Apara to distribute Brocade's products

BANGALORE: Brocade Communications Systems Inc., the Storage Area Network

(SAN) player, has signed up Apara Enterprise Solutions as its distributor in

India. According to a release, as a Brocade Fabric Partner, Apara will provide

customers with complete SilkWorm family of fabric switches and a comprehensive

range of supplemental services, from SAN implementation and ongoing support to

training and instructional programs. Brocade SilkWorm fabric switches provide

the intelligent networking foundation for storage area networks.

"Working with Brocade and incorporating their products into our

solutions portfolio is an important step for us. As an IT Infrastructure

solution provider, using the best-of-breed solutions approach, we are pleased to

now offer our customers SAN infrastructure products from the leader in storage

area networking," said Apara Enterprise Solutions’ Storage Management

Business Unit, business manager, B Madhusudan Rao.

"The partnership with Apara will allow us to jointly bring the benefits

of storage area networks to the broad market," said Brocade Communications,

Channel Manager SEA and India, Shyam Gopal. "As SANs become the ubiquitous

infrastructure for business-critical storage applications and services,

continuing to expand the intelligent capabilities of the storage networking

platform is crucial for companies to keep pace with data storage growth

requirements and optimize their IT investments, " he added.