Brainshark Launches SlideShark Broadcasting — Letting Mobile Presenters Invite Remote Meeting Attendees to View Their Live Presentations Over the Web

SlideShark App Users Can Now Also Draw on and Annotate Slides While Presenting From Their iPad or iPhone, and Get In-Depth Data on Who Tuned in to See Their Broadcast Presentations

WALTHAM, Mass., March 26, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — Brainshark, Inc., the leading sales enablement platform provider, today announced the launch of “SlideShark Broadcasting” – making presentations delivered from the iPad and iPhone accessible in real time to remote or in-person meeting attendees on their device of choice. Now, users of SlideShark – the award-winning app for viewing, presenting and sharing PowerPoints on iOS devices – can invite others to view their presentation as it’s being delivered live. Recipients, whether across the table or across the globe, can see the presentation on any Internet-connected computer, tablet or smartphone – viewing slides as they’re advanced, animations as they unfold, drawings and annotations as made by the presenter, and more.

Attendees can easily view live broadcasts of presentations via their Web browser – no downloads required. Presenters, meanwhile, maintain control over what content is delivered, when it’s delivered and the overall cadence of the meeting. At the meeting’s conclusion, they also receive detailed reports on audience viewing activity and attendance.

“So many of us have been in this situation: We’re about to give a presentation and learn that some people can’t attend in-person,” said Brainshark CEO Joe Gustafson. “SlideShark eliminates those barriers to information delivery – now providing a total meeting solution for mobile presenters. They have the unique ability to show and project PowerPoint decks with full fidelity using their iOS devices, and now can make it easy for everyone – especially those who aren’t in the room – to follow along. Broadcasting is another way we strive to make SlideShark a presenter’s best friend, and we’re excited about the benefits this brings to business users.”

Introduced a year-and-a-half ago, SlideShark has been downloaded more than 1.4 million times and is used by individuals and businesses in more than 140 countries. The app gives users the unprecedented ability to view and present PowerPoints on the iPad and iPhone with fonts, animations, graphics, videos and hyperlinks intact – while also serving as a business-class platform to distribute, track and manage content in the cloud.

“Our sales team is constantly on the road – with mobile reps relying on SlideShark to present to prospects and clients from their iPads,” said Mehgan Recker, senior manager for digital innovation and development at Stagnito Media, a publisher of leading magazines for food, gourmet and convenience store retailers, and provider of integrated marketing services. “Now, when reps learn someone can’t attend a meeting, they won’t have to scramble to email out the deck – hoping the recipient will follow along correctly. SlideShark Broadcasting lets our sales reps keep everyone in the loop, while enabling them to maintain control over their presentation delivery. It’s very intuitive to use – for presenters as well as attendees – and makes the app even more useful to us.”

Part of the newly released SlideShark version 3.0, SlideShark Broadcasting marries SlideShark’s ability to show PowerPoints properly on iOS devices – as well as its powerful features for mobile presenters – with several key capabilities in traditional desktop Web conferencing solutions as well. SlideShark Broadcasting is truly unique in enabling iOS users to present PowerPoint decks intact and broadcast them over the Web, while supporting animations too.

Now, with the launch of SlideShark Broadcasting, users who are presenting via SlideShark on their iPad, iPhone or iPod touch can:

• Tap within the app to begin broadcasting their live presentations. Presenters each have a unique URL with their username that attendees use to join the broadcast.
• Invite attendees by email from within the app – either before the presentation starts or even during it – to simply click the link to join the broadcast. Presenters can also add additional information, such as a welcome message and conference call number, which will be visible to attendees.
• Prompt attendees to enter a unique security code, if desired, in order to ensure privacy for each broadcast session.
• Receive visual alerts when someone enters/exits a broadcast.
• Get an in-depth report on who attended the broadcast and for how long.
• Access additional detailed reports on the broadcast meeting itself – including how long it lasted, which presentations and slides were shown, how much time was spent on each slide and more.

