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Brocade Fabric OS (FOS) v7.0.0d FICON Qualification Letter

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Brocade® and ShoreTel® have worked together to provide an easy-to-deploy, interoperable voice over IP (VoIP) networking solution based on Brocade network switches and routers and ShoreTel's Pure IP Unified Communications. We have validated both the interoperability of our joint products and, with customer validation, the ease of installation, operation and ownership of our solutions.

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This paper provides a comprehensive set of best practices to guide data center SAN architecture and design.

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Providing server connectivity products is the next logical step in fulfilling Brocade’s mission to deliver enterprise-class, end-to-end storage networking solutions. Brocade server connectivity solutions extend fabric based services to data center server platforms for dependable and high-performance storage access.

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Providing server connectivity products is the next step in fulfilling Brocade’s mission to deliver enterprise-class, end-to-end storage networking solutions. With Brocade server connectivity solutions, Brocade is now extending fabric-based services to data center server platforms for dependable and high-performance storage access.

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The guiding principles driving a new architecture for the data center include consolidation, virtualization, service-level resource allocation, and policy-based data management. These principles simplify how business exploits its data for competitive advantage in a cost-effective manner—as detailed in this paper.

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The guiding principles driving a new architecture for the data center include consolidation, virtualization, service-level resource allocation, and policy-based data management. These principles simplify how business exploits its data for competitive advantage in a cost-effective manner.

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IT managers sound off about what they learned from relocating their organization’s data centers

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At a time when many Silicon Valley companies are tightening their belts and handing out pink slips, Brocade Communications Systems Inc. has plans to more than double its hiring program of new college graduates this year through its University Development Program.

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Overview of Brocade’s new pay-as-you-go subscription program for data-center-based IP network infrastructure.

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High performance MySWL Cluster reference architecture with GridIron SSD and Brocade Fibre Channel SANs

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High performance Oracle RAC reference architecture with Texas Memory SSD and Brocade Fibre Channel SANs

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Enterprises need new networking solutions to enable intelligent, automated provisioning of a dynamic infrastructure for on-demand IT resource allocation. Dynamic provisioning technology, embedded in Layer 4–7 switches, can add a level of intelligence so that enterprises better use network, virtualization, and application resources to meet the business application demands of an everchanging workforce and customer base.

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Virtualization is changing expectations for enterprise networks. The virtual top-of-rack solution available in Dell™ PowerConnect™ B-MLXe routers can provide an infrastructure designed for high performance, resiliency, scalability, and simplicity.

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A Continuity Insights Report

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Provides a high level overview of the 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) WAN PHY defined in the IEEE 802.3ae standard.

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The Brocade ADX 1000 Series can be quickly upgraded in the field using software keys. This allows organizations to enable a full suite of hardware and software options when needed without disabling the system, which can disrupt service.

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Brocade sets the industry standard for resiliency and high availability by enabling non-stop networking in data center and campus environments. This enables organizations to achieve a competitive advantage in their network infrastructures.

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Brocade FastIron® SX Series switches support continuous uptime in campus core/aggregation and campus edge networks through hitless failover and hitless in-service software upgrades—High Availability (HA) technologies that address the demand for increased network availability by reducing device downtime.

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True Quality of Service Enables Reliable Server Virtualization.

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Delivering more than twice the performance of competing HBAs, Brocade FC HBAs also offer advanced features supporting enterprise-class, end-to-end storage networking solutions.

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A key component of the Brocade Data Center Fabric (DC F) architecture, Fabric-Based Boot LUNLUN Discovery delivers reliable diskless server deployment for the virtualized data center. Deploying diskless servers versus servers with locally attached storage reduces power consumption, improves server reliability, and speeds up server provisioning.

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The Brocade family of 4 and 8 Gbit/sec Fibre Channel (FC) Host Bus Adapters (HBAs) support a unique combination of enabling technologies that remove barriers to virtualizing the most demanding business applications.

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Leveraging the extension of Advanced Fabric Services to virtual workloads via embedded Host Bus Adapter (HBA) technologies, Brocade has built Virtual Channel technology into its switches and HBAs, to facilitate end-to-end QoS. This HBA integration solution is designed to help IT organizations deploy and manage true end-to-end Storage Area Network (SAN) services across next-generation virtualized data centers.

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Brocade has extended its ISL Trunking technology, which consolidates and aggregates multiple ISLs between switches into a single logical connection, into the host using Brocade FC HBAs. Two ports can be trunked on a dual-port HBA into one logical port, providing double the bandwidth of a single port and guaranteeing maximum utilization of the total bandwidth.

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The highest levels of performance and Brocade Adaptive Networking features, which have previously been available only in Storage Area Network (SAN) Fibre Channel (FC) switches, combined with industryleading availability and management make Brocade Fibre Channel (FC) Host Bus Adapters (HBAs) the best choice for use with Microsoft Exchange.

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IBM offers a broad Information Management Software line. DB2 is one of IBM’s Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) software products—with industry-leading performance on distributed systems, offering unparalleled efficiencies for staffing and storage.

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As customers require access to their data not only in the enterprise space but also from cloud services and mobile devices, new demands are being placed on database performance. This paper examines the server I/O requirements to support Microsoft SQL Server deployments effectively.

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Today’s SAP applications consist of multiple individual instances, such as Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Business Information Warehouse (BW), Customer Relationship Management (CRM, or SCM), and Process Integration (PI). They are implemented in the well-known three-stage approach (production, quality assurance, and development). SAP is a good example to demonstrate Brocade optimization solutions from the storage and networking perspective.

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The Brocade Host Connectivity Manager (HCM) is uniquely tailored to address the needs of server administrators, while Brocade Data Center Fabric Manager (DCFM) maximizes the productivity of the SAN administrator. Together, these tools offer an integrated end-to-end SAN management suite for the enterprise data center.

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New high-performance 10 GbE ports can be used to connect both storage and servers into the existing iSCSI network. Existing servers with 1 GbE connections can access the newly deployed 10 GbE storage; and new servers with 10 GbE… connections can access excising 1 GbE storage. This allows you to utilize 10 GbE iSCSI storage for higher-performance server access to storage or to support more 1 GbE servers per storage array.

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With Brocade Server Application Optimization (SAO), Brocade HBAs deliver much more than leading SAN connectivity performance. When used with Brocade storage fabrics with SAO, only Brocade HBAs enable advanced Adaptive Networking features, such as QoS, designed to ensure Service Level Agreements (SLAs) in dynamic or unpredictable enterprise-class virtual server environments with mixed-SLA workloads.

