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Goal to Include Joint Innovation on Management, Virtualization Infrastructure and Optimization for Next-Generation Data Centers

Brocade^® (Nasdaq: BRCD) and Dell today announced a partnership to offer Dell customers end-to-end computing, networking and storage solutions through the Dell global sales organization. The two companies also intend to collaborate on future development around the management and virtualization of next-generation, efficient data centers, which will help Brocade and Dell customers better utilize IT and gain significant savings in people, time and money.

Specifically, the two companies intend to:

• Develop a dynamic infrastructure and optimization solution enabled by virtualization to allow customers to deploy and manage an efficient data center. Increasingly, customers need applications deployed rapidly to meet their performance requirements, with secure and reliable access to their mission-critical data.
• Deliver integrated toolsets to manage application delivery and deployment as business services on highly reliable compute, network and storage infrastructure. The Brocade and Dell solution will help provide capital and operational expense savings by deploying server and storage virtualization more broadly across the data center.

An interesting read, anything we can do to reduce costs and improve the possibilities or functionality of the infrastructure has to be a good thing, particularly in the next generation data center? Could we see movements to virtualization of the data center? Where the data center follows the sun, not just the application? Have London offline as the overnight workload moves to New York combined with the existing workloads thanks to flexibility of the infrastructure?

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