Brocade Breaks Out
Every year we try to highlight at least one networking player that despite a few channel stumbles, or false starts, or difficult quarters, seems poised for greater embrace by solution providers in the new year.
While there are a couple of networking and data center alternatives that would fit this bill going into 2012, we're going to take a chance on Brocade, which three years after its acquisition of Foundry Networks -- and a little time now since a non-acquisition by Dell -- is finally starting to impress VARs with a mix of technology smarts, focused marketing and channel programs that amply reward loyal partners. If Brocade isn't a vendor in good standing with the networking channel a year from now, we'll be surprised.
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