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The Brocade TurboIron 24X uses state-of-the-art ASIC design, front-to-back air flow, automatic fan-speed control, and power-efficient optics to ensure the most efficient use of power and cooling.

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Recent benchmarking of the Brocade 815 Fibre Channel HBA clearly demonstrates 2x performance leadership in the 8 Gbit/sec HBA category. The level of I/O performance confirmed by Medusa Labs Testing Service is unique to Brocade or Brocade’s OEM solutions. In the virtualized data center with consolidation of physical servers, only Brocade FC HBAs can ensure that your data center fabric provides the scalability needed to meet virtualization requirements.

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In today’s enterprise-class data centers, administrators do not have the luxury of time. Keeping track of driver and firmware versions creates a management nightmare. Brocade believes that this complexity is an unnecessary burden on administrators, which is why we developed a unified driver approach in which firmware is embedded into the driver package.

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This guide describes best practices for incorporating cabling in a typical data center, plus tips for selecting cabling components and information on data transmission media.

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This guide discusses topics related to mixing FICON and FCP devices in the same Storage Area Network (SAN), focusing on issues that end users need to address. These include specifics for the IBM zEnterprise System, as well as the fabric elements to consider when evaluating a FICON/FCP intermix solution.

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Describes recommended cabling solutions for high-density port solutions based on the Brocade FC8-64 FC port blade.

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This Encryption Best Practices Guide is designed to help customers and partners architect and design Brocade encryption solutions to maximize system performance, minimize administrative overhead, and mitigate the possibility of operational disruptions.

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A variety of Operations, Administration, and Management (OAM) protocols and tools have been developed recently for MPLS, IP, and Ethernet networks, which provide the unparalleled power to proactively manage networks and customer SLAs. This paper reviews the OAM tools available at various layers and describes best practices for choosing the right OAM tool to use for particular network deployments.

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Executive Primer: The Patient-Centered IT Network

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BASCS in Nutshell Study Guide

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Brocade 100 Gbps SR10 Optical Transceiver Data Sheet

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Brocade 10 Gbps ZR (80km) Optical Transceiver

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The Brocade 1860 Fabric Adapter is a new class of adapter that meets all the connectivity needs of cloud-enabled data centers while providing unmatched performance, application-aware services, unified management, and reduced cost and complexity. It is the simplest, most flexible, and most powerful server connectivity adapter designed to extend fabric services to Virtual Machines (VMs) and applications in highly demanding virtualized environments.

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The Brocade 804 8 Gbps Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter (HBA) for HP BladeSystem c-Class is a new class of Fibre Channel mezzanine card designed to help IT organizations deploy and manage end-to-end Storage Area Network (SAN) services across next-generation data centers.

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Brocade® Advanced Performance Monitoring—based on Brocade Frame Filtering technology and a unique performance counter engine—is a comprehensive tool for monitoring the performance of networked storage resources. This ASIC-based monitoring tool helps reduce the total cost of ownership and over-provisioning while enabling Storage Area Network (SAN) performance tuning, reporting of Service Level Agreements (SLAs), and greater administrator productivity.

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Before implementing a “green” IT strategy, organizations must first understand the environmental issues of their current IT infrastructures. The Brocade Energy Efficiency Review service can help these organizations analyze their data center environments—identifying ways to improve energy efficiency and reduce power/cooling costs as part of a strategic next-generation data center.

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Simplifying Fibre Channel HBA Management

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Brocade ICX 6610 Switch Data Sheet

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Brocade offers Data Center Virtualization Services to help optimize application and fabric performance, improve data protection, and unify management across entire virtual data center environments.

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As the industry’s leading data center networking solutions provider and experts in VMware, Brocade® offers Data Center Virtualization Services to help optimize application and fabric performance, improve data protection, and unify management across entire virtual data center environments.

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Brocade Server Application Optimization (SAO) works in conjunction with Brocade adapters to enhance overall application performance and Virtual Machine (VM) scalability by extending Brocade data center fabric technologies, such as Quality of Service, to the application level.

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Using a Web-based user interface, Siemens OpenScape ComAssistant serves up a suite of PBX and call control features to support enterprise communications. This brief provides guidance for ServerIron configuration in ComAssistant deployments.

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Step-by-step guide from unpacking Brocade Mobility controllers and access points to configuring these devices to work with FastIron CX Series and setting up wireless connectivity.

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Describes best practices for configuring a Brocade network infrastructure with Microsoft Communications Server 2010, details the role of network layers in a data center, and explains why a solid network foundation is critical for a successful deployment.

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The flexibility and simplified high availability of Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 come from innovations to the core Exchange Server 2010 platform, enhancing performance, scalability, and reliability, while reducing TCO.

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Provides a reference architecture and procedures for deploying the Brocae ServerIron ADX Series switches with Microsoft Exchange Server 2010.

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This guide describes the software features supported on the BigIron RX Series Switch and the CLI commands used to configure them.

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This guide describes the BigIron RX Series Switch. It provides procedures for installing the interface modules, power supplies, and other components of the switch.

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This guide provides configuration information for features for FCX, FSX, FWS, FESX, ICX, and TurboIron 24X devices running software release 07.4.00a.

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This guide describes the FastIron GS® (FGS) FGS POE (Power over Ethernet), FGS POE-upgradeable, and FGS-STK compact switches. This guide includes procedures for installing the hardware and configuring essential, basic parameters such as permanent passwords and IP addresses. The basic software configuration procedures show how to perform tasks using the CLI. This guide also includes instructions for managing and maintaining the hardware.

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This document is designed for system administrators with a working knowledge of Layer 2 and Layer 3 switching and routing.

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This guide describes the debug commands for the Brocade MLX Series and Brocade NetIron XMR.

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This guide describes the software features and the CLI commands used to configure the Brocade MLX Series and Brocade NetIron Family devices.

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This document contains updates to the Multi-Service IronWare 05.4.xx product manuals.

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This guide contains setup and advanced configuration instructions for the Brocade Mobility 5181 Access Point.

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This guide contains setup and advanced configuration instructions for the Brocade Mobility 7131 Access Point.

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This guide describes how to install the Brocade Mobility 7131-GR Access Point.

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This guide describes how to install the Brocade Mobility 7131 Access Point.

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This guide describes how to install the dependent mode version of the Brocade Mobility 7131 access point.

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This guide describes the configurations of administrative features used to manage Brocade Mobility Access Point Controllers.

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This guide is a reference of the CLI commands used to configure the Brocade Mobility Controllers.

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This guide describes the configurations of administrative features used to manage the Brocade Mobility Controllers.

