GEC NEWS WIREIndustry veteran to lead regional growth and operational excellence, further strengthening the Brocade leadership team
Brocade has appointed Brian Levy as senior director of technology, EMEA. This newly created position is the latest in a series of high-profile new hires for Brocade as it further strengthens its leadership team, so as to enable the company to more effectively target technology areas such as the Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) markets.
Levy joins Brocade from Juniper Networks and bring with him decades of specialized industry experience from the data center networking industry. He shall be responsible for bringing Brocade’s vision for cloud strategy and virtualized infrastructure to the market. Levy will also be charged with providing insight and communicating product vision and direction internally and externally, to both customers and analysts.
“With 92 percent of senior IT decision makers admitting that their current infrastructure is not scalable enough to support next-generation applications, it is clear that we are, by necessity, on the verge of a major change in how we design, deploy, and manage network infrastructure,” commented Levy. He added that he is very much looking forward to working with the rest of the EMEA team and Brocade’s customers to help turn the huge potential of new technologies such as SDN and NFV into a reality.
