Brocade Communications Systems 8/80 User Manual

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Gartner’s IT Market Clock for Storage Technologies— Fibre Channel  Fibre Channel just reaching prime of lifecycle today  Server virtualization has

Fibre Channel Purchase Plans Strong and Growing RESULTS OF THE BROCADE ANNUAL CUSTOMER SURVEY Source: Brocade Annual Customer Survey, July 2011 Survey

 Rely on a network that delivers unequaled uptime  Data center-proven reliability and availability, innovative business continuity and encryption s

 Simpler, flatter, low-latency chassis topologies  64 Gbps Fibre Channel uplinks via 16 Gbps Quad-SFP  Maximizes performance and scalability  Few

231x4G 33x4G 132x4G 132x4G Consolidate Today Lower Operating Costs HP B-SERIES ICL ADVANTAGE EXAMPLE—1000 DEVICE PORTS 7/17/2012 © 2012 Broca

HP B-series SAN Real World Consolidation Examples HP SN8000B Deliver Savings Today 7/17/2012 © 2012 Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. Proprietary

 End users accelerating transition to new platform technology  Consolidating infrastructure is saving operating costs  Hundreds, thousands of cable

Fibre Channel Reigns for Virtualization WHICH PROTOCOLS DO YOU USE FOR NETWORKING VIRTUAL SERVER HOSTS TO STORAGE? 7/17/2012 17 76% 36% 23% 4% 4% 0%

Is FC SAN Relevant for Virtualized Data Centers? VMware VMmark 2.1.1— www.vmware.com/a/vmmark/ 7/17/2012 © 2012 Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.

1996 2009 2000 2005 190 170 150 130 110 90 70 50 30 10 0 Source: Gartner 7/17/2012 19 Normalized CPU Performance and Storage Access Time Multicore

HP & BROCADE: LEADING THE TRANSITION TO THE CLOUD Senior Solutioneer, Principal, Brocade AJ Casamento

 Unprecedented uptime & reduced operation costs  Not about protocol—it’s storage networking innovation  Targeted at storage professionals, dev

Unequaled uptime via proven, industry leading reliability and availability Consolidate today and simplify your fabrics to reduce operating expense

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 Pioneer and leader in data center networking  90 percent of Global 1000 rely on Brocade solutions  More than 200,000 Brocade SANs in production

Brocade’s Data Center Focus  Fabrics to drive simplicity, reliability, flexibility and cost savings  Continued leadership in Fibre Channel SANs  In

 >10M FC switch ports shipped!  1st OEM to GA & sell 16 Gbps Directors  FY11: Record number of Directors sold  78% Yr./Yr. growth in adapte

SEAMLESS SAN MANAGEMENT WITHIN HP FRAMEWORKS HP B-Series Solutions  HP CloudSystem Matrix  HP SPM / Matrix Automated Storage Provisioning integratio

STORAGE AND SAN SERVICES MANAGEMENT FOR CLOUDSYSTEM MATRIX HP Storage Provisioning Manager (SPM)  HP Matrix’ automated HP Storage Provisioning Manage

SIMPLE AND SECURE HP 3PAR Virtual Domains with HP B-Series Virtual Fabrics 3PAR Virtual Domains  Master administrator creates/assigns users, logical

 June 2011, 16 Gbps switch portfolio launched by Brocade and its OEM partners  CQ4’2011 and CQ1’2012 record TAM for Fibre Channel SAN market (Dell’