:42 GMT
This is a blog very close to my heart – close in terms of how proud the content makes me feel and close as it’s about a customer that is a matter of miles away from my office in Geneva. My pride comes from being able to tell you about a
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Posted on Tue, 08 Feb 2011 16:45:48 GMT
Brocade is ready to hit the market in 2011 with its first 100 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) productsto meet the growing demands for moving data on corporate networks and the Internet. In the next few posts, I’d like to explain to you how Brocade sees 100
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Posted on Mon, 07 Feb 2011 21:21:40 GMT
This last week I had the pleasure of hosting our annual President’s Club in Maui. “PClub,” as we refer to it, is an incentive trip reserved for the top 10% of Brocade’s sales reps and systems engineers from around the world who
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Posted on Mon, 07 Feb 2011 20:47:23 GMT
One of the few benefits of extensive business travel is the opportunity to catch up on some reading. Novels require too much of a time commitment, but I do try to keep myself informed on what’s going on in the world. My preferred source of
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Posted on Fri, 17 Dec 2010 21:10:40 GMT
Yesterday we introduced of one of the most important developments in data center networking in the last decade -- the Brocade VDX product family, featuring Brocade's breakthrough Virtual Cluster Switching technology that provides the industry's first
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Posted on Wed, 17 Nov 2010 01:00:17 GMT
Last week, Brocade held its annual APac Partner Summit on the island of Bali, Indonesia. The event brought together Brocade channel partners from throughout Asia, New Zealand and Australia for several exciting days of vision sharing, learning and
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Posted on Fri, 12 Nov 2010 00:18:33 GMT
I've been outspoken and somewhat controversial in making some strong statements about cloud adoption, specifically highlighting some of the fundamental impediments that exist. The problem with cloud adoption, in the most generic sense, is that some of
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Posted on Wed, 03 Nov 2010 19:58:13 GMT
Cost control has and continues to be one of the driving factors for making a profitable service provider business. The fees service providers can charge their end customer remain relatively flat while the demand for more bandwidth has continued to soar.
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Posted on Fri, 22 Oct 2010 21:02:11 GMT
Curtis Johnson - Director of Information Technology, St. Mary's Academy The school year is now fully under way at St. Mary’s Academy. The leaves are falling, there is definitely a nip in the Colorado air, and users are
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Posted on Wed, 20 Oct 2010 22:05:23 GMT
Brocade’s latest addition to its list of certification trainings is the CNE 250 Fast-track course – a virtual education class to prepare Cisco-certified professionals for the Brocade Certified Network Engineer (BCNE) Exam. This new offering
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Posted on Mon, 04 Oct 2010 20:10:23 GMT
Last week, Brocade received its first Rising Star Award from the Global Technology Distribution Council (GTDC), a worldwide industry association dedicated to defining and promoting the role of wholesale distribution. The award recognizes those companies
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Posted on Wed, 29 Sep 2010 21:59:36 GMT
September marks the official grand opening of Brocade’s new Bay Area campus and with it an exciting new chapter in the company’s history. After years of hard, focused work, the new campus recently earned Brocade a place among the most
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Posted on Wed, 29 Sep 2010 17:03:33 GMT
Whoever thinks technical conferences are no longer well attended missed the Brocade Conference at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas last week. Over 750 customers and partners attended the four-day event and the fire marshal prevented it from being even larger as
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Posted on Mon, 27 Sep 2010 22:24:20 GMT
Followers of the networking industry, which includes the hundreds of financial analysts we hosted on our campus yesterday, seem to have one particular hot-spot on their radar: the data center. It’s understandable, because most customers are
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Posted on Fri, 17 Sep 2010 18:27:17 GMT
We hosted hundreds of our investors and Wall Street analysts for our annual Analyst Day on September 15. Our goal is for these audiences to leave Analyst Day with a clear understanding of our business strategies and confidence in us as an outstanding
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Posted on Fri, 17 Sep 2010 17:38:49 GMT
My name is Regan McGrath and I am the Vice President of Sales for the Americas for Brocade. I look forward to sharing some ideas around my experiences, what customers and partners are talking to me about, and how this incredibly complex time in IT
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Posted on Tue, 14 Sep 2010 19:47:01 GMT
In addition to industry trends, I also try to keep a pulse on channel partners, especially when it comes to what their needs and requirements are from a good vendor. We are constantly re-tuning and improving our partner program to be the best partner out
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Posted on Mon, 13 Sep 2010 21:32:29 GMT
