BROCADE Silkworm Wins 1998 Outstanding Product Award
Performance Computing Magazine Selects BROCADE Fibre Channel Switch as Hottest
Enterprise-Level Technology
SAN JOSE, Calif, Nov. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- BROCADE(R) Communications Systems, Inc., the leading supplier of Fibre Channel switch fabrics for storage area networking (SAN), announced today that UNIX Review's Performance Computing magazine has selected BROCADE's SilkWorm(TM) as the only Outstanding Networking Product of 1998. The annual awards are presented by Performance Computing for technical product superiority and vision in enterprise technology. Featured in the December issue of the publication, the BROCADE SilkWorm 16-port fibre channel switch was awarded the top honor for 1998 in the networking category.
Performance Computing technical staff selected the BROCADE SilkWorm Fibre Channel switch as a networking market leader because of the product's technical excellence and its leadership role in bringing storage area networking to the forefront of enterprise computing. The superior speed, performance, I/O bandwidth, and unique cascading capability of the SilkWorm 16-port fibre channel switch were highlighted by Performance Computing as top technical features of the product.
"One of the hottest enterprise-level technologies to emerge this year is Storage Area Networks (SAN). At the core of the flurry of interest in SAN is the fibre channel switch. Brocade's SilkWorm is the acknowledged leader of the fibre channel switch pack and weaves the sheerest of fabrics," said Mark Hall, Editor in Chief, Performance Computing. "We concluded from our analysis of Brocade's 16-port SilkWorm switch that SilkWorm is ahead of the pack in technical merits, including performance and connectivity. SilkWorm is the only fibre channel switch available today that allows for fully meshed cascading of switches, which further enhances performance and availability. We are pleased to recognize BROCADE SilkWorm as the only Outstanding Networking Product for 1998."
"It is an honor to be recognized by Performance Computing's respected team of technical experts," said Peter Tarrant, Vice President of Marketing and Business Development for BROCADE. "Our goal is to continue to deliver superior performance, management, and exceptional scalability in our fibre channel solutions to exceed our customers' requirements. In addition, we are making storage area networks an easy to use, more affordable reality for the enterprise."
About SilkWorm
SilkWorm, designed for Storage Area Network environments, is a scaleable, high-speed 16-port fibre channel switch that interconnects between servers and storage devices. Fibre channel switches are the fastest, most reliable way to connect a wide range of server and storage devices. SilkWorm, complemented with Brocade SAN management software, enables enterprise SAN applications such as LAN-free data backup and restore, high availability of applications, and high disaster tolerance, within a self-learning and self-healing environment.
About BROCADE Communications Systems, Inc.
BROCADE is the leading supplier of fibre channel fabric solutions, which provide the intelligent backbone for Storage Area Networks (SANs). BROCADE manufactures and markets the SilkWorm family of fibre channel switches and SAN management software to optimize data availability in the storage enterprise. Using BROCADE solutions, companies can simplify the implementation of storage area networks, reduce the total cost of ownership of data storage environments, and improve network and application efficiency and performance.
Founded in 1995, BROCADE is a privately held company. The company's headquarters is at 1901 Guadalupe Parkway, San Jose, CA 95131. Visit Brocade at brocade.com, or contact the company at info@brocade.com.
BROCADE is a registered trademark and SilkWorm is a trademark of BROCADE Communications Systems, Inc.
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11/03/98 09:56 EST prnewswire.com
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