Corporate Users Rank Brocade as Top Value SAN Switch Vendor
Thursday October 14, 9:00 am ET
TheInfoPro Study of Enterprise Storage Customers Cites Brocade Leadership in Product Quality, Technical Support, Delivery As Promised, and Reputation
SAN JOSE, Calif., Oct. 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. (Brocade®) (Nasdaq: BRCD - News), the world's leading provider of infrastructure solutions for Storage Area Networks (SANs), today announced that TheInfoPro, an independent study of enterprise storage customers, has ranked the company as the top SAN switch vendor in value and the overall highest ranked SAN switch vendor in a multifaceted "Fulfillment Index," which combines various important product, support and delivery aspects of SAN infrastructure. The study, conducted during the third quarter of 2004, also found that Brocade was the company most often described by respondents as a strategic supplier of SAN Switch and Director platforms.
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"This was Wave 4 of a multi-year study designed to secure working intelligence of the investment considerations and in-field thinking of corporate storage professionals," said Ken Male, CEO and founder of TheInfoPro. "For this wave, we conducted 152 hour-long interviews at Fortune 1000 organizations, capturing vendor ratings, budgets and spending data, along with technology adoption or avoidance related to more than 40 different types of storage functionality."
The study, which collects, analyses and compares opinions and intentions of storage professionals at six-month intervals, gives Brocade the highest rating among switch vendors in value and ease of doing business. The company also was ranked as excellent in product quality, technical support, delivery as promised, and overall reputation. In the Fulfillment Index, which is a composite of value for the money, product quality, delivery as promised, and technical support, Brocade received the top rating among switch vendors.
"Once again achieving top ranking among SAN switch vendors in TheInfoPro Fulfillment Index is a great validation of Brocade's commitment to overall customer satisfaction," said Tom Buiocchi, Brocade Vice President of Marketing. "This semi-annual study is one of the most comprehensive independent report cards for the storage industry, and the findings overall provide us with direct and honest customer feedback."
TheInfoPro (www.theinfopro.net) is an independent research network and leading supplier of market intelligence for the Information Technology (IT) industry. Its methodology for research incorporates in-depth one-to-one interviews with typical customer groups at six-month intervals |
