Brocade is taking steps to help improve energy efficiencies by focusing on products and programs that support the development of green data centers. We are committed to doing our part to provide our customers with high performance, low energy, data management solutions.

Driving energy efficiency in the data center. We challenge ourselves, our partners and our customers to explore and embrace more efficient business and data center operations.

At Brocade, our focus is on data center efficiency. It's part of our DNA. We provide products that increase productivity and reduce energy consumption. We work hard to encompass all elements of efficiency including energy, planning, processes, manageability, scalability and more.

• We make products that help run efficient operations and help the environment in the process.
• We work with our partners and customers to maximize their data center efficiencies.
• We challenge our employees to realize greater efficiency for our own operational processes.

Brocade supports green data centers that reduce energy consumption and collectively provide greater operational efficiency. Brocade increases efficiency through:

• Power and Cooling: Compared to competitive directors, Brocade's generate only a third of the heat, require less cooling, and leave more power for other devices in a rack configuration. Learn more
• Heterogeneity/Scalability: Our products support and simplify high performance data migration across heterogeneous environments. Learn More
• Ease of Management: Our solutions consolidated shared storage environments and enable cost effective, centralized information management. Learn More

We're joining with industry partners to drive standards for green data centers. Read more about our partners.

• The SNIA
• The Green Grid

1. "Estimating Total Power Consumption By Servers In the US And the World," Jonathan Koomey, Staff Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Consulting Professor, Stanford University, February 15, 2007 (Commissioned by AMD)