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Brocade, Satyam tie up for storage centers of excellence
By siliconindia staff writer
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Friday, 05 December 2003, 20:30 IST
BANGALORE: Storage Area Networks (SANs) infrastructure provider, Brocade Communications Systems Inc. is planning to set up Centers of Excellence around storage technologies in Bangalore, Mumbai and Delhi, in association with Hyderabad based software services major, Satyam Computer Services.
A strategic partnership has been inked between the two companies and projects this as an initiative to provide consulting services, developing the market for enterprise storage awareness and adoption, delivering services around system integration and building models to effectively transfer technology capabilities to the market place in India.
The worldwide SAN infrastructure market is estimated by Gartner Dataquest to experience a 53 per cent CAGR (Compound Annual Growth Rate) through the year 2005. The demand for SAN implementations and expertise to support industry development throughout Asia will be substantial and an exciting challenge.
"Asia Pacific in general and India in particular are no doubt, one of the fastest growing and most exciting places to be, if you are preparing for a future in storage," said James LaLonde, VP Worldwide Field Sales. "Since starting our India operation in 2001, we've devoted ourselves to meeting India's increasingly complex demands for storage networking. I'm pleased and thrilled to reinforce our relationship with Satyam to continue to drive the development of SAN adoption and deployment."
"Satyam values its relationship with Brocade - the technology leader in its field. Our partnership with Brocade covers multiple areas " said Kalyana Rao, President, Times and HiTech Business of Satyam. "As corporates invest more into IT infrastructure, we believe they will be looking at more comprehensive storage architectures that require greater management capabilities and skills. Our partnership and initiatives with Brocade enables us to create competencies and fulfill the market need", he added.