Along with the launch of SlideShark Broadcasting, Brainshark is also announcing SlideShark Pro, a new offering that includes the broadcasting capabilities and provides an additional 1GB of storage for the user. SlideShark Pro account holders are able to invite up to 10 attendees to view each presentation they broadcast. Users of SlideShark Team Edition, the multi-user business version of SlideShark, can invite up to 25 attendees per broadcast. Free SlideShark users, as well as individuals with SlideShark Plus accounts, can try out the capability through May 31 at no cost – inviting up to three attendees to view each broadcast.

Additional new features available to all users as part of SlideShark 3.0 include the ability for presenters to:

• Draw on slides, using SlideShark’s new annotation capabilities. Presenters can draw attention to elements with a highlighter or pen – choosing from six different colors and three thicknesses. They can erase sections, as well as the entire drawing, and save their annotations for reference and/or future use. Annotations are also visible in real time during a broadcast.
• Take advantage of SlideShark’s laser pointer feature, when using the iPhone or iPod touch as a remote control to advance presentations delivered from the iPad.

“Sales enablement is a strategic priority for many organizations today, as they look at how to best equip sales teams to drive bottom line results,” said Edge Coble, research analyst within the sales enablement strategies practice at SiriusDecisions, a leading analyst firm focused on sales and marketing effectiveness. “Because sales reps are increasingly mobile and time-constrained, solutions that enhance productivity on the road are critical. In this regard, products such as SlideShark – that enable sales professionals to deliver powerful presentations from their mobile device at hand, loop in colleagues and prospects in remote locations, and get actionable data on presentation effectiveness – can help companies drive their business forward.”

To view a Brainshark presentation with more details on SlideShark Broadcasting, please see https://www.brainshark.com/brainsharkinc/broadcasting. More details are also available at www.slideshark.com.

About Brainshark, Inc.

Brainshark provides the leading cloud-based platform for sales enablement, helping companies more effectively generate demand, prepare and train employees, engage with key audiences and advance business opportunities. Brainshark’s easy-to-use solutions enable static documents to be transformed into dynamic, mobile-ready content that can be accessed quickly and viewed as on-demand video presentations or presented live – anytime, anywhere. Companies can also measure the effectiveness of their communications in ways never thought possible and use these insights to take action. Thousands of companies – including half of the Fortune 100 – and millions of individuals rely on Brainshark to increase the impact and reduce the cost of their sales, marketing, training and HR communications. Learn more at www.brainshark.com.

Level 3 Launches High-Capacity Metropolitan Networks in Buenos Aires and Bogota

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, March 26, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — Level 3 Communications, Inc. (LVLT) today announced it is responding to customer demand for more capacity and expanding its end-to-end service capabilities by launching new high-speed metropolitan networks in Buenos Aires, Argentina and Bogota, Colombia. These advanced, high capacity, high-bandwidth networks greatly enhance services there. Level 3 has existing metropolitan high-speed networks in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

“One of the main challenges data communications providers face is how to develop an infrastructure that can manage the data traffic explosion resulting from the complex system of integrated services and applications that companies have to cope with on a daily basis,” noted Gina Sanchez, Frost & Sullivan telecommunication services industry analyst for Latin America. “Level 3′s high-capacity metropolitan networks are addressing this challenge, optimizing customer connectivity and thus enhancing customer experience.”

The new networks offer Level 3′s customers in these markets a more robust backbone, delivering up to 40 gigabit-per-second (Gbps) links to end customers. Wholesale and enterprise customers also can build their own backbones and dedicated networks, and interconnect with Level 3′s and others’ data centers to build SAN (Storage Area Network), disaster recovery and cloud services solutions.

In both Bogota and Buenos Aires, the networks have multiple high velocity nodes throughout each metropolitan area, with a total capacity of 80x40Gbps and the potential of upgrading to 80x100Gbps. Data centers, carrier points of presence, and financial centers, among other high bandwidth locations, will have easy access to these high capacity networks.