Rusty Bruns - CIO - Charleston Southern University Charleston Southern University began replacing its aging Cisco network with Brocade in 2006. Currently, Brocade FastIron® SuperX Series router is at the core of CSU’s network and
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Posted on Thu, 09 Sep 2010 03:23:31 GMT
One of the questions facing a "challenger brand" in a market dominated by one very strong player is where to focus – and probably more importantly where not to focus. The networking industry landscape is strewn with the rotting P&L’s of
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Posted on Thu, 09 Sep 2010 02:56:36 GMT
Joel Mulkey - CIO - Freewire Broadband Ever try guaranteeing reliable broadband services using radio waves? It’s not easy but that’s how we beat out the LECs here in Portland, Oregon. We create a secure, robust, high-speed
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Posted on Thu, 09 Sep 2010 01:35:31 GMT
I’d like to share some lessons learned during the construction of our new 562,000 sf campus and data center in San Jose, California. This video includes photos, details, and comments from our executive team. It also explains how the sustainability,
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Posted on Sat, 21 Aug 2010 00:38:02 GMT
For the past several months, I’ve used this forum to highlight the various technology components that make up Brocade’s new campus infrastructure: a state-of-the-art data center, a world-class converged IPv6-ready network that relies
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Posted on Tue, 03 Aug 2010 20:14:30 GMT
Brocade’s recent appointment of Redington as its distributor for the SAARC region encompassing India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Maldives and Bhutan is significant because the data center market is growing at a robust pace in this region. Market
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Posted on Fri, 23 Jul 2010 15:02:27 GMT
I am almost two weeks into my life at Brocade and I am pleased to say that I have hit the ground running and am proud to be spearheading the company’s EMEA operations, and positing my first blog. My first couple of days at Brocade were spent in
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Posted on Tue, 13 Jul 2010 08:44:22 GMT
In this video, I walk viewers through the critical design elements that make our new data center in the new campus a world-class facility in the way of space usage, energy efficiency and sustainability practices that execute on our company’s
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Posted on Mon, 12 Jul 2010 22:48:12 GMT
While sitting at the airport, I looked around and noticed nearly every person was thumbing away on their smartphones or browsing online multimedia via their laptops. We are literally connected every minute of the day and the number of devices has only
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Posted on Thu, 01 Jul 2010 21:46:35 GMT
Here is the video of me at Brocade Technology Day unveiling details of Brocade One, the new unifying networking vision and strategy. For more information, visit: www.brocade.com/brocadeone.
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Posted on Wed, 23 Jun 2010 17:34:12 GMT
In my last post, I talked about how we all – in our personal, and for those of us in technology, our professional lives – are trying to simplify and do more with less. This all sounds good in a data center unless it increases risk and/or
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Posted on Wed, 23 Jun 2010 16:39:51 GMT
Here is the video of me at Brocade Technology Day discussing new innovations and technologies necessary for the migration to a fully virtualized data center. For more information, visit: www.brocade.com/brocadeone.
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Posted on Tue, 22 Jun 2010 21:02:01 GMT
Ever since we first started designing it, there’s been a great deal of focus on maximizing efficiency at the new Brocade San Jose campus. From the outset, we’ve put considerable thought and effort into how to contain space, power, cooling,
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Posted on Tue, 22 Jun 2010 19:28:09 GMT
In today’s environment of natural disasters, power outages, virus outbreaks and other IT interruptions that can bring business to a halt, it’s crucial for companies to have reliable IT solutions that give them always-on access to critical
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Posted on Mon, 07 Jun 2010 17:55:36 GMT
There’s an old saying: People may doubt what you say, but they’ll believe what you do. I was reminded of that the other day during a walk-through at our new San Jose campus. We said we would design and deliver a next-generation network
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Posted on Tue, 25 May 2010 22:23:56 GMT
Brad Broskey, Senior Network Operations Engineer at MaximumASP Whether the flood of digital data and network traffic makes it feel as though it’s El Nino or the end of an ice age, everyone needs their network performing at the highest
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Posted on Tue, 25 May 2010 16:52:17 GMT
Tell me I am not alone on this… As my kids grow, my job demands increase, my body ages and I have to get a lot more accomplished in my personal life in the same fixed 7-day week…very real images enter my brain about all the data center
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Posted on Tue, 25 May 2010 16:25:17 GMT
OK, so typical office banter after returning from travel: “How was the show?” “Oh, you know, same as usual, glad I went…” Well not this year! At least not for me nor for those who met with Brocade during EMC
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Posted on Mon, 24 May 2010 19:29:46 GMT