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This guide describes how to install the Brocade Mobility RFS4000 Controller.

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This guide describes how to install the Brocade Mobility RFS6000 Controller.

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This guide describes how to install the Brocade Mobility RFS7000 Controller.

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This guide is a reference of the CLI commands used to configure the Brocade Mobility RFS7000-GR Controller.

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This guide describes how to install the Brocade Mobility RFS7000-GR Controller.

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This guide describes the configurations of administrative features used to manage the Brocade RFS7000-GR Controller.

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This guide describes the Brocade NetIron CES and Brocade NetIron CER devices. It provides procedures for installing the interface modules, power supplies, and other components of the device. It also includes some basic software installation and configuration information to get the device up and running.

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This document details instructions for upgrading Brocade MLX series and NetIron Family products.

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This document contains the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) Management Information Base (MIB) objects that are supported on devices.

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This document describes how to install RJ45 and mRJ21 cables into the cable cinch.

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This Support Matrix or Cross Reference may include tested compatible operating systems, servers, storage, tape devices, switches and third-party software, as well as partner certified applications for Brocade or Brocade's OEM-branded HBAs, as well as Emulex and QLogic HBAs, with native and OEM part number cross references.

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This Support Matrix or Cross Reference may include tested compatible operating systems, servers, storage, tape devices, switches and third-party software, as well as partner certified applications for Brocade or Brocade's OEM-branded HBAs, as well as Emulex and QLogic HBAs, with native and OEM part number cross references.

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This Support Matrix or Cross Reference may include tested compatible operating systems, servers, storage, tape devices, switches and third-party software, as well as partner certified applications for Brocade or Brocade's OEM-branded HBAs, as well as Emulex and QLogic HBAs, with native and OEM part number cross references.

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This Support Matrix or Cross Reference may include tested compatible operating systems, servers, storage, tape devices, switches and third-party software, as well as partner certified applications for Brocade or Brocade's OEM-branded HBAs, as well as Emulex and QLogic HBAs, with native and OEM part number cross references.

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This Support Matrix or Cross Reference may include tested compatible operating systems, servers, storage, tape devices, switches and third-party software, as well as partner certified applications for Brocade or Brocade's OEM-branded HBAs, as well as Emulex and QLogic HBAs, with native and OEM part number cross references.

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End of Availability for Brocade Egde M3000 Storage Router

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End of Availability of select parts for Brocade UltraNet™ Storage Director - eXtended (USD-X) and Brocade Edge M3000 was announced September 15, 2008

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End of Availability (EOA) Notice for Brocade Data Migration Manager (DMM) v1.x , v2.x

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End of Availability Notification for Brocade Partners

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End of Availability Notification for Brocade Enterprise Fabric Connectivity Manager (EFCM) and the M-Series Software Bundles

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End of Availability for Fabric Manager 2.x and 3.x was announced March 27, 2004

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End of Availability for Fabric Manager 4.0, 4.1, 4.1.1 and 4.2 was announced June 24, 2005

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End of Availability for Fabric Manager 4.4 was announced June 20, 2006

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End of Availability for Fabric Manager 5.X was announced February 3, 2009

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End of Availability for Fabric OS v2.4 was announced August 30, 2002

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End of Availability for Fabric OS v2.6.0x v3.0.2x and v4.0.2x was announced February 17, 2004 - updated March 04, 2004

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Updated March 31, 2005

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End of Availability for Fabric OS v2.6.2 was announced December 19, 2007

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End of Availability for Fabric OS v3.0.0x and v4.0.0x was announced August 29, 2003

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End of Availability for Fabric OS v3.1x, v4.4x was announced May 31, 2006

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End of Availability for Fabric OS v3.X was announced November 1, 2007

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End of Availability for FAL API 3.2.2, 3.0.2, 3.2.0 and 3.2.1 was announced July 21, 2005 -Updated January 20, 2006. Note: Brocade encourages customers to migrate to SMI-Agent available from Brocade Communications. Storage Management Initiative (SMI) is a Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) standard for storage interface.

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End of Availability for File Lifecycle Manager (FLM) v2.0 and 2.1 was announced February 19, 2008

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End of Support Notification

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End of Availability Notice for StorageX v4.0, v5.0, v5.5

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End of Availability for StorageX v5.6

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End of Availability for Brocade UNCUpdate was announced June 27, 2008

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End of Availability for all releases of XPATH OS v7.4x and SAS v2.2x (and earlier) was announced June 17, 2008, End of Availability for XPath OS v7.3.x was announced May 31, 2006

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The Brocade 1860 Fabric Adapter is a new class of adapter that combines a Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter (HBA), a Converged Network Adapter (CNA), and a Network Interface Card (NIC) into a single product that can meet all server connectivity needs in next-generation, cloud-enabled data centers, while delivering unmatched performance, application-aware services, unified management, and reduced cost and complexity.

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Starting with the Brocade® Multi-Service IronWare® OS 5.0 release for the Brocade NetIron® Series, a new key-based license activation mechanism will be available to enable advanced features and software functionality upgrades to complement the EEPROM-based licensing mechanism currently in place.

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This document provides a catalog of antenna parts and accessories to complete a Brocade Mobility environment. This guide specifically addresses the antennas used for 2.4 GHz, 5.2 GHz and dual band antenna implementations for Brocade Mobility Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs).

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This document summarizes equipment known to be compatible with the Brocade® product family. Products named in the compatibility tables reflect equipment tested at Brocade or tested externally.

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This document is a detailed comparison of the product specifications for the Brocade Mobility Solution.

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Brocade Server Adapters Cross Reference Matrix

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This Support Matrix or Cross Reference may include tested compatible operating systems, servers, storage, tape devices, switches and third-party software, as well as partner certified applications for Brocade or Brocade's OEM-branded HBAs, as well as Emulex and QLogic HBAs, with native and OEM part number cross references.

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This Support Matrix or Cross Reference may include tested compatible operating systems, servers, storage, tape devices, switches and third-party software, as well as partner certified applications for Brocade or Brocade's OEM-branded HBAs, as well as Emulex and QLogic HBAs, with native and OEM part number cross references.

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This Support Matrix or Cross Reference may include tested compatible operating systems, servers, storage, tape devices, switches and third-party software, as well as partner certified applications for Brocade or Brocade's OEM-branded HBAs, as well as Emulex and QLogic HBAs, with native and OEM part number cross references.

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This ESG Lab Validation report documents hands-on testing of the EMC VSPEX Proven Infrastructure with Brocade networking for supporting 100 virtual machines (VMs). The report is focused on ease of use, performance, and high-availability networking.

