Brocade Coporate Overview

Brocade Corporate Overview
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Why Are We Here?
Brocade
Cost Choice Solutions
Reduce IT Spend Open Solutions Leading Innovation

Target 30 to 50% World-Class Partners Your Timeline

We built a company designed to deliver the
next generation of networking technology
Purpose-built for the core networks that

drive enterprise business

Brocade Today
3,750 Employees Worldwide
26 Years of Networking Experience
Recognized Industry Thought Leader
Financially Strong
Networking Technology Specialists

Global Presence
Engineering Support
Manufacturing Logistics Sales
Facilities Services

The Global 1000 Relies on Brocade
Automotive Banking Chemical Electronics
Healthcare & Industrial Energy Service Providers

Pharmaceuticals & Farming & Telecom
Brocade is used in over 90% of Global 1000 Data Centers

Driving Networking Innovation and Standards
Fibre Channel Networking Ethernet Networking
1st SAN Routing 1st Gigabit Ethernet Switch
1st NPIV for Virtual Servers 1st 10 Gigabit Ethernet Switch
1st 8 Gigabit Fibre Channel 1st Multi-Terabit MPLS

Switch and Director and Internet Core Router
1st 8 Gigabit Blade Server 1st Two Billion Packet-per-

Fibre Channel Switch Second Switch and Router
Families
1st 10 Million SAN Switch 1st 15,000+ IP Networking

Ports Installed Customers worldwide

World-Class Solution Ecosystem
Enterprise networks require an ecosystem

10+ year relationships
Over $1B in cooperative development and testing
Open standards and partnerships mean choice

The network is experiencing massive growth
in data and traffic, and will need to evolve

Data and Traffic Growth
Impacting the network infrastructure
Devices
Volume
People
Persistence
Rich Media
An unprecedented
Exploding demand ability to
to store,
Applications
consume and source information
manage, manipulate, and distribute
from
data anywhere
Computation Criticality
Mobility Relevance
End Points The Network Data Center

Challenging Times in the Global Economy
IT has to do more with less
Global Cost Shrinking

GDP Growth Reduction Budgets

Today’s data center and enterprise
networks will need to evolve
What choices do you have?
Status Quo
Experiment with new
Technologies
Proprietary Solutions

Extraordinary Networks

Defining the Extraordinary Network
Data Center
Class Reliability
High Intelligently
Performance Innovative
Ecosystem-
Centric
Optimized
Energy-
Lifecycle
Efficient
Costs
Operational
Simplicity

Proven technology
Data Center Highest quality
Class Reliability Lowest risk
Market leading Pushes the envelope
Highest density High Intelligently Pragmatically delivered
Most demanding apps Performance Innovative Enables business
Future-ready transformation
Choice
World-class partners Ecosystem-
Standards-based
Open architecture
Centric
Lower acquisition costs Optimized High density

Lower operation costs
Energy- Consumes less power
Investment protection
Lifecycle Efficient Generates less heat
Faster ROI and lower TCO Costs
Operational Intuitive operation
Consistent management
Simplicity It just works

Data Center
Class Reliability
Solutions
High Intelligently
Performance Innovative
Ecosystem-
Centric Choice
Optimized
Energy-
Lifecycle
Efficient
Costs
Operational Cost
Simplicity

Strategies for an Extraordinary Network
Extend the Leverage Shared Provide Seamless
Data Center Technology Delivery
Management One Face

Speed
Framework to the Customer
Components and
Cost End-to-End Support
Architecture
Operating System World-Class

Quality
Services Partner Ecosystem
Consistent
Risk Global Logistics
Performance

Focused on Three Distinct Segments
Data Center Campus Networks Service Providers

Our Commitment to You
Brocade is your trusted partner

for end-to-end networks
Cost Choice Solutions
Reduce IT Spend Open Solutions Leading Innovation

Target 30 to 50% World-Class Partners Your Timeline


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© 2009 Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.

© 2009 Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.

Cost Choice Solutions

Reduce IT Spend Open Solutions Leading Innovation

© 2009 Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.

Purpose-built for the core networks that

© 2009 Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.

3,750 Employees Worldwide

26 Years of Networking Experience

Recognized Industry Thought Leader

Networking Technology Specialists

© 2009 Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.

© 2009 Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.

Automotive Banking Chemical Electronics

Healthcare & Industrial Energy Service Providers

Brocade is used in over 90% of Global 1000 Data Centers

© 2009 Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.

 1st NPIV for Virtual Servers  1st 10 Gigabit Ethernet Switch

 1st 8 Gigabit Fibre Channel  1st Multi-Terabit MPLS

 1st 8 Gigabit Blade Server  1st Two Billion Packet-per-

 1st 10 Million SAN Switch  1st 15,000+ IP Networking

Ports Installed Customers worldwide

 Enterprise networks require an ecosystem

© 2009 Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.

© 2009 Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.

End Points The Network Data Center

© 2009 Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.

IT has to do more with less

Global Cost Shrinking

© 2009 Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.

What choices do you have?

© 2009 Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.

© 2009 Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.

© 2009 Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.

 Lower acquisition costs Optimized  High density

© 2009 Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.

© 2009 Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.

Management One Face

Operating System World-Class

© 2009 Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.

Data Center Campus Networks Service Providers

© 2009 Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.

Brocade is your trusted partner

Cost Choice Solutions

Reduce IT Spend Open Solutions Leading Innovation

© 2009 Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.

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1st NPIV for Virtual Servers 1st 10 Gigabit Ethernet Switch

1st 8 Gigabit Fibre Channel 1st Multi-Terabit MPLS

1st 8 Gigabit Blade Server 1st Two Billion Packet-per-

1st 10 Million SAN Switch 1st 15,000+ IP Networking

Enterprise networks require an ecosystem

Lower acquisition costs Optimized High density