BANGALORE: Network storage platform provider, Brocade has selected Wipro as an offshore development partner. Under the agreement, Wipro would offer development, maintenance and testing of Brocade's products in the Fibre Channel switch space including SAN management solutions.

Kumar Malavalli, Co-Founder and Strategic Advisor to Brocade Communications Systems, Inc., said, "this association will enable Wipro to participate in Brocade product development and services, and establish Wipro in the forefront of storage technology solutions. This is a beginning of a successful partnership and would be an extension of the Brocade engineering team. We are expecting growth in the SAN market and together Brocade and Wipro will be able to offer comprehensive storage solutions to our customers"

Wipro's matured software engineering processes and domain competence will help Brocade achieve time to market advantage and meet its quality objectives. "Storage solutions will be the key technology enabler for the information age. However, the challenge would lie in simplifying storage management, while driving down the total cost of provisioning, monitoring devices and the large number of applications that they support. We are proud to be chosen as the Offshore Engineering and Design services partner by Brocade Communications, the worldwide leader in this area'' said Ramesh Emani, President Embedded & Product Engineering Solutions, Wipro.

As second largest software exporter of India, Wipro Technologies has a very big workforce in the country and offers offshore development centers to a number of leading technology companies.