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This ESG Lab Validation report documents hands-on testing of an EMC VSPEX Proven Infrastructure with Brocade networking for supporting 500 virtual desktops.

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Quick Reference Guide to Hitachi Data Systems Brocade product portfolio

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7500 SAN Router RoHS Compatibility

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Most institutions of higher education have investments in existing 802.11a/b/g devices and are being overwhelmed by the increased use of mobile devices and applications. Consider the following four tips to maximize benefiting from next-generation wireless technology.

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Brocade’s ServerIron ADX with Application Resource Broker (ARB) automates on-demand resource provisioning with visibility into application traffic and load level. To demonstrate the on-demand computing services provided by ARB, Brocade, SAP, and VMware have jointly defined a virtualized application reference architecture for the SAP BusinessObjects BI platform that closely models the customer deployment environment.

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Brocade, Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, and Mitel, come together to deliver the benefits of unified communications

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Brocade and Crossbeam offer a cost-efficient network security solution that consolidates data centers, enabling scalability while meeting growing performance demands.

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The flexibility and simplified high availability of Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 come from innovations to the core Exchange Server 2010 platform, enhancing performance, scalability, and reliability, while reducing TCO.

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Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) adoption has resulted in the increased service-enabling of IT systems. Now, Brocade® and Oracle offer a complete solution for the rapid deployment of business applications on an SOA foundation. Brocade® ServerIron® ADX has been validated with Oracle Fusion Middleware (FMW) SOA Suite 11g to deliver scalability and resiliancy, ensuring the highest availability of business application services.

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The Brocade ServerIron and Blue Coat PROXYSG Advantage

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Ekahau and Brocade help improve hospital workflow, staff productivity, and safety by enabling real-time tracking and managing of assets, staff, and visitors.

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Brocade and Trend Micro enable high-performance, improved data protection, and simplified management with a virtualized networking infrastructure and deep security solution.

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IBM® and Brocade® have strengthened their long-standing relationship to provide expanded network technology choices with the new IBM b-type Ethernet switches and IP routers to provide an integrated, end-to-end scalable and low latency framework.

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As a trusted Data Center infrastructure partner, Brocade® brings experience to organizations relying on Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) for the management of their systems infrastructure. With Brocade Network Advisor, Brocade delivers a unified network management solution across Data, Storage, and Converged Networks, as well as seamless integration with Microsoft SCOM.

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As a trusted data center infrastructure partner, Brocade brings experience to organizations relying on VMware vCenter for the management of their systems infrastructure. With Brocade Network Advisor, Brocade delivers a unified network management solution across data, storage, and converged networks, as well as seamless integration with VMware vCenter.

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Scalable, Carrier-Grade Solutions from Brocade and Blue Coat Integrating Blue Coat CacheFlow with Brocade ADX solutions gives service providers scalable, redundant, carrier-grade architecture that helps them save significantly on bandwidth and backhaul traffic.

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Lync Server Solution Brief featuring Brocade L2/3 and L4/7 solutions validation.

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Brocade VCS Fabric Technology, the Plug-n-Play Cloud Computing Network for Isilon Scale-out NAS

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The combination of Brocade ServerIron Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) and Nominum Caching/Authoritative Name Servers (CNS/ANS) provides the solution of choice for highly resilient and scalable DNS service infrastructures used by the largest service providers.

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Brocade and Check Point deliver a cost-effective, scalable networking and security solution with application optimization, unmatched simplicity, and industry-leading performance.

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Deploying Brocade 8 Gbps with VMware Virtual Infrastructure

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Describes best practices for configuring a Brocade network infrastructure with Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2, details the role of network layers in a data center, and explains why a solid network foundation is critical for a successful deployment.

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Today, personal computing is transforming to serve a user-centric world. This new world order requires information to be available ubiquitously, to be accessed from anywhere at anytime. An Information Technology (IT) infrastructure that can support user-centric computing requires speed, reliability, security, and native support for an array of popular mobile devices. A common look and feel across all these devices is vital for user productivity.

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Brocade® ServerIron® ADX delivers EMC RSA Key Manager scalability and resiliancy, ensuring high availability of key management services for data encryption applications.

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Hitachi Data Systems and Brocade provide scalable, high-performance, and cost-effective disaster recovery solutions that leverage best-in-class remote replication software and SAN extension networking infrastructure to overcome planned and unplanned outages.

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As strategic partners, Brocade and Microsoft have worked together to deliver an industry-leading UC solution that leverages the power of software and the performance of an all-IP infrastructure. With proven interoperability, Brocade was assured a seamless transition for both users and IT administrators.

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Brocade ServerIron switches deployed in front of Oracle Application Servers, increase application uptime, maximize server farm utilization, and shield the servers and applications from malicious attacks.

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Brocade ServerIron switches, when deployed into an Oracle WebLogic application environment, increase uptime, maximize utilization, and defeat security threats by being completely transparent to the applications and servers.

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The Brocade Management Pack for Microsoft System Center monitors the health and performance of data center SAN infrastructure to help IT manage virtual server workload.

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This document provides a reference architecture to enable fast, secure, and scalable virtual desktop deployments with VMware® View 4.6™, Brocade® cloud-optimized networking, and Trend Micro™ Deep Security software.

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The ServerIron EM Plug-in significantly reduces the cost and complexity of managing applications that rely on ServerIron ADX and Oracle technologies

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Microsoft and Brocade have partnered to develop a solution that optimizes the deployment of Microsoft Exchange 2010. This solution guide outlines the significant architectural changes introduced in Exchange 2010 and explains how to use Brocade ServerIron ADX to take full advantage of these changes.

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Using the intelligent PoE/PoE+ capabilities of the Brocade FastIron family can ensure last-minute power to critical devices while saving operating costs.

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Deploying Brocade ServerIron ADX to Increase Availability, Scalability, and Security of Microsoft Lync Server 2010 Infrastructure

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Provides reference architecture and procedures for deployment of NAT64 and DNS64 in support of IPv6-only client environments

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Provides best-practice guidance for mission-critical enterprise application delivery, showing how to improve network access performance for WAN deployments of Microsoft SharePoint 2010 using Brocade ServerIron and Blue Coat ProxySG.

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This reference architecture guide describes a solution using Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Select for Citrix XenDesktop with VMware vSphere 5.0. This solution scales in a repeatable, building block design to deploy desktops using Citrix XenDesktop and Citrix Provisioning Services. The solution includes Brocade fabric technology for networking.

