Brocade Intros Cloudplex

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Brocade (NASDAQ: BRCD) today introduced a new technology architecture that outlines the company's vision and the technology investments it will make to help its customers evolve their data centers and IT resources and migrate them to the "Virtual Enterprise."

Brocade intends to deliver on this vision through the Brocade CloudPlex™ architecture, an open, extensible framework intended to enable customers to build the next generation of distributed and virtualized data centers in a simple, evolutionary way that preserves their ability to dictate all aspects of the migration. What is unique about the Brocade Cloudplex architecture is that it is both the foundation for integrated compute blocks, but it also embraces a customer's existing multi-vendor infrastructure to unify all of their assets into a single compute and storage domain.

Brocade CloudPlex meets the goal of the Brocade One™ strategy, designed to help companies transition smoothly to a world where information and applications can reside anywhere by delivering solutions that deliver unmatched simplicity, non-stop performance, application optimization and investment protection.

"Virtualization has fundamentally changed the nature of applications by detaching them from their underlying IT infrastructure and introducing a high degree of application mobility across the entire enterprise," said Dave Stevens, chief technology officer at Brocade. "This is the concept of the 'Virtual Enterprise' that we feel unleashes the true potential of cloud computing in all its forms -- private, hybrid and public."

Brocade Communications Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: BRCD)