Brocade Appoints Progility Technologies as Elite Partner in India to Deliver Networking Solutions for the New IP

Brocade (NASDAQ: BRCD) today announced the appointment of Progility Technologies Pvt Ltd (formerly known as Unify Enterprise Communications Pvt Ltd), a leading systems integrator and project management services organization that provides unified communications infrastructure, applications and services to both the private and public sectors in India, as Elite Direct Value Added Partner. With over 265 employees in India, Progility will work closely with Brocade to deliver the entire stack of IP and Software Networking Data Center solutions for the New IP to enterprise customers across the banking, financial services, education, and government sectors.

As a Brocade Elite Partner, Progility will offer its deep market knowledge and extensive deployment experience to help enterprise customers architect, design, implement, and maintain Brocade^® networking solutions. More importantly, it will work closely with Brocade to help customers in India streamline the transition to Software-Defined Networking (SDN), and build open, software-driven, and innovation-led networks for the New IP that are designed for the requirements of cloud, social, mobile, and Big Data analytics.

“CIOs today face a number of challenges in hosting modern data centers, including escalating costs and the lack of automation and resources. To address this, Brocade and Progility have partnered to provide best-in-class solutions designed to support the ever-increasing demands for next-generation data center infrastructures,” said Srikanth Natarajan, head of Channels and Alliances, India and SAARC, Brocade. “Through Progility, we are helping enterprises and service providers in India to leverage the New IP to make networking more dynamic and automated through software and virtualization.”

“Brocade’s vision on open networking and its technology roadmap of open, software-driven networking solutions based on the New IP was key in securing our partnership, as we believe this will pave the way for customers to innovate and address their data center challenges,” said Anil Jain – CEO, Progility Technologies. “We are excited about this partnership and the opportunity to transition to the New IP and modernize networks for the benefit of our customers.”

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