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This reference architecture guide describes deploying Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Select for VMware vSphere using VMware View in a solution that scales from hundreds to thousands of desktops. This solution includes Brocade fabric technologies for networking.

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Describes procedures for replacing a Brocade Mi10K Director at the core of a Brocade M-EOS fabric with a Brocade DCX Backbone in Interopmode 2 or 3.

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Brocade ServerIron switches, when deployed in front of the Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007, increase application uptime, maximize server farm utilization, and shield the servers and applications from malicious attacks.

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Describes procedures for migrating server and storage devices from a Brocade M-EOS fabric in McDATA Fabric or Open mode to a Brocade FOS fabric using the Brocade DCX or DCX-4S.

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Describes a joint Brocade-Occam Networks solution for lowering costs in provider networks while providing turn-key services to generate new revenue opportunities with a Brocade multiplay solution.

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Provides best practices for deploying Brocade ServerIron Application Delivery Controllers in Transparent Cache Switching mode with Blue Coat ProxySG Web Gateways. The infrastructure employs features such as client IP spoofing by ProxySG Gateways, Policy-Based Routing, and cache switching by Brocade ServerIrons to handle the large volume of traffic seen in service provider environments.

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Brocade ServerIron switches, when deployed in front of the Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007, increase application uptime, maximize server farm utilization, and shield the servers and applications from malicious attacks.

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Brocade helps global Internet exchange point AMS-IX deliver superior performance and uptime to 500-plus service providers while providing a migration path to 100 GbE.

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Beiersdorf boosts server performance with Brocade SAN and server connectivity solutions while simplifying data center management with Brocade DCFM

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Visual effects company leverages Brocade solutions to build a highly scalable networking infrastructure that provides increased performance capacity while simplifying management

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C.R. England increases network bandwidth and eliminates single points of failure by standardizing on Brocade for a scalable, high-performance network infrastructure.

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City of Lakewood Delivers Services Seamlessly with Unified Communications from Brocade and ShoreTel

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Community Hospital of Long Beach is saving $1 million annually while enabling flexible, mobile patient care thanks to its upgraded networking infrastructure.

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Government Employee’s Health Association (GEHA) redesigns network with Brocade Ethernet Fabric technology, simplifying management and increasing network scalability and flexibility.

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Software developer creates healthcare applications more quickly and efficiently while keeping networking operations and capital expenses at a minimum

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A leading service provider with one of the world's largest Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) achieves global network growth while delivering quality services and protecting existing investments

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i3D.net leverages Brocade technology to deliver an exceptional online gaming experience over high-capacity, low-latency, cloud-based networks.

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Isle of Wight College delivers innovative services to students and staff with a reliable, secure, and high-performance campus-wide wireless network from Brocade.

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The medical clinic associated with the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany, took a multi-phase approach to upgrading its network. The clinic has invested more than $1.5 million in the network and today has a high-speed Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) backbone that supports cur-rent doctor, staff, and patient use—as well as future network growth.

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Brocade and EMC successfully develop and deploy data migration and disaster avoidance strategies for a large-scale data center that maintains continuous system availability during migration.

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Brocade switches enable Lüneburg Municipal Medical Centre to support high-performance, next-generation applications while reducing complexity and maintenance costs.

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When it came time to choose a networking infrastructure solution, MaximumASP recognized that it needed a solution that could support its demanding business model. Given those requirements, MaximumASP turned to Brocade.

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With its Microsoft Virtualization solution, Brocade saved U.S. $1.96 million in hardware costs, improved server utilization by 75 percent, and reduced storage costs by 30 percent and electrical costs by 80 percent. IT staffers are managing the company’s infrastructure 20 percent more efficiently by using Microsoft System Center data center solutions.

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Nikhef upgrades network by deploying Brocade MLX Series routers and Brocade FCX Series switches, improving security, bandwidth, and scalability.

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Leading video game developer, Naughty Dog, is using Brocade® networking solutions to provide a cost-effective, high-performance and scalable solution to expedite its video game rendering and modeling needs

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From access to enterprise applications such as e-mail, to applications that enable crews to track airplanes and maintenance teams to inventory and manage spare parts, Neos Airlines employees need to be as mobile as the planes they are operating

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Leading cloud managed service provider improves network performance and helps clients save money with Brocade VCS Fabric technology.

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Leading cloud services provider meets growing demand for increased network performance and capacity with Brocade Ethernet fabrics.

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Cloud-based multichannel transaction service company leverages Brocade solutions to build a dynamic service delivery infrastructure to allow multichannel transactions in real time while reducing operational complexity

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As the existing network aged out, network administrators recognized that it was time to upgrade the infrastructure to support current and more innovative technologies that would move the hos-pital forward on its mission of excellence. Sint Lucas Andreas Ziekenhuis sought a faster, high-performance networking partner that could deliver a reliable, scalable solution—with compre-hensive and user-friendly management tools. The hospital found that partner with Brocade.

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With a Brocade network in place, SIPCOM can offer high-capacity, scalable hosted UC services to its growing user base.

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Metro service provider SpringNet upgrades its Brocade network infrastructure to boost capacity, improve services delivery, and generate new revenue streams

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Private school adds robust, high-performance Brocade IP network to support bandwidth-intensive multimedia educational applications, Voice over IP, and wireless network

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Brocade enables leading solar provider to simplify its network infrastructure, improve uptime, reduce power consumption, and better utilize IT staff.

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Leading research institution relies on Brocade to meet increased bandwidth demand from multimedia, research, and mobile applications.

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The University of Westminster delivers next-generation educational applications and the latest communication services with its 10 GbE Brocade network.

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Veracity Networks leverages a highly scalable and reliable network from Brocade to increase its high-value commercial customer base while meeting voice, video, and data service demands of residential customers

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West Carolina Tel expands services and increases revenue by delivering premium IPTV service and improves with Brocade and Microsoft solutions.

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SAN Health Support Matrix

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Service providers are looking for new ways to produce incremental revenue by providing Carrier-Grade Ethernet services, business VPNs, and Internet connectivity. Using a Layer 2 architecture at the very edge of a metro network provides a simple, low-cost solution. One such protocol that offers a solution is MRP. This document explains the operation and benefits of MRP

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According to analysts, the key challenges faced by customers in virtualized data centers are application performance under load and manageability.

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According to analysts, the key challenges faced by customers in virtualized data centers are application performance under load and manageability. This technical brief discusses how Brocade CNAs along with Brocade Network Advisor provide unique benefits in virtualized IT environments. Brocade CNAs address scalability and performance for virtualized workloads with Virtual Machine Optimized Ports (VMOPs).

