Brocade Communications: Challenger
Brocade Communications increased its data center networking revenue in 2015 by nearly 20 percent, with 4,000 customers running its flagship product, the VCS switching fabric. San Jose, Calif.-based Brocade is continuing to make investments and product innovation in the areas of automation, workflow orchestration and SDN. This year, Brocade acquired Ruckus Wireless to boost its networking portfolio.
"They're certainly a vendor that understands data center architectures very well," said Fabbi. "Brocade's pretty well positioned and is taking a little bit of market share."
Brocade is ranked No. 5 in execution and in the middle of the pack in regard to vision.
