SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Brocade Analyst and Technology Day -- Brocade (NASDAQ: BRCD), the industry leader in fabric networking, today announced a revolutionary switching platform, the Brocade® VDX® 8770 Switch, along with VCS® Fabric technology enhancements that take data center network simplicity, efficiency and resiliency to a new scale. The Brocade VDX 8770 is designed for enterprises and service providers striving to both simplify and scale-out their data center infrastructure in order to accelerate new service introduction and drive innovation, while also lowering costs.

With more than 700 customers who have already installed Brocade VDX switches, Brocade is building on the success of its VCS fabric-enabled switch portfolio with the addition of the modular Brocade VDX 8770 Switch. The newest family member is built to support the largest data centers, delivering unprecedented simplicity and automation along with massive scalability and performance -- all while offering superior investment protection.

The Brocade VDX 8770 and VCS Fabric technology deliver a radically simplified data center network. Designed specifically for highly virtualized environments, Ethernet fabrics built on VCS Fabric technology accelerate application deployment and enable faster virtual machine (VM) migrations through zero-touch VM discovery, VM mobility and VM port configuration migration. Using VCS fabrics, customers can manage dozens of switches as a single logical device, dramatically reducing operational costs. They can also save installation time as new switches self-provision when they are connected to the fabric.

Brocade Communications Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: BRCD)