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The guiding principles driving a new architecture for the data center include consolidation, virtualization, service-level resource allocation, and policy-based data management. These principles simplify how business exploits its data for competitive advantage in a cost-effective manner—as detailed in this paper.

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The Oracle Exadata Storage Server and the Sun Oracle Database Machine, working in conjunction with Oracle’s StorageTek tape library products, provide fast backup, restore and recovery.

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Describes a recommended setup and configuration for Fabric-Based Boot LUN Discovery in a Brocade storage network using Brocade Host Bus Adapters (HBAs).

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To keep pace with dynamic business requirements, organizations are transitioning their data centers to private cloud architectures to enable them to consolidate, scale, simplify, and automate their IT resources to increase business agility while reducing capital and operational expenditures. To help address the new demands derived from server virtualization, the Brocade 1860 Fabric Adapter simplifies and optimizes I/O in virtualized environments.

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Adaptive Rate Limiting on the Brocade® 7800 Extension Switch and Brocade FX8-24 Extension Blade for the Brocade DCX® 8510 and DCX Backbones enables efficient and cost-effective sharing of WAN bandwidth for FCIP storage and non-storage applications. This paper details the operation and advantages of Brocade Adaptive Rate Limiting in shared WAN bandwidth environments.

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Today’s organizations strive to increase the efficiency of their resources, assets and people - anytime, anywhere. Use Brocade Mobility WLAN access points with Ekahau RTLS to track and manage assets, staff and visitors with Wi-Fi tags, VoWiFi phones, laptop computers, PDAs, Smartphones with sub room-, room-, floor- and building-level accuracy.

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Highlights a Brocade-EMC solution with EMC CLARiiON, EMC Atmos, Brocade Fibre Channel (FC) switches, Brocade FC HBAs, and Brocade IP networking switches as the ideal platform for Microsoft SharePoint applications running on a Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization framework.

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Discusses the integration of the Brocade DCX Backbone into existing Brocade Fabric OS SAN infrastructures.

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Details how for medium- to large-sized enterprise data centers, adoption of fabric-based encryption often proves to be a more affordable option than LTO-4 tape drive-based encryption based on Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).

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Next-generation networks require an overall architecture evolving to accommodate new technologies that support the growing numbers of users, applications, and services. IPv6 is designed to be more robust, dramatically increase the pool of global IP addresses, simplify network administration, resolve security and mobility issues, and improve Quality of Service (QoS).

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Designed for high-bandwidth wi-fi deployments, Brocade® Mobility Wireless LAN solutions provide highly scalable, reliable, and secure mobility in remote offices, small to large enterprises, campuses, and data centers.

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The pipelining and optimization technologies on the Brocade extension platforms improve throughput and mitigate the negative effects of latency when transporting storage traffic over distance. This paper details the operation and advantages of these technologies in extended RDR and tape applications.

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This document is intended for data center networking and server architects. It describes the technical architecture of Brocade® Virtual Cluster Switching (VCS™), also referred to as VCS technology in this document, and explains how the control, data, and management planes function, and how a VCS Ethernet fabric operates. It also provides a comparison of the VCS Ethernet Fabric with the emerging IEEE Transparent Interconnect of Lots of Links, or TRILL standard.

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This document examines ways to enable both personalized educational trends and the various technological trends that affect—or will soon affect—virtually every school.

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Managing large distributed WLANs within the difficult environment of healthcare poses unique challenges. Unlike wired networks, WLANs have to operate in a shared wireless medium that is constantly changing. This document examines how to maximize availability to critical wireless applications.

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Discusses joint implementation of Brocade ServerIron application delivery switches with IBM WebSphere SIP servers. It provides guidelines for installations and step-by-step instructions for configuring Brocade ServerIron switches for load balancing of SIP servers.

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This Solution Brief describes and illustrates scenarios that demonstrate how Brocade fabrics can be connected to remote data centers through Ciena optical networking systems.

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This document is one of a series examining the challenges, the opportunities, and the realities of how technological innovation is affecting the global education community

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FCIP Trunking is one of the advanced features of the Brocade extension platforms, enabling bandwidth aggregation and lossless failover for increased resiliency over IP WANs. This paper details the operation and advantages of this technology in extended storage applications.

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This document examines five questions that K-12 school districts can ask to determine if their infrastructure will support their school’s needs three to five years from now.

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The rapid adoption of server virtualization is changing the requirements for data center infrastructure capabilities and design. Virtualization concentrates business processes and data to a smaller group of physical resources, as a result, businesses need to ensure that the data generated in this virtual server environment is properly protected.

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Recently, there has been an increasing interest in deploying IPTV services among telecom operators who provide broadband access services to residential subscribers. This paper details the Brocade solution for delivering IPTV service in telco networks.

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This document is a guide to configuring Microsoft® Hyper-V using NPIV with a Brocade® Fibre Channel to PCIe Host Bus Adapter (HBA). It will help you understand what you need to consider before deploying this solution and how to implement and diagnose NPIV with Hyper-V. It is designed for Windows System Administrators and Storage Administrators. A basic understanding of how to use Windows, Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM), Fibre Channel (FC) storage, and zoning is assumed.

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HP StorageWorks Secure Key Manager with Brocade Encryption Solutions

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The IBM® System x® Private Cloud Offering provides solutions that are part of the Microsoft® Fast Track for Hyper-V program. This program has requirements for systems management, virtualized management, and fault tolerance through the use of the System Center management platform, clustering, and redundancy in the network and storage.

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Describes procedures for replacing a Brocade Mi10K Director at the core of a Brocade M-Enterprise (M-EOS) fabric with a Brocade DCX of DCX-4S in Interopmode 2 or 3 and moving the Brocade Mi10K to the edge.

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To realize the full value of an investment in the zEnterprise requires a transformation in the infrastructure supporting your new mainframe. This paper explores a thoughtfully planned and managed transition from a mixed ESCON and FICON infrastructure to a pure FICON infrastructure, enabling a smarter, centralized, cloud-optimized data center for the future.

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This white paper provides a blueprint for a virtualized datacenter architecture based on Microsoft® Hyper-V™ and an Ethernet fabric enabled by Brocade Virtual Cluster Switching™ technology. The solution reduces management complexity, provides more efficient use of network resources, and enables easier migration of virtual machines from one physical server to another.