“Level 3 is always working to meet all the needs of our customers, and by launching these metropolitan networks, we will be able to address our customers’ increasing demand for capacity in two very important markets in Latin America,” said Leonardo Barbero, Level 3′s senior vice president and chief marketing officer for Latin America. “The additional connectivity provided by the new networks enables significantly faster network speed and scalable capacity, giving an advantage to any customer doing business in either market.”

About Level 3 Communications
Level 3 Communications, Inc. (NYSE: LVLT) provides local, national and global communications services to enterprise, government and carrier customers. Level 3′s comprehensive portfolio of secure, managed solutions includes fiber and infrastructure solutions; IP-based voice and data communications; wide-area Ethernet services; video and content distribution; data center and cloud-based solutions. Level 3 serves customers in more than 450 markets in 55 countries over a global services platform anchored by owned fiber networks on three continents and connected by extensive undersea facilities. Level 3 services are provided by subsidiaries of Level 3 Communications, Inc. For more information, visit www.level3.com.

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Copies of the charters for each of the Audit, Compensation and Nominating and Governance committees of Level 3′s Board of Directors, its Corporate Governance Guidelines, Code of Ethics, press releases and analysts and investor conference presentations are all available through the Investor Relations web pages.

Please note that the information contained on any of Level 3′s web sites is not incorporated by reference in, or considered to be a part of, any document unless expressly incorporated by reference in that document.

Forward-Looking Statement
Some statements made in this press release are forward-looking in nature and are based on management’s current expectations or beliefs. These forward-looking statements are not a guarantee of performance and are subject to a number of uncertainties and other factors, many of which are outside Level 3′s control, which could cause actual events to differ materially from those expressed or implied by the statements. Important factors that could prevent Level 3 from achieving its stated goals include, but are not limited to, the company’s ability to: successfully integrate the Global Crossing acquisition or otherwise realize the anticipated benefits thereof; manage risks associated with continued uncertainty in the global economy; maintain and increase traffic on its network; develop and maintain effective business support systems; manage system and network failures or disruptions; avert the breach of its network and computer system security measures; develop new services that meet customer demands and generate acceptable margins; defend intellectual property and proprietary rights; manage the future expansion or adaptation of its network to remain competitive; manage continued or accelerated decreases in market pricing for communications services; obtain capacity for its network from other providers and interconnect its network with other networks on favorable terms; attract and retain qualified management and other personnel; successfully integrate future acquisitions; effectively manage political, legal, regulatory, foreign currency and other risks it is exposed to due to its substantial international operations; mitigate its exposure to contingent liabilities; and meet all of the terms and conditions of its debt obligations. Additional information concerning these and other important factors can be found within Level 3′s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Statements in this press release should be evaluated in light of these important factors. Level 3 is under no obligation to, and expressly disclaims any such obligation to, update or alter its forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise.

Network Instruments Extends Affordable 10 Gb Monitoring to the Network Edge

First Field-Scalable Appliance Provides Network Teams Affordable, Robust Retrospective Analysis for Remote Offices

MINNEAPOLIS, MN–(Marketwire – Mar 26, 2013) – Network Instruments, a worldwide leader in network and application performance monitoring, today announced the introduction of its new, smaller GigaStor Upgradeable 2U form factor. It is the first field-upgradeable retrospective analysis appliance designed to provide affordable, robust gigabit and 10 Gb analysis for enterprise network teams migrating to higher speeds at their network edge.

The new appliance also provides a cost-effective solution for midmarket companies needing high-speed performance validation in the datacenter core. It is a scalable monitoring investment that can be expanded from 2 TB – 16 TB in the field, saving time and providing greater monitoring flexibility in a single appliance.

