Brocade provides the industry's leading platforms, solutions and services for intelligently connecting, managing and optimising IT resources in networked storage environments. These offerings help organisations manage their computing resources and data assets more efficiently to reduce costs, simplify management and support strategic business initiatives. To provide best-in-class solutions for a wide range of industries including the financial sector, Brocade partners with industry-leading vendors such as Microsoft. Brocade has pioneered the storage area network (SAN) market, and the world's leading storage and systems providers offer Brocade products as part of their overall storage infrastructure solutions. In addition, Brocade provides innovative file management solutions that optimise efficiency throughout distributed global enterprises. Today, Brocade provides a reliable, secure and interoperable foundation for next-generation data centres – delivering unprecedented levels of scalability, performance and investment protection with the Brocade Data Center Fabric (DCF) architecture. This unique strategy features investment protection for non-disruptive growth and broad industry partnerships for best-in-class solutions. Together with a wide range of unique Brocade Professional Services, these solutions maximise the value of technology investments across the enterprise. Learn more at www.brocade.com.