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Brocade Network Advisor continues Brocade leadership in network management with a unified SAN/IP network management software platform. It integrates the SAN management capabilities of Brocade Data Center Fabric Manager (DCFM) and the IP network management capabilities of Brocade IronView Network Manager (INM)

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Details the Brocade NetApp key management solution for encrypting data-at-rest using the NetApp LKM Appliance with Brocade encryption devices

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Many services, such as mobile Internet and mobile TV, require high bandwidth, and current backhaul infrastructures are not optimized to handle this traffic. Advanced routers and switches from Brocade enable highly scalable designs for the eventual convergence of voice and data infrastructure that can deliver new multimedia services.

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An overview of Virtual Private LAN Service (VPLS) and Virtual Leased Line (VLL) and Brocade solutions for deploying them.

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By leveraging the Condor3 ASIC features in the Gen 5 Fibre Channel platforms, customers can save on both the OpEx and CapEx of maintaining SANs.

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This paper describes how Brocade's CloudPlex architecture enables large-scale deployment of virtual desktop infrastructure: tens of thousands of desktops on a global scale. It identifies the challenges in the data center, campus LAN and wide area networks that need to be considered and reviews how key elements of the CloudPlex architecture including fabrics, open systems and global reach, effectively meet these challenges.

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The Brocade DCX 8510 Backbone with Gen 5 Fibre Channel offers unique optical ICL connectivity, enabling massive fabric scalability while simplifying network topologies.

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Many services, such as mobile Internet and mobile TV, require high bandwidth, and current backhaul infrastructures are not optimized to handle this traffic. Advanced routers and switches from Brocade enable highly scalable designs for the eventual convergence of voice and data infrastructure that can deliver new multimedia services.

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Brocade encryption solutions with the Thales Encryption Manager for Storage combine to protect data stored on disk and tape. Thales and Brocade have qualified products to deliver a seamless solution for data-at-rest encryption.

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Brocade switches with Gen 5 Fibre Channel unleash the full potential of high-density server virtualization, cloud architectures, and next-generation storage, doubling the data throughput of 8 Gbps links, enabling organizations to fully leverage existing and new IT investments.

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Terms that define Ethernet ports, such as 10GBASE-SR, often have two meanings—one from the standard and one from the industry. This paper explains the industry nomenclature of the most common types of Ethernet ports.

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Describes scenarios that demonstrate how to leverage the Brocade DCX Backbone with other Brocade products to meet three challenges of virtual server environments: scalability, performance, and manageability.

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Describes and illustrates scenarios that demonstrate how the Brocade DCX Backbone platform can be added non-disruptively into the core of existing SANs and new data center fabrics.

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Virtual Fibre Channel for Hyper-V, a new technology available in Microsoft Windows Server 2012, allows direct access to Fibre Channel (FC) shared storage by multiple guest virtual machine (VM) partitions.

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Outlines VMware ESXi Server 4.0 support and deployment guidelines for Brocade Fibre Channel (FC) Host Bus Adapter (HBA) and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) Converged Network Adapter (CNA) drivers; also discusses several management paradigms for the VMware ESXi environment.

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Advanced routers and switches from Brocade enable highly scalable designs for the eventual convergence of voice and data infrastructure that can deliver new multimedia services.

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This document is one of a series examining the important considerations a school, a school district, or a college or university must take into account as they plan to deploy, extend, or enhance their e-learning capabilities.

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Addendum to the Brocade FastIron SuperX Family Data Sheet: additional RFC Support

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The Call Home event notification capability allows a user to configure DCFM to automatically send an e-mail or dial into a Brocade or OEM support center to report system problems.

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The data center network plays a critical role in carrying new demanding data traffic. Today, Brocade® networking solutions are delivering the industry-leading performance and scalability to keep applications flowing efficiently across virtual enterprises. Based on open standards and designed for heterogeneous environments, Brocade networking solutions work with all types of virtualization frameworks, helping organizations achieve a faster ROI from their virtualized environments.

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6520 WEEE Recycling Instructions

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Presents an overview of the 40 Gigabit and 100 Gigabit Ethernet standards (recently adopted by the IEEE), technologies, and applications in service provider, data center, and enterprise networks.

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This paper explores the architectural advantages of the Brocade 48000 and ways that IT organizations can leverage its performance capabilities, modular flexibility, and “five-nines” reliability.

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Describes the internal architecture of the Brocade DCX Backbone and explains how best to leverage its industry-leading performance and blade flexibility to meet business requirements.

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Brocade has made cloud-optimized networking a major part of its overall market strategy with the ServerIron ADX series of application delivery controllers. By accepted industry standards, this product set has traditionally offered excellent scalability and reliability. With the recent software release, the company's goal is to give cloud providers greater application control, customization, and scalability for the services they create.

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This paper delves into the experiences of 30 IT managers who relocated their data centers, analyzing the primary drivers, issues, strategies, and lessons learned.

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The results of a benchmarking study performed in Brocade test labs demonstrate that SQL Server can be deployed on VMware ESX Server 3.5 for Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) applications in very favorable server consolidation ratios to meet corporate IT business requirements.

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Data warehouse reference configurations by Oracle, Sun, and Brocade combine off-the-shelf industry standard components such as Oracle Database with Sun StorageTek arrays, Sun Fire servers, Sun SPARC Enterprise servers using Solaris™ 10 OS, and the Brocade data center product family.

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Brocade and SAP jointly present how modern application and network technologies could be combined to form productive SAP business application landscapes, which perform well and securely when used globally.

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Describes the robust system architecture, versatile feature set, and form factors of the Brocade BigIron RX Series, the industry's most powerful Layer 2-3 Ethernet switches.

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This paper describes the basics of Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) and how Brocade FCoE solutions provide greater choice in modern data centers.

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The Brocade NetIron MLX Series of routers is the industry’s most powerful suite of IPv4/IPv6/MPLS/Multi-VRF switching routers. Its robust system architecture, versatile feature set, and choice of form factors makes it capable of scaling from the edge to the core.

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Although both sFlow and NetFlow enjoy widespread industry adoption, sFlow is the better technology for traffic monitoring.

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SNA over IP solutions have evolved over the last decade and a half to provide a variety of solution options. The optimal solution depends upon the application environment and the evolution of legacy equipment in those environments.

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Brocade solutions provide the flexibility, reliability, and ease of use for lower-cost Internet Small Computer Systems Interface (iSCSI) Storage Area Networks (SANs). This whitepaper provides an overview of an iSCSI SAN, the challenges with iSCSI SANs, and the Brocade solutions that address those challenges.

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In order to truly align the enterprise infrastructure strategy with business requirements, organizations must be free to choose the solutions that best meet their unique needs and based upon open standards, not proprietary, closed systems.

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Brocade Network Subscription is a new acquisition model aimed at today’s environment of economic and technological uncertainty.

