Brocade is transforming networks to support the new IP by delivering cloud-optimised architectures that offer new levels of scale, agility, and operational efficiency.

These highly automated, software-driven, and programmable data center fabric solutions provide flexible network virtualization options and scale for data center environments ranging from tens to thousands of servers.

Brocade solutions make it easy for organizations to architect, automate, and integrate their infrastructure with current and future data center technologies as they transition to a cloud model.

As organizations continue to transform their business and adapt to new digital workloads, IT operations teams struggle to keep pace with the volume and variety of digital data going across their networks.

Visibility is critical, and in order to meet customer and end-user service and application expectations and remain competitive, organizations need to provide service and application assurance, improve operational efficiencies, and enable new monetisation opportunities. They need comprehensive visibility into the operational state of the network and into the traffic that is transiting the network without compromising day-to-day operations and performance.

To unleash new levels of business innovation and competitive advantage, customers are embracing digital transformation. Success depends on building an agile business. In the digital era, IT agility is key to business agility. However, IT infrastructure is only as agile as its least agile component.

The lack of network automation and the inability of the network to align with IT operations and tool chains today is the single biggest inhibitor to an organisation’s ability to capitalise on digitalisation. In fact, 75 percent of CIOs say the network is an issue in achieving their organization’s goals.

Read this eBook to understand how you can accelerate your journey with Brocade and VMware

You’ve virtualized your compute and storage. So what’s next? To complete the journey to a software-defined data center you must modernize your network. This eBook explains how integrated solutions from Brocade and VMware will deliver:

• Seamless integration of the physical and virtual infrastructure
• Full network visibility across all environments
• Competitive advantage thanks to improved performance and agility

IT and application architectures have changed significantly in the past decade as cloud, big data, and mobile computing have disrupted business processes and applications. Cloud computing offers a particularly attractive value proposition: It gives organizations of all sizes the ability to leverage IT resources as needed.

When data center investment is a concern or IT is an enabler but not a core business, cloud-based services can allow organizations to scale effectively via hosted applications, or infrastructure-as-a-service. Organizations also are building their own next-generation data center infrastructure in order to benefit from the cost-efficiencies, flexibility, and scale that a cloud provides.