On May 3, the first group of employees moved into the new Brocade San Jose campus and we expect full occupancy by July 23. From a technical and operational standpoint, this is a remarkable achievement made possible by hundreds of thousands of hours of
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Posted on Fri, 14 May 2010 17:15:23 GMT
Within the last year or so we have announced agreements with IBM, Dell and this week with EMC to sell our data center IP, converged networking and application delivery products, adding a significant amount of breadth to our existing storage networking
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Posted on Thu, 13 May 2010 20:07:24 GMT
In my previous blogs I made the case for why the venerable Spanning Tree Protocol was ill-suited for deploying virtualized data center network designs and for eliminating hierarchical, multi-tier networks in favor of large Layer 2 networks. The common
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Posted on Thu, 29 Apr 2010 17:09:05 GMT
I love analogies because, for me at least they make it a lot easier to understand how something works. So here is my proposition: for many years, businesses both large and small have invested in networks that have become the circulatory systems for their
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Posted on Wed, 28 Apr 2010 18:30:36 GMT
We all want more... of everything. Customers always want more and rightly so – it’s what keeps vendors on their toes and drives them to innovate and deliver excellent service. However, sometimes these demands place extreme pressure on
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Posted on Fri, 23 Apr 2010 19:53:30 GMT
In previous entries I described how the network infrastructure at the new Brocade campus in San Jose will support the company’s business needs today and in the future. Up to this point I focused mainly on hardware. Now, I want to talk about one of
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Posted on Tue, 20 Apr 2010 22:29:01 GMT
In March, a nor'easter came roaring up the U.S. East Coast knocking down trees, taking out power and forcing many residents in NY, NJ and CT to boil their drinking water. When the power went out in my home around six pm, the backup power unit kicked in
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Posted on Mon, 12 Apr 2010 19:59:32 GMT
Dealing with a critical situation, or “crit sit” is a nightmare for customers and IT vendors alike. A failed piece of equipment or software application, whether for technical or human reasons, generates a considerable amount of disruption,
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Posted on Fri, 09 Apr 2010 16:42:18 GMT
As a matter of company policy, we will not comment directly on Mr. Reyes’ case. Brocade has already resolved these matters on behalf of the company and we remain focused on running our business.
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Posted on Fri, 26 Mar 2010 23:28:22 GMT
Blog post by: Ian.Whiting, SVP of Worldwide Sales & Marketing Where am I? Clue – travelling at 160KM/hr with Bernhard, one of our top sales reps, who does a great job shuttling me between meetings at warp speed. Am I late for my appointment
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Posted on Wed, 24 Mar 2010 00:06:19 GMT
In my February blog I described how Brocade IP products will form the scalable network backbone at the new Brocade San Jose campus. Similarly, Brocade IT is using the build-out to upgrade our Storage Area Network (SAN), using the latest Brocade products
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Posted on Tue, 23 Mar 2010 21:50:59 GMT
Earlier this month, I had the pleasure of attending and presenting at the 15th annual XChange Solution Provider conference in Los Angeles, an event hosted by Everything Channel. This conference hosts over 225 high-level channel executives and is aimed at
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Posted on Mon, 22 Mar 2010 18:29:48 GMT
I was recently talking to a large retailer about how much IT infrastructure is wasted because they have to build to handle peak loads around the holidays. The percentages are staggering. Some retailers estimate that more than 50 percent of their
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Posted on Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:07:15 GMT
Having studied in the U.K., I was taught to say “Capital” and “Small” letters to refer to what my U.S. colleagues often call “Upper Case” and “Lower Case” letters. Apparently this nomenclature is left over
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Posted on Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:57:48 GMT
I wanted to share with you a great example of how we are using new social media tools to help connect joint partner customer communities around hot IT topics. This was the first time Brocade and NetApp had tried such an endeavor and we were both pleased
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Posted on Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:37:10 GMT
The phenomenal growth of the healthcare industry over the last few years in Asia has received plenty of attention in local and global markets. To meet the surging demand for high-quality healthcare, coupled with an increasing need to conform to global
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Posted on Mon, 08 Mar 2010 01:48:54 GMT
Customer Guest Blog - St. Mary's Academy - Director of Information Technology - Curtis Johnson In 146 years, St. Mary’s Academy has seen many things. As one of oldest K12 institutions in Colorado, it was the first to grant a diploma, and
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Posted on Wed, 03 Mar 2010 20:53:57 GMT
CMO John McHugh discusses how Brocade is driving innovation across both technology and business levels for the migration to cloud.
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