SAN JOSE, CA–(Marketwired ) – Brocade (NASDAQ: BRCD) today announced the Strategic Collaboration Program to formalize and increase its level of engagement with alliance partners. A mutually beneficial program between Brocade and its named alliances, the STRATEGIC COLLABORATION PROGRAM fosters an open, ecosystem-driven approach to help customers build New IP networks that can serve as a platform for innovation and for developing, delivering and securing new applications.

Old IP networks are characterized by closed systems in which innovation cycles are constrained by one vendor, interoperation is limited and costs are high. In contrast, New IP networks are open and multivendor in nature allowing organizations to accelerate their pace of innovation by tapping into a pool of resources and best-in-class technologies. The ecosystem-centric approach of Brocade’s Strategic Collaboration Program empowers vendors and customers to rapidly co-create innovative applications to stay ahead of the competition.

“An ecosystem built today needs to embrace true openness,” said Ray Mota, chief executive officer and principal analyst, ACG Research. “Brocade is demonstrating the disruptive power of building such an ecosystem, and this program will help assure their customers that they will benefit from the ability to plug-and-play Brocade’s technologies across a wide group of technology partners.”

The Strategic Collaboration Program, which builds on the framework of the Brocade SOLID STATE READY PROGRAM, now includes the following key technology areas and named alliances:

• Storage and Hyperconverged: INFINIDAT, Kaminario, Nimble Storage, Nutanix, Pure Storage, Scale Computing, SimpliVity, Tegile Systems and Tintri
• Mobility: Coriant, Metaswitch, Openet, Saguna Networks and Vasona Networks
• Security: Fortinet, Intel Security, Palo Alto Networks and Raytheon
• Platform: Intel, RedHat, SuperMicro and VMware
• Software/NFV Orchestration: Adva, Amdocs, Ciena, Cloudify, NetCracker, Redcom and RIFT.io

The program resides under the Brocade Partner Network which also includes channel partners, OEMs, global system integrators, alliances and cloud service providers. Alliance partners in the Strategic Collaboration Program will receive benefits including:

• compatibility and integration testing;
• discounted hardware for testing and demo centers;
• development of solution architectures;
• sales and co-marketing opportunities.

“While Brocade has always worked closely with partners, this new program provides a systematic approach to developing, marketing and selling joint solutions. We’re excited that this group of partners has chosen to incorporate Brocade into the development of their next-generation solutions, and this program’s aim is to ensure our joint success,” said Andrew Coward, vice president of strategy, Brocade. “The Strategic Collaboration Program validates Brocade’s open partner ecosystem strategy, helps accelerate cross-selling of solutions and provides incremental revenue opportunity for us and our alliances.”

Source by http://newsroom.brocade.com

SAN JOSE, Calif.—Sept. 22, 2016—Brocade (NASDAQ: BRCD) today announced the company has achieved leader status in the IHS MARKIT WIRELESS LAN INFRASTRUCTURE VENDOR SCORECARD – 2016 for RUCKUS WIRELESS’ significant presence in the market and fast-paced momentum in wireless LAN growth. Brocade acquired Ruckus Wireless in May 2016, and Ruckus now operates as a business unit within Brocade. Prior to the acquisition, Ruckus was already the largest standalone vendor of WLAN products.[1]

According to IHS, “Due to market consolidation, the WLAN vendor landscape has bifurcated into end-to-end networking providers that can address the whole range of enterprise networking requirements and specialists that focus on a particular niche or new ways of solving old problems. The leaders—Brocade, Cisco, and HPE Aruba—are end-to-end networking providers that compete broadly in all segments of the market, leveraging the completeness of their portfolio and their installed bases.”

“Brocade is honored to be recognized as a leader in the IHS Markit WLAN Scorecard,” said Dan Rabinovitsj, chief operating officer, Ruckus Wireless business unit at Brocade. “We continue to offer our customers high-performing wireless technology, and the recognition by IHS further validates the considerable steps we’ve taken this year in the enterprise WLAN infrastructure market—a market that many forecast will continue to experience growth due to the rise in Internet traffic and next-gen connected devices. We look forward to further supporting our customers’ WLAN needs.”

Brocade now offers a broad range of indoor and outdoor WLAN access points with Ruckus BeamFlex technology, which delivers strong performance and one of the industry’s most comprehensive choices of architectures—physical controller appliance, virtual controller appliance, cloud and controller-less—built on the ZoneDirector and SmartZone platforms. With the third-highest market share of all WLAN vendors,[2]Brocade continues to offer strong support to its customers to deploy more agile network architectures.

To read more about Brocade’s leadership position in the IHS Markit Wireless LAN Infrastructure Vendor Scorecard, download aCOMPLIMENTARY COPY of the report.
About Ruckus Wireless
Ruckus Wireless, now part of Brocade, delivers simply better wireless for approximately 70,000 enterprise, service provider, government and small business customers worldwide. The company is focused on technology innovation, partner ecosystems and customer service—yielding the best possible wireless experience for the most challenging indoor and outdoor environments. Its SMART WI-FI platform delivers scalable, high-performance Wi-Fi with simplified control and management for on-premise and cloud-based Wi-Fi deployments, along with new services for secure on-boarding, policy management, location services and analytics that enable new business opportunities.

About Brocade
Brocade^® (NASDAQ: BRCD) networking solutions help the world’s leading organizations turn their networks into platforms for business innovation.  With solutions spanning public and private data centers to the network edge, Brocade is leading the industry in its transition to the New IP network infrastructures required for today’s era of digital business. (WWW.BROCADE.COM)