Eric Herzog, CMO, IBM  
“For over 20 years, IBM and Brocade, a Broadcom company, have collaborated to develop Fibre Channel and FICON storage solutions for our clients. With the release of Brocade's Gen 7 SAN technology combined with IBM FlashSystem and DS8900F storage arrays, our on-premises and hybrid-cloud solutions will continue to address the critical performance, automation, and resiliency requirements for our clients’ data centers.”

Kamran Amini, Vice President & General Manager, Server, Storage and Software Defined Infrastructure, Lenovo Data Center Group
“As a leading provider of all-flash array storage and fully enabled end-to-end NVMe solutions, Lenovo along with Broadcom, and our extensive partnership focused on innovative solutions, are delivering the next-generation SAN switching Gen 7 Fibre Channel technology to help customers accelerate their ability to gain insights from business-critical data,” said Kamran Amini, vice president and general manager, Server, Storage and Software Defined Infrastructure, Lenovo Data Center Group. “Lenovo’s ThinkSystem Server and Storage solutions will utilize the new Brocade SAN switching to deliver integrated infrastructure solutions that will dramatically improve application performance with enterprise support.”

Kim Stevenson, SVP, Foundational Data Services Business Unit, NetApp
“Global customers rely on NetApp’s innovative, highly available Fibre Channel SAN solutions to realize maximum performance of their mission critical applications. NetApp and Broadcom provided the industry’s first end-to-end NVMe/FC modern SAN with cloud-connected storage, enabling customers to realize operational and performance efficiencies across their entire hybrid cloud infrastructure. In conjunction with NetApp’s leading SAN storage platforms, Brocade’s new Gen 7 Fibre Channel portfolio will further advance NetApp’s delivery of leading SAN solutions to power customers’ most demanding enterprise SAN workloads.”

Scott Baker, VP Flash Array Product Marketing, Pure Storage
“Brocade, a Broadcom company, and Pure Storage’s collaboration advances the modern data experience by delivering an ultra-low latency storage network architecture to the industry-leading Flash Array all-NVMe portfolio, resulting in consistent and predictable workload performance and improved data mobility. We are proud to bring Brocade’s Gen 7 switching platforms to our customers to meet their ever-changing business requirements and deliver a greater return on investment.”