Brocade to Acquire Strategic Business Systems
To expand its professional services offerings for evolving data centers
This is a Press Release edited by StorageNewsletter.com on March 6, 2008 at 4:16 pm
Brocade
has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Strategic Business Systems (SBS),
a privately held provider of IT professional services for medium-size and
large enterprises in both the commercial and federal government sectors.
Founded in 2000, and headquartered in Herndon, Virginia, SBS is a leading
provider of data center-focused professional services and has established
partnerships with many of the industry’s largest providers of IT systems. SBS
has a team of skilled consultants who provide technical expertise across a
wide range of professional services practices, including storage, servers,
security, networking, and virtualization services that address the
requirements of enterprise data centers.
"The data center is evolving at unprecedented rates and customers are
asking us to provide more services that solve real-world business challenges.
SBS’s team of skilled professionals and comprehensive portfolio of service
methodologies will enable us to offer an expanded line of services that
address the challenges of our customers’ rapidly evolving data centers," said
Michael Klayko, Brocade CEO.
The SBS services complement the existing portfolio of Brocade professional
services offerings, including:
- Data Center Fabric Infrastructure: Enables business agility and growth
by providing a robust and flexible data management infrastructure - Virtualization: Provides cost-effective, flexible, and efficient use of
IT infrastructure across the data center - Data Protection/Security: Helps ensure that data is safe and highly
available to meet both business and compliance objectives - Data Migration: Supports reliable data movement to make sure data is
available wherever and whenever it is needed
"The data center is undergoing a fundamental change, and customers are
increasingly looking for outside help to manage this transformation," said
Doug Chandler, Research Director at IDC. "Brocade’s acquisition of SBS is
consistent with its goal of building an end-to-end services portfolio."
The acquisition of SBS is expected to close in the second quarter of
Brocade’s Fiscal Year 2008. Following the close, SBS will be managed as a
wholly owned subsidiary within the Brocade Services, Support, and Solutions
Division under the leadership of Brocade Vice President and General Manager
Hugues Meyrath.
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