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This paper describes how Brocade Ethernet, storage, and converged networking solutions help forward-thinking organizations build strategic data centers that continue to leverage existing network infrastructure.

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This paper describes the key factors that organizations need to consider in order to build the right backup and recovery infrastructure for their needs.

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The Brocade DCX Backbone provides industry-leading performance, scalability, and investment protection, unleashing the full capabilities of IBM System z, especially IBM zEnterprise 196 (z196) solutions

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The Brocade DCX Backbone provides industry-leading performance, scalability, and investment protection, unleashing the full capabilities of IBM System z, especially IBM zEnterprise 196 (z196) solutions.

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NetApp unified storage can provide enhanced storage performance, storage efficiency, and storage manageability for VDI deployments on Microsoft® Windows®Server 2008 R2 SP1 Hyper-V™.

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While 802.11n wireless networks let enterprises create a seamless working environment by combining the mobility of wireless with the performance of wired networks, the best ways for deploying 802.11n—while minimizing acquisition and operational costs—may still be unclear.

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Brocade’s ServerIron ADX with Application Resource Broker (ARB) automates on-demand resource provisioning with visibility into application traffic and load level. To demonstrate the on-demand computing services provided by ARB, Brocade, SAP, and VMware have jointly defined a virtualized application reference architecture for the SAP BusinessObjects BI platform that closely models the customer deployment environment.

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This white paper describes the architecture of an enterprise-scale SharePoint collaboration farm with file share content and rich search capabilities provided by Microsoft FAST Search 2010 om EMC Symmetrix VMAX storage with EMC FAST VP enabled. Data protection is provided by EMC Replication Manager with replication and recoverability of the SharePoint content, the file share, and the FAST Search index.

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Following on the success of Wireless LANs (WLANs) in higher education, an increasing number of K-12 schools are also integrating wireless and mobile technologies to better meet instructional demands and provide more users with online resources.

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The transition from the IPv4 protocol to the IPv6 protocol represents a significant challenge to service providers, hosting services, and other companies. They must find ways to accommodate end users and Customer-Premises Equipment (CPE) devices that may be using either protocol. This white paper examines four transition technologies. Brocade is offering its customers a transition path to the new wave of Internet technologies while continuing to utilize customers’ existing infrastructure.

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The Brocade® Mobility product family combines Wireless LAN (WLAN) access point and controller-based security services with wireless intrusion prevention to offer a unified suite of security capabilities, which not only deliver a more robust threat defense but also lower the total cost of implementing and maintaining a secure wireless network.

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This paper explains why FICON technology is a reliable, cost-effective choice for IT organizations seeking to bring disaster recovery infrastructure in-house

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This paper explains the various technologies, products, and methodologies used in data migration projects, as well as the value of Brocade Global Services expertise.

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Desktop virtualization solutions enable businesses to transform Windows desktops, apps and data into cloud-like services, accessible on any device, anywhere. Businesses can increase profitability, drive down costs, reduce risk and improve worker productivity by delivering desktops as a managed service. Hitachi Unified Compute Platform with Brocade fabrics create a more flexible and secure business VDI infrastructure, enabling businesses to quickly respond to changing business needs.

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As Microsoft’s largest OEM Partner, HP offers a complete portfolio of complementary technology and services to help customers get the most out of their MOSS solutions.

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Discussion of Brocade’s new acquisition option for IT buyers seeking to add network capacity through a monthly, fee-based service option.

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The Brocade MLXe multiservice IP/MPLS routers, part of the Brocade One network architecture, reflect the Brocade imperative of unmatched simplicity, optimized applications, non-stop networking, and investment protection in delivering customer solutions.

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The Provider Backbone Bridges standard, IEEE 802.1ah, was developed to address the limitations of the Provider Bridges standard, IEEE 802.1ad, and to add additional capabilities sought by service providers.

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Enabling automatic migration of port profiles under Microsoft Hyper-V with Brocade Virtual Cluster Switching technology

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This paper explores the various approaches Brocade is taking toward heterogeneous fabric connectivity following its acquisition of McDATA.

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A professional security analysis by Digital Resources Group (DRG) demonstrating how Brocade encryption solutions help companies secure cardholder data and comply with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS).

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Describes Zoning, a security feature in SAN fabrics, and Zoning best practices to easily secure host and storage in a Brocade fabric

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Setting a New Standard for Network Efficiency with VCS Fabric Multilayer, Multipathing Capabilities.

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This paper describes how Brocade Adaptive Networking Services help simplify fabric management by dynamically adjusting bandwidth and fabric resources to meet application service levels.

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Highlights the value of highly available and scalable application switching and details the specialized capabilities required in the application switches for deployment in a SIP service infrastructure for maximum benefit.

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To maximize the benefits of network connectivity in a virtualized server environment, Brocade works seamlessly with Microsoft Hyper-V and Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager (MSCVMM) to deliver high performance, high availability, security, energy efficiency, and streamlined management end to end.

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Technological advances and trends, including improvements in WLAN performance and security, are encouraging IT administrators to consider wireless networks as a core part of every enterprise network. By simplifying wired and wireless deployment through integrated, end-to-end solutions, companies can significantly increase productivity and save costs to achieve unified and robust communications.

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The Effortless Network, enabled by HyperEdge Architecture, seamlessly integrates new innovations with legacy technologies, improving network flexibility and reducing management complexity, application deployment time, and operational costs.

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The whitepaper documents the landscape changes that will shape the ADC in the near future, including assessing the viability and value preposition of solutions that support open tool capabilities to ensure consistent and predictable application service outcomes.

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Compared with Fibre Channel (FC), which is by nature a lossless SAN protocol, Traditional Ethernet-based iSCSI has intrinsic faults that drop packets or cause catastrophic data loss. Unlike FC, Ethernet is a "best effort" delivery medium, depending on higher-layer protocols, such as TCP, error detection and recovery.

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New features in Brocade Fabric OS 7.0 help increase SAN security in enterprise environments to better protect sensitive data.

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This paper shows how the VMware Infrastructure Platform can be deployed in a Fibre Channel-based shared storage environment and how support for NPIV enables critical fabric services to be extended to Virtual Machines in the data center.

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The ability to transport Ethernet over different transport technologies raises the exciting proposition of Ethernet services not only in campus or metro networks but also at a global level.

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This paper explores both the technical and business reasons for implementing a switched FICON architecture instead of a direct-attached storage FICON architecture.

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This paper describes how institutions of higher learning can deploy wireless LANs to increase their connectivity options and securely deliver a wide range of applications and services to mobile users throughout their campus networks.