Webcasts

Thought leaders and guest experts weigh in and discuss the latest in networking solutions. You can register for an upcoming event for real-time interaction with Brocade or browse through our on-demand archive below.

On Demand Webcasts:

vMotion Across Metro Area with VMware and Brocade

Join us for this complimentary webcast with live Q&A:

Date: Thursday, October 20 at 9:00 a.m. PDT
Time: 9:00 a.m. PDT

Cross-site vMotion has always been one of the most highly requested capabilities for VMware vSphere®. Cross-site vMotion enables organizations to perform live migration of applications between datacenters, with no downtime. This is particularly useful for:

• Avoiding downtime for planned datacenter maintenance
• Disaster avoidance or migrating applications to another site before a disaster occurs
• Load balancing across sites
• Datacenter migrations

This webcast covers a reference architecture to implement a stretched vSphere cluster across two sites within a metro area. This architecture is particularly useful to enable cross-site vMotion and also supports the use of VMware High Availability (HA) to recover applications on the secondary site in the event of site outage. The architecture is based on VMware’s latest vSphere virtualization platform, virtualized storage and cloud-optimized networking. We will discuss the best practices for delivering the required service levels. Brocade will also describe the results of a collaborative solution validation incorporating vMotion over distance, EMC VPLEX virtual storage and Brocade VM aware networking infrastructure.

Featured Speakers:
Jason Nolet, VP, Data Center and Enterprise, Brocade
Gaetan Castelein, Director, Product Marketing, VMware

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Using Ethernet Fabric to Smoothly Transition Today's Architectures to Meet Tomorrow's Demands

Ethernet Fabrics are Evolving Data Center Architecture – Learn How

Discover how evolving data center architecture using Ethernet Fabrics is driving IT responsiveness and agility. View a new Webinar — Using Ethernet Fabric to Smoothly Transition Today's Architectures to Meet Tomorrow's Demands — from Brocade, featuring thought leader Gartner. They will discuss:

• The growing importance of virtualization and cloud computing as enabling technologies
• The impact these technologies are having on IT and the data center
• The role Ethernet Fabrics play in smoothly evolving yesterday's data center architecture to meet today's demands

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Brocade and VMware: Optimizing Data Center Virtualization and Cloud Computing

Presented by: Jon Hudson, Brocade, & Ravindra Neelakant, VMware
Date: Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Time: 10:00am PST

Brocade and VMware have a committed partnership that has resulted in several joint solutions. Three of these solutions will be highlighted in this webcast: Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, Business Continuity, and Virtual Compute Blocks.

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An Ethernet Fabric for the Cloud: Setting the Stage for the Next Generation Data Center

A new era of IT innovation is under way in the data center, aimed at addressing two separate but related goals:

• Quickly and efficiently drive revenue growth in today's fast-paced, information-centric environment
• Reduce the cost and complexity of today's current IT infrastructure.

Server, storage and network virtualization will be at the core of this innovation. Virtualization combined with IT's hopes for cloud computing will significantly influence the way organizations deploy and manage data center networks in today's fast-paced, information-centric environments. IDC believes fabric-based network infrastructures, commonly referred to as Ethernet fabric, will dominate the discussion for the foreseeable future, because it is an advance that enables organizations to build agile, business-ready data centers.

Attend this webcast to learn how to:

• Gain insight into this emerging type of network design
• Avoid obstacles created from the use of virtualization and cloud-based services
• Understand the need for Ethernet fabrics and the potential benefits they will have, such as controlling costs while delivering a more agile IT that can rapidly respond to changing business challenges
• Realize the benefits of Brocade® Virtual Cluster Switching™ technology, the industry's first true Ethernet fabric, to smoothly transition to a cloud-optimized data center

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Brocade VDX 6720 Switches Deliver Virtual Cluster Switching Technology

By their very nature, innovative Ethernet fabrics are flat, scalable, efficient, and simple to manage. Leveraging Brocade VCS™ technology, Brocade VDX 6720 Data Center Switches allow you to implement Ethernet fabrics — revolutionizing network design and paving the way for cloud-optimized networking.

Join your TechBytes host, Erik Pounds, Senior Product Marketing Manager, along with Brocade networking expert Gurpreet Singh, to learn how to deploy Brocade VDX solutions to enhance classic hierarchical network architectures, deploy flatter scale-out fabrics for virtualized data centers, and converge networks.

