Overview of Brocade Communications Systems

To provide the world's most comprehensive family of data center networking and shared storage solutions, Brocade develops leading-edge technologies that provide true innovation and real-world business value. As a result, Brocade is highly experienced at solving some of the most critical storage, server, and data management challenges. With a proven track record of expertise and long-term relationships with the world's leading IT companies, Brocade protects existing technology investments while providing a powerful, scalable, and strategic foundation for continued growth.

Brocade products provide cost-effective, reliable solutions for managing information growth and increasing the overall efficiency of IT environments. These solutions help organizations build reliable IT foundations to support some of their most critical business needs, such as:

• Increasing information availability and ensuring higher levels of business continuance
• Managing larger amounts of data more efficiently
• Automating management tasks to reduce administrative costs
• Extending the value of existing IT resources

The Benefits of using Brocade Communications Systems

Brocade solutions maximize the value of data by consolidating shared storage environments and enabling cost-effective, centralized management of business-critical information.

Brocade products are designed to help IT organizations manage and profit from their data assets in the most efficient, cost-effective manner. To do so, Brocade products leverage industry-leading technologies that solve a wide range of challenges in shared storage data center environments.

The Brocade family of data center networking solutions includes data center backbones and Storage Area Network (SAN) products such as industry-leading switches, directors, routers, embedded switches for blade servers, fabric-based applications, and management software. Additional data center infrastructure solutions include intelligent file management solutions for file data and storage resources in File Area Network (FAN) environments.

Together, these products provide innovative, reliable solutions that simplify IT infrastructure, increase resource utilization, and maximize return on investment.

The Value of Brocade Communications Systems

By deploying a flexible Brocade data center fabric infrastructure composed of hardware, software, and services, organizations can easily move, manage, and share storage resources across the enterprise while simplifying administration.

This scalable shared storage approach incorporates intelligence directly into the data center fabric to solve many of today's most pressing IT challenges. As a result, organizations can enjoy a much more manageable storage environment and a lower total cost of ownership.

Brocade offers both Fabric OS (FOS) and M-Enterprise OS (M-EOS) platforms that can seamlessly integrate into new or existing IT environments by using unique interoperability technologies. Direct E_Port connectivity, Fibre Channel routing, and the Brocade Access Gateway for blade server SAN switches provide implementation flexibility and greater ease of use for connecting Brocade FOS and M-EOS platforms.