Today, leading Global 500 companies rely on Brocade SANs to provide an open and secure environment for their mission-critical storage applications, such as data backup, storage and server consolidation, and business continuance. With a presence in 14 countries and regional sales centers located around the world, Brocade is a diverse and global company with a clear vision for continued market leadership.

Brocade has developed an Intelligent Fabric Services Architecture that incorporates intelligence directly into the networking storage platform—creating a highly available, scalable, and secure environment for storage applications. Using the Brocade SilkWorm family of fabric switches and software, organizations can leverage a wide range of capabilities to:

• Connect servers with storage devices and scale them independently
• Consolidate and share servers and storage resources
• Share valuable backup resources across the enterprise
• Centralize data management to handle more data without increasing personnel resources

Today's IT managers are facing the twin challenges of ever-growing storage and limited resources. That's why we developed a new direction—Hitachi TrueNorth—a vision for the future of information management that leverages the synergies of an open, management framework and powerful, intelligent storage systems. Within this vision, we continue our collaborative approach by building our strategic alliances to deliver complete solutions. With Hitachi TrueNorth, you can simplify, protect and optimize your information infrastructures, reduce TCO and accelerate ROI.