“Datacenter consolidation and virtualization initiatives, along with bandwidth-intensive UC and video applications, are driving organizations to implement 10 Gb across their entire backbone,” said Jim Frey, managing research director of Enterprise Management Associates (EMA). “Unfortunately, network teams are often stuck with legacy gigabit-rated monitoring tools incapable of handling the increased traffic volume, or face unacceptably high costs for upgrading tooling to support 10 Gb. New configurations that allow IT teams to make that shift gradually and more cost effectively, such as the GigaStor Upgradeable line from Network Instruments, are both essential and long overdue.”

As the only performance management company developing its own software and hardware, the new appliance is purpose built to provide long-term, robust 10 Gb performance monitoring. Features ensuring its availability for monitoring heavy traffic loads include the Gen2 card, exclusively engineered by Network Instruments to maximize performance on critical links; plus hot-swappable drives, Lights Out Management (LOM), and redundant fans and power supplies. In addition, software functions that streamline the management of high-performance environments include real-time aggregated monitoring with core-to-edge network views, logical workflows for fast troubleshooting, in-depth application transaction details, and extensive gigabit and 10 Gb analysis and metrics to assess activity and utilization.

“We have continually been a performance monitoring innovator, providing the fastest, most flexible solutions for service delivery management within the world’s largest datacenters,” said Charles Thompson, director of product strategy for Network Instruments. “We’ve developed the first platform capable of monitoring saturated full-duplex 10 Gb links at line rate, without dropping a packet. And we’re the only company to offer field-scalable retrospective analysis appliances with a product robust enough to handle large datacenter demand — but small enough for deployment at the edge or within a medium-sized enterprise.”

About Network Instruments
Established in 1994, Network Instruments is an industry leader in application and network management. It provides products that optimize performance and speed problem resolution, helping ensure delivery of critical applications for businesses worldwide. Network Instruments delivers these benefits through a seamlessly integrated line of precision-engineered software and hardware systems for exact network monitoring and analysis. For more information, visit www.networkinstruments.com.

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Brightcove Announces General Availability of Zencoder Live Cloud Transcoding

Live Cloud Transcoding API removes barriers to multi-screen live streaming

BOSTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–

Brightcove (BCOV), a leading global provider of cloud content services, today announced the general availability of the Zencoder Live Cloud Transcoding service. Live Cloud Transcoding is an open API for live video encoding in the cloud, which allows content providers to instantly scale live encoding resources and produce adaptive bitrate streams without significant investments in on-premise hardware.

“Live Cloud Transcoding is changing how organizations approach live video, from startups to major broadcasters,” said Jon Dahl, vice president of encoding services at Brightcove. “By offering live transcoding as a simple, scalable API, we are able to change the economics of live events. This will help bring all sorts of new content online, and content providers of all types will benefit from drastically lower capital expenditures and operational requirements for live programming.”

The Bass Anglers Sportsman Society, or Bassmaster, is a fishing membership organization that boasts more than half a million members; the organization has been utilizing Zencoder Live Cloud Transcoding to support its tournament live stream efforts.

“The Bassmaster organization runs roughly 34 bass fishing tournaments in a single year, all across the country, and there is tremendous demand from fans to have the ability to watch weigh-ins live online,” said Jim Sexton, vice president of digital, B.A.S.S. “We have relied upon encoding hardware for live streaming, but the technology would not allow us to stream to iOS devices—including iPads and iPhones. We were thrilled to take advantage of the Zencoder Live Cloud Transcoding service in beta; it has empowered us to deliver high-quality live video content to all of our fans regardless of the mobile device they use, without having to worry about additional hardware investment. Zencoder Live Cloud Transcoding has undoubtedly helped us grow our mobile audience, a critical endeavor for any company.”

Content providers face a number of challenges when transcoding for live events. First, they need to buy, manage and configure expensive transcoding hardware. When an event is over, that gear sits idle until the next live event. Moreover, uplink bandwidth at the event site can be a bottleneck, limiting the ability to publish adaptive bitrate streams, or dramatically increasing the cost of an event to secure outbound bandwidth. The expense and operational difficulty inherent in scaling and operating these solutions is multiplied as the number of output streams and formats increase and as the number of simultaneous events increase.

