Brocade to exhibit Cloud-Optimized Networking Solutions at Gitex Cloud Confex 2011

Brocade has announced that it will be exhibiting at Gitex Cloud Confex and showcasing its comprehensive portfolio of solutions for cloud-optimized networks. Cloud Confex will take place between 9-11 October 2011 at Sheikh Maktoum Hall, Dubai International Convention and Exhibition Centre.

Speaking about the company’s participation, Hassan Hamadani, Marketing and Business Development Manager for Emerging Markets at Brocade says, “Gitex is an important event in our calendar as it gives us an opportunity to interact with our key audience. Gitex Cloud Confex is slated to be the largest cloud platform in The Middle East, featuring all the leading industry players. This is a great platform for Brocade to talk about all the latest cloud-optimized networking innovations that the company has introduced in the recent past. Brocade’s  comprehensive portfolio of products and open-architecture solutions are designed to help customers migrate smoothly to private, public and hybrid cloud models and virtualized environments”.

“Through our participation at the event, we hope to generate new opportunities from service provider companies wishing to offer cloud services to their customers, as well as enterprise companies looking to simplify and optimize their data centre networks and embrace the cloud”.

At Cloud Confex, Brocade will be promoting Virtual Cluster Switching, (VCS™), a new class of Brocade-developed ethernet fabric technologies designed to address the unique requirements of virtualized data centers. The Brocade VDX family of data center switches is the first to deliver Brocade VCS technology and this will be on display. These switches that are designed to improve network utilization, maximize application availability, increase scalability and dramatically simplify network architectures in highly virtualized data centers. The company will also be demonstrating the ServerIron ADX Series of high-performance application delivery controllers that provide a broad range of application optimization functions to ensure the reliable delivery of critical applications. This product accelerates application performance and improves application availability,  while making the most efficient use of existing infrastructure. These switches also act as a seamless gateway between existing IPv4 networks and new ones built on IPv6.

Brocade networking solutions help the world’s leading organizations transition smoothly to a world where applications and information reside anywhere. From data centers and enterprise campus networks to the service provider core, these solutions are based on the Brocade One strategy for simplifying network infrastructures through innovative technologies.