brocade adc

Brocade

Brocade specializes in storage networking products. The company is known for its Fibre Channel storage networking products and technology.

SKUDONET

SKUDONET® began its public release in October 2010, and we have not stopped refining security, scalability, and high availability technology ever since.

Brocade’s Strengths

• Brocade ADC features, licensing options and roadmaps are well-aligned with organizations looking to deploy ADC within their virtual or cloud developments.
• Provides a no-cost, license free developer edition that is fully featured and can be acquired in one click.
• Offers an advanced pricing model that provides consumption based billing.
• Brocade has a containerized ADC form factor in the market for several years, well ahead of other ADC competitors.

SKUDONET’s Strengths

• Disruptive vision with a stable growth as challengers in the ADC market, with an agile team and engaged community.
• Innovation driven with Open Source technology with no vendor lock-in and broad platforms integration (hardware, virtual, bare metal and cloud).
• Very high cost-effective solutions without limitation products and services, suitable for both midsize organizations and large enterprises.
• Investment in R&D to deliver a technology driven by easiness, performance and security.
• Is a complete ADC (Application Delivery Controller) that could manage all kinds of network protocols (UDP, TCP, HTTP/S, SCTP, SIP, T/FTP, …) but also with a combination of all of them simultaneously and multiport capabilities; and it’s not oriented to licensed features.
• Its operating system is fully optimized for networking so it is capable to move in layer 7 more than 140 thousand concurrent users and in layer 4 more than 10 million concurrent users with only 2 dedicated cores.
• Ability to create configuration backups, easy cluster configuration, automatic replication from one node to another and stateful cluster with real time sessions replications that permits a failover between nodes without losing any connection.
• Provides an integrated IPDS security system with real time black hole lists, DoS protection, black/white listing and protection of the most common network attacks.
• Provides a very UX graphic interface for both operators and network engineers in Angular 2 technology.
• Automation capabilities thanks to it’s fully programmable REST+JSON API.

Brocade’s Weaknesses

• Does not offer a turnkey hardware appliance, in which hardware/software support is sourced from Brocade ADC.
• Lacks visibility in the market and was not identified as a top competitor.
• Customers have raised concerns over the discontinuation of Brocade´s legacy ADC product line, the ADX.

SKUDONET’s Weaknesses

•  Young brand as an open source company and yet to develop a big influence than other more established vendors.
•  Needs to develop a broader partnership network.