Brocade, the leader in fabric-based data center architectures, has announced its OEM partners, including EMC, Hitachi Data Systems, HP and IBM, have voiced their support of the company's new next-generation Fibre Channel technologies that will help their enterprise customers migrate smoothly to private cloud architectures.

Brocade have developed the world's first fabric-based, end-to-end networking solutions based on industry-leading 16 gigabits per second (Gbps) Fibre Channel technologies. Fabric-based networks are a fundamental requirement in supporting highly virtualized data centers and private cloud environments.