Juma and Brocade Form Business Partner Relationship

Juma Technology Corp., an IP convergence firm specializing in managed services, has joined the Brocade Alliance Partner Network channel program. As a Brocade Elite channel partner, Juma is authorized to market, sell, and support Brocade products and professional services.

Juma has been working with the Brocade IP Networking team for over a year in joint product testing, education, training, sales and solution interoperability. Juma has been recognized by Brocade for its technical depth during the engagement and enters the program at the highest partnership level.

Juma President and Chief Technology Officer, Joseph T. Fuccillo, said: "Brocade’s industry leading features, commitment to reliability and strong design track record delivers the performance that customers need when deploying a converged network."

"In today’s world of converged systems, it is imperative for businesses to maintain a solid network infrastructure that has the ability to support voice, video and data applications," said Fuccillo. "With an ever-changing landscape of requirements, components such as network performance, flexibility, and scalability are all critical provisions. Working intimately with the Brocade networking solutions over the past year, we established that they deliver on all fronts."

"Brocade offers best-in-class IP and storage networking solutions designed around a next-generation hardware and software architecture. This foresight ensures investment protection for our customers as they build their networks to support unified communications and a Virtual Network environment," said Fuccillo.

Juma’s Chief Executive Officer, Anthony M. Servidio, added: "We have already hit the ground running with the Brocade team to map out joint efforts that will drive business for both companies while providing the expertise and network solutions our clients are constantly seeking."

"We are excited to welcome Juma to the Brocade channel program," said Barbara Spicek, vice president of worldwide channels at Brocade. "Our channel partners increase our reach and touch to customers worldwide, and through ongoing investment and training we deliver the highest quality support to our partners. Brocade channel partners provide best-in-class networking expertise and strong customer commitment for our wide range of Brocade-based end-to-end advanced networking solutions."