Brocade 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:

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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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