The Live Cloud Transcoding API greatly reduces the complexity and upfront costs of live stream transcoding. Content providers have on-demand access to encoding resources, and pay on a metered basis only for the transcoding resources they use. With Live Cloud Transcoding, content providers can use a lightweight encoder on a laptop to send a single RTMP stream to the service, and create adaptive bitrate HLS and RTMP streams to provide viewers with a high-quality viewing experience on any device.

Smartcom:tv relied upon the Zencoder Live Cloud Transcoding service for live streaming of the annual event Finnmarksløpet–a popular dog sled race held in the most northern part of Norway that spans an entire week and is comprised of grueling challenges in the snow and cold that viewers were able to watch online at no cost.

“The flexibility provided by the Zencoder Live Cloud Transcoding service allowed Smartcom:tv to bring only one high-performing encoding unit to the streaming location, stream in the highest quality available through that single Internet connection and let the Zencoder service do all of the hard work,” said Tore Nergaard, managing director at Smartcom:tv. “We were able to stream six different video streams from a remote location without needing a broadband connection. At the same time, we greatly reduced our hardware investments for the encoding setup on location. Zencoder Live Cloud Transcoding was a game-changer for this event.”

Pricing & Availability

Zencoder Live Cloud Transcoding is now generally available worldwide. Live Cloud Transcoding is priced based on the duration of the input and output video streams, quality and volume–starting at just $10 per hour. Month-to-month plans with usage-based discounts and annual plans with greater volume discounts are available.

The service will accept input streams from leading software encoders such as Flash Media Live Encoder, XSplit, OBS and Wirecast, as well as popular commercially available hardware encoders such as Elemental. At launch, Live Cloud Transcoding will support RTMP and HLS outputs. RTMP delivery is supported using media servers such as Flash Media Server and Wowza, and RTMP servers on the Akamai, Edgecast and Limelight content delivery networks. Streams using the HLS protocol can be delivered using standard HTTP servers or CDNs.

For more information and to sign up for a free Zencoder account visit www.zencoder.com. Brightcove will also be showcasing the Zencoder Live Cloud Transcoding service at the 2013 NAB Show; visit booth #SU11014 for a live demo.

About Brightcove

Brightcove Inc. (BCOV), a leading global provider of cloud content services, offers a family of products used to publish and distribute the world’s professional digital media. The company’s products include Video Cloud, the market-leading online video platform and Zencoder, a leading cloud-based media processing service and HTML5 video player technology provider. Brightcove has more than 6,350 customers in over 60 countries that rely on Brightcove cloud content services to build and operate media experiences across PCs, smartphones, tablets and connected TVs. For more information, visit http://www.brightcove.com.

This press release may include forward-looking statements regarding anticipated objectives, growth and/or expected product and service developments or enhancements. Such forward-looking statements may be identified by the use of the following words (among others): “believes,” “expects,” “may,” “will,” “plan,” “should” or “anticipates,” or comparable words and their negatives. These forward-looking statements are not guarantees but are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from the expectations contained in these statements. For a discussion of such risks and uncertainties, see “Risk Factors” in the Company’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its most recent annual report on Form 10-K. Brightcove assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements contained in this press release in the event of changing circumstances or otherwise, and such statements are current only as of the date they are made.

