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 trend for years.  Unfortunately, like most significant innovation cycles in the technology industry, the airwaves are getting polluted by the misinformed and overzealous. 

Let me attempt to shed some coherent light on some of the hype that I am hearing:

1. “SDN is here today or will be ready to deploy shortly.”   If you think you...

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 insight into how open-standards networking environments can be designed and deployed, helping them drive business transformation through network innovation, and is the first of its kind in EMEA.

Let me tell you more about what this facility means to the region:

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 application delivery switches and potentially