History
Brocade was founded in August 1995, by Seth Neiman (a venture capitalist, a former executive from Sun Microsystems and a professional racer), Kumar Malavalli (a noted technology entrepreneur, philanthropist and co-author of the Fibre Channel technology) and Paul R. Bonderson (a former executive from Intel Corporation and Sun Microsystems). Seth Neiman became the first CEO of the company.
The company's first product, SilkWorm, which was a Fibre Channel Switch, was released in early 1997.
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