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Brocade Advances Fibre Channel Innovation With New Fabric Vision Technology

Also Expands Gen 5 Fibre Channel Portfolio With Industry’s Highest-Density Fixed Port SAN Switch and Enhanced Management Software; Announces Plans for Gen 6 Fibre Channel Technology Supporting the Next-Generation Standard

SAN JOSE, CA–(Marketwire – Mar 25, 2013) – Brocade ( NASDAQ : BRCD ), the leader in fabric-based data center networking solutions, today announced Brocade® Fabric Vision™ technology, an advanced storage area networking (SAN) hardware and software solution that maximizes uptime, dramatically simplifies SAN deployment and management, and provides unprecedented levels of visibility and insight into the storage network. Brocade Fabric Vision technology is a collection of breakthrough features and tools that enhance the company’s purpose-built, data center-proven Gen 5 Fibre Channel portfolio to achieve industry-leading reliability, scalability and 16 Gbps performance.

Brocade today also announced the industry’s highest-density fixed-configuration SAN switch along with enhancements to its fabric management software. The new switch, the Brocade 6520 Switch, bolsters the industry’s most comprehensive portfolio of Gen 5 Fibre Channel modular, fixed port and embedded solutions, and further distances Brocade ahead of competitors with more than a year of broad customer deployment of products based on the 16 Gbps Fibre Channel standard.

Based on continued strong customer demand and market growth for Brocade Fibre Channel SAN products, coupled with its 17-year heritage as the Fibre Channel innovator, Brocade stated its commitment to develop new SAN solutions based on components that conform to the soon-to-be-ratified Gen 6 Fibre Channel industry standard. In addition, the company is working closely with its storage partners to lead efforts in the OpenStack community to ensure that ongoing customer investments in Fibre Channel SANs are protected as enterprises and service providers move to cloud orchestration frameworks, such as OpenStack, in their data centers.

“Our customers run their most critical applications and store their most important data on Brocade Fibre Channel infrastructure to support highly virtualized and emerging cloud-optimized data centers. They depend on Brocade to continue innovating and developing solutions that solve real-world problems today and that can adapt to evolving requirements into the future,” said Jason Nolet, vice president of the Data Center Networking Group at Brocade. “Today’s announcement underscores our investment and laser-focus on leading the Fibre Channel industry with innovative technology and solutions built upon standards-based networking and management.”

Simplified Management and Robust Network Analytics with Brocade Fabric Vision Technology
Brocade Fabric Vision technology is an advanced hardware and software solution that combines capabilities from Brocade hardware, the embedded operating system (Brocade Fabric OS®) and management software (Brocade Network Advisor). Leveraging innovative diagnostics, monitoring and management capabilities, Brocade Fabric Vision technology provides administrators with the ability to anticipate and preempt problems before they impact operations, accelerate application deployments and dramatically reduce operational costs — critical factors in today’s fast-paced, budget-constrained business climate.

Brocade Fabric Vision technology includes:

• Policy-based tools that simplify fabric-wide threshold configuration and monitoring
• Management tools that allow administrators to identify, monitor and analyze specific application data flows, without the need for expensive, disruptive, third-party tools
• Monitoring tools that detect network congestion and latency in the fabric, providing visualization of bottlenecks and identifying exactly which devices and hosts are impacted
• Customizable health and performance dashboard views, providing all critical information in one screen
• Cable and optic diagnostic features that simplify the deployment and support of large fabrics

Driving Innovation with Gen 6 Fibre Channel and OpenStack for Fibre Channel
Continuous innovation has been the hallmark of the Fibre Channel industry. Efforts are well underway by the International Committee for Information Technology Standards (INCITS) T11 Technical Committee, with technical leadership from Brocade, to finalize the standards for Gen 6 Fibre Channel (32 Gbps) by the end of 2013. Brocade has already initiated research and development for Gen 6 Fibre Channel technology to address the evolving storage networking needs of enterprise data centers.

Brocade is also working with the OpenStack Foundation to develop open source software that will simplify management of Fibre Channel fabrics in cloud architectures. Next month, Brocade and its OEM partners will be proposing the Fibre Channel SAN Zone Manager blueprint at the OpenStack Summit. Additionally, Brocade was involved in the Fibre Channel Volume Manager blueprint proposal that will be included in the new OpenStack Grizzly software, also scheduled for release next month.