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Analytics Report Webcast: Networking for Virtualized Infrastructure and Applications presented by InformationWeek and sponsored by Brocade

When running a high-density virtual server farm and associated storage, IT needs a deep understanding of various technologies' performance characteristics and suitability for high-stress applications. In this InformationWeek Analytics Strategy Session report and Webcast, we will discuss:

• Technology considerations and pros and cons of network protocols and standards
• Emerging network topologies, including top-of-rack switching, options for aggregation switches and converged LAN/SAN edge switches
• Performance tradeoffs for top-of-rack switches and blade modules

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Best Practices: Optimizing the Hybrid Enterprise Data Center presented by InformationWeek and sponsored by Brocade

CIOs are anxious for the service assurance benefits of the cloud model to pay off, and for good reason. As the next major wave of computing productivity to hit the shores of IT, we're faced with new challenges around cost justifications. In this InformationWeek Analytics Strategy Session report and Webcast, we will discuss:

• What are the tangible benefits and true costs of cloud-enabling your data center?
• How can you assure the use of hybrid enterprise computing will meet your overall business needs
• How to predict and plan for the cloud while addressing overall scalability, security and reliability concerns

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Enabling Non-Stop Operations in Today's Campus Networks

Today's enterprise campus networks are expected to deliver services thought impossible just a few years ago. With a comprehensive family of high-availability products built for non-stop networking, Brocade® enables the reliable delivery of mission-critical applications across wired and wireless networks.

Join Tore Gillbrand, TechBytes host, along with Brocade technical experts Bill Ryan and Jared Valentine, to discuss:

• Today's campus network availability and reliability challenges
• Innovative Brocade products and technologies
• Field-proven best practices for campus network design

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Brocade Virtual Cluster Switching (VCS) Revolutionizes
Layer 2 Networking for Virtualized Data Centers

Not that long ago, information was stored predominately in text form. Now, graphical data is combined with audio and video, and all of it needs to be stored, indexed, and archived. Consumer demand is also increasing, and current economic conditions make it challenging to balance budgets. End users demand fast and reliable access to information around the clock. Business leaders require that IT functions meet and exceed stringent service levels with minimum downtime. In turn, IT must be able to move at the speed of business to capitalize on new opportunities and respond to increasing global competition.

Brocade® VCS™ enables next-generation virtual data center and private cloud computing initiatives with four main technology pillars: Ethernet Fabric, Distributed Intelligence, Logical Chassis, and Dynamic Services.

Join Ron Totah, TechBytes host, and Erik Pounds, Sr. Manager of Product Marketing at Brocade, to discuss key data center network challenges, including server virtualization, and how Brocade VCS technology addresses them.

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Brocade Networks Power Dynamic Solutions for Higher Education

Faced with growing student populations and restricted budgets, today's institutions of higher education are seeking new ways to attract students and faculty while cost-effectively delivering a world-class education. Technology is playing a key role in ensuring the success of these efforts. From applications that improve campus collaboration, to secure wireless access to campus resources, the network has become integral to the campus experience. Understand how next-generation wireless, powered edge connectivity, and standards such as MPLS can help ensure that your network meets the increased demands of new technologies, more users, and virtual campus departments.

Join TechBytes host Ron Totah and Brocade SE Manager Andy Anchev to discuss the evolution of campus networks. Learn how colleges and universities are scaling their existing network infrastructures to provide fast, reliable connectivity across and between campuses. And discover how these robust networks can deliver innovative technologies and applications to attract leading researchers, enhance instruction, and reduce operating costs.

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Next Gen Network: Making your network work in 2010 and beyond
Is your network ready for the next set of applications such as VoIP, Unified Communications, public and private cloud, and virtual infrastructures? The new technologies driven by business imperatives to reduce costs while improving productivity and reliability are going to impact every aspect of your network. Today's three tier architecture isn't going to cut it. You need a new plan. Welcome to the next generation network.

In this webcast you will:

• Learn about common network problems that impede application performance and how to solve them
• Discover new protocols and technologies in use today and coming in soon that will deliver better networking characteristics
• Get up to speed on the real world impacts that VoIP, video, and virtualization have on network traffic
• Understand the business impact that the next generation network will have on your organization

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Realizing Your IP Networks' Potential: Essential Components of an Extraordinary Network
Are the following trends impacting your IP network: Migration of voice and video traffic to IP; Expansion of network-based businesses; Traffic growth and new service requirements; Consolidation and virtualization initiatives?

If you said yes to any of those, you are not alone. With the growing number of mobile devices and heavy voice and video transport requirements, today's' businesses need faster, resilient, and more intelligent networks.

