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In the face of shrinking budgets, IT investments are increasingly under scrutiny. Brocade Capital Solutions® offer our customers flexible financing options with Brocade Network Subscription and Brocade Lease Programs.

Brocade Network Subscription provides a new way for organizations to acquire cloud-optimized network infrastructure on a monthly subscription basis. It is a flexible, open-ended way to deploy network infrastructure and aligns capacity with changing business requirements.

Brocade Network Subscription has no term commitments and provides complete obsolescence protection to expand, contract, or refresh infrastructure based on ever-evolving requirements.

• Enterprises can keep network investments off the balance sheet so that they do not impact credit ratings and performance metrics.
• Service providers can align network infrastructure costs with revenue, streamlining time to profitability.
• Government agencies gain the flexibility to upgrade anytime by spreading the cost over several fiscal years.

Moreover, organizations can upgrade to the latest equipment, at any time. There is no need to wait for CapEx budgets or depreciation schedules to catch up.

With Brocade Network Subscription, organizations can invest in scaling their businesses instead of their networks by avoiding network infrastructure capital expenditures. They also can avoid rigid multi-year lease obligations through a "pay-as-you-go" approach. In addition, Brocade direct support helps maximize availability and performance while eliminating the need to manage separate support contracts.

Analysts

Joe Pucciarelli, Vice President & IT Executive Advisor at IDC, talks with Brocade customers and documents their experiences: "Brocade Network Subscription: Two Years After Product Launch – Customer Experiences"

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Brocade Network Subscription

...provides additional differentiation and enhances Brocade's data center vision.

2013 Data Center Magic Quadrant, Gartner

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Customers

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Wesley Jess and Rob Jackson of Rackspace Hosting, a service leader in cloud computing, talk about how Brocade Network Subscription has enabled them to align costs with revenues, and why that's critical to their business.

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Whether you're an enterprise or an emerging business, you're looking for scalable and flexible cloud technologies that can meet your technology and budgetary needs. The Brocade Network Subscription model fits that to a T.

Rob Jackson, Product Development Manager, Rackspace

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