New Brocade Partner Reward Program

Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. has achieved a milestone in its data center strategy to develop the highest-performance, most cost- effective, and most reliable end-to-end networking solutions available on the market today. Adding to its rich portfolio of networking solutions, Brocade has now completed testing and interoperability qualification of its server connectivity solutions, or host bus adapters (HBAs), by all leading storage manufacturers, including HP, EMC, IBM, Hitachi Data Systems, LSI Corporation and Xiotech.

Brocade HBAs deliver unique breakthrough performance and end-to-end networking capabilities for customers implementing server virtualization as part of their data center strategy. Augmenting the industry-leading performance of the Brocade DCX Backbone family, Brocade HBAs utilize an industry-first integration of important adapter functions, such as virtual channels, into high-performance hardware. Brocade end-to-end storage networking solutions offer unmatched server-to-storage connectivity as well as Brocade Adaptive Networking services such as true Quality of Service (QoS) from server virtual machines to storage array ports and traffic management.

To reward its channel reseller and distribution partners, Brocade has also announced the availability of attractive incentives on its 4 and 8Gbps Fibre Channel HBA portfolio of products. Brocade designed this innovative incentive program to help channel resellers and distributors deliver fully interoperable, proven, end-to-end server connectivity solutions to help meet their customer’s need to make their data centers more efficient, reliable, and adaptable.

The limited-time rebate amounts are available to Brocade Alliance Partner Network channel resellers and distributors, and vary by HBA model type.

“Brocade is pleased to be able to reward our channel partners and distributors who want to help their customers realize the benefits of data center virtualization with end-to-end industry-leading storage networking solutions,” said Barbara Spicek, vice president of worldwide channels at Brocade. “This program helps allow our partners to educate customers on how to consolidate more servers and virtualize server-to-storage environments while simplifying overall management of their storage network and lowering their total cost of ownership.”