Learn how these trends impact your business and how you can increase network efficiency while reducing costs. You will hear about: Key business drivers and challenge; Considerations for applications, networks and critical services; Where to turn to for assistance.
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How EMR and Meaningful Use are Driving Hospital Network Infrastructure
Join experts from Forrester and Brocade for a discussion on EMR, meaningful use, and the resulting network requirements. Learn the timeline and key considerations for EMR deployment and see how other healthcare IT professionals have supported key initiatives such as EMR, collaboration and imaging.
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How to Enable your Network for VoIP and UC: Top 3 Critical Considerations
Join Brocade experts in a discussion exploring the challenges of VoIP deployment in legacy enterprise networks and learn how to "voice enable" your network infrastructure.
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TechBytes: Low Latency Lossless Ethernet (3LE) and the Future of HPC Networking
Although the world of High-Performance Computing (HPC) simulations might conjure images of complex theories, the scientific results of these simulations impact our lives every day. Today's supercomputers are at the leading edge of solutions that will become commonplace tomorrow. Many supercomputers are owned and managed by the Federal Government and their agencies, national labs, and major research institutions. But many are also in the private sector and are used for research and development as well as daily applications such as pharmaceutical research, oil reservoir simulation, financial risk models, and Internet search engines. Brocade and IBM discuss the network requirements for HPC systems and emerging CEE and TRILL standards—and how they will enhance HPC environments to deliver even greater value and scientific breakthroughs.
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TechBytes: Oracle Exadata Extreme Backup and Restore
As customers scale up their database servers, the backup data protection must scale accordingly. Find out how enterprise customers can scale up their database servers and meet RPO and RTO backup objectives using Brocade 8 Gbps Fiber Channel connectivity between the backup servers and storage.
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TechBytes: Cutting the Cord: Leveraging 802.11n Wireless LAN to Enhance Client Access and Productivity
The recently ratified 802.11n standard and products that deploy the technology have significantly increased WLAN throughput and made it possible to build highly available wireless infrastructures. Discussion of the hot topics that face enterprise WLAN architects and administrators today and the solutions available to address them.
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TechBytes: Emerging Networking Trends
Based on one-on-one interviews conducted every six months with thousands of IT decision makers in Global 2000 organizations, a discussion of key IT technology roadmaps, including storage, 8 Gbps FC, FCoE, solid state disk, block and file virtualization, 10 GbE, CEE, server virtualization, and information security.
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TechBytes: High-Performance Carrier Ethernet
Carrier Ethernet and Ethernet-based services are seeing rapid adoption globally. These services help service providers realize significant savings in operational expenses annually and offer a strong competitive advantage. Discussion of the technology behind Carrier Ethernet and Brocade product and solution offerings.
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TechBytes: Brocade Disaster Recovery Solutions
Storage over distance can now provide advanced functionality and services to ensure uninterrupted data flow between data centers and recovery sites. Learn how Brocade technology is currently used in the vast majority of enterprise disaster recovery and business continuance implementations worldwide.
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TechBytes: The Power of PoE/PoE+ for VoIP and Other Converged Application
PoE technology eliminates the need for an electrical outlet and a dedicated Uninterrupted Power Supply near IP-powered devices. With power sourcing equipment, power is consolidated and centralized in wiring closets, improving the reliability and resiliency of the network--and Brocade provides some key advantages over the competition.
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TechBytes: Building an Intelligent Network for Your Hyper-V Environment
Virtualization changes everything--and it all has to be managed. To help you gain control of this "brave new world," are new technologies such as SMI-S and the Brocade Management Pack for System Center. The conversation explores networking considerations for consolidating a server environment with Microsoft Hyper-V.
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TechBytes: Simplified, Scalable Web Application Delivery
Why now the added need for performance, security, and scalability in network Layer 4 - 7? Because enterprise mission-critical applications have migrated from a client-server environment to the Web and these applications need to be available 24x7 on a secure network with the ability to grow with business needs.
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TechBytes: How Secure Is Your Data?
By defining security policies and distributing them throughout the fabric in a centralized manner, organizations can gain greater control over data center environments and maintain a much higher degree of data integrity. A special TechBytes video roundtable with Brocade and outside experts discussing how Brocade is addressing security and encryption requirements in data centers.
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TechBytes: Brocade Extraordinary Networks!
The addition of Foundry's products and technologies enables Brocade to better address the needs of its customers and strengthens the company's position as a proven, high-performance networking leader. Brocade offers a comprehensive networking solution portfolio capable of addressing emerging market technology trends.
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TechBytes: Getting the Most Out of Server Virtualization
Server virtualization has been well received in development and test environments. However, deployment in the data center has been limited due to implementation, scalability, performance, and management challenges. A discussion on the infrastructure and capabilities that can help transform your data center and realize the potential of this exciting technology.
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TechBytes: Unified Management in the Data Center
As networks and the data center evolve, the number of management tools and applications continues to multiply, increasing management complexity. Brocade believes in a philosophy of unified management, in which the elements we can manage directly are consolidated to a single "pane of glass," while providing intelligence to higher-level applications for broader management across the data center.
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TechBytes: FCoE: Facts and Fiction
The first Brocade TechBytes Webcast explored FCoE and CEE, described the technology, and tried to evaluate where customers are in the adoption cycle--including the question of which IT group should manage the converged environment. The architecture of the Brocade 8000 Switch and the role of Brocade HBAs and CNAs is discussed.
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