Industry’s Highest-Density Fixed-Configuration Switch
Enterprise IT continues to face unprecedented data and application growth, increased infrastructure complexity and data center space constraints. In addition, IT managers are looking for ways to build SAN fabrics that can scale to meet business demands, while increasing reliability, simplifying management and reducing costs.

The new Brocade 6520 Switch addresses each of these issues with 96 Fibre Channel ports in a 2U form factor, delivering industry-leading port density and space utilization for data center consolidation projects. In addition to Gen 5 Fibre Channel advanced functionality, reliability and performance, the density of the Brocade 6520 means fewer inter-switch links, fewer cables and fewer switches to manage — resulting in more reliable fabrics and lower overall costs.

Pricing and Availability
The new Brocade 6520 Switch and new Brocade Network Advisor 12.0 are available now through Brocade OEM partners Fujitsu, HP and NetApp, as well as through Brocade channel partners. These new products will be offered later this year by other OEM partners, including Dell, EMC and HDS. For pricing information, please contact these Brocade partners.

Brocade Fabric Vision technology includes capabilities that are available now through Brocade OEM and channel partners. It also includes future enhancements and new capabilities that will be available through Brocade OEM and channel partners later in 2013 and beyond.

Customer, Analyst and Partner Quotes
“Because data is the life blood of our business, a highly reliable and agile network is essential for enabling Epsilon to manage more than 180 million loyalty members worldwide and deliver more than 42 billion permission-based emails annually. Brocade Gen 5 Fibre Channel fabrics and Fabric Vision technology provide a solid foundation across multiple data centers that allows us to meet ever-changing customer requirements. We rely on Brocade’s enhanced management suite to provide greater SAN insight and control, which supports our ability to drive the new hyper-speed of marketing by blending leading-edge marketing technology services with the deepest supply of marketing data.”
David Kegley, Director, Enterprise Storage Delivery, Epsilon

“Increasing infrastructure complexity continues to drive requirements for ongoing consolidation and simplification of IT resources. Storage Area Network (SAN) management software, such as Brocade Fabric Vision technology, can improve the administrator’s ability to better monitor, manage and operate their storage networks, which can allow more time for the administrator to provide value back to the business.”
Dan Iacono, Research Director, Storage Systems, IDC

“According to ESG’s 2013 IT Spending Survey, increasing use of server virtualization technology continues to be a top priority. These highly virtualized and dynamic environments require greater levels of reliability and performance due to the increased impact that system failures can have on both revenue and productivity. However, leveraging the integrated, advanced diagnostic and monitoring capabilities of Brocade Fabric Vision technology will enable organizations to retain control, simplify SAN management and improve availability for these mission-critical environments.”
Bob Laliberte, Senior Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group

“The Brocade 6520 SAN Switch rounds out Dell’s Fibre Channel ecosystem, helping to improve the resilience, agility, availability and performance of our leading-edge, end-to-end 16 Gbps solution from server to switch to storage. This high-density switch is a perfect complement to our recent Compellent Storage Center 6.3 update, providing additional levels of scalability for larger SAN deployments.”
Jeff Baher, Director of Product Marketing, Dell Enterprise Solution Group

“EMC’s vision to drive IT efficiencies and business flexibility through IT transformation is further supported by Brocade’s commitment to advanced Fibre Channel technology. With our EMC VMAX and EMC VNX storage platforms many of our customers rely on the robustness of EMC Connectrix storage networking solutions. And, with the ability to deliver high performance, Gen 5-configured Connectrix B-series systems solutions are a foundation point for our new EMC® Xtrem™ family of flash-optimized server and storage products, and XtremIO™ all-flash storage arrays.”
Parmeet Chaddha, Vice President Partner Solutions, EMC Corporation

“The Fujitsu ETERNUS DX S2 Disk Storage Family, now providing up to 16 Gbps host connectivity, when combined with Brocade Gen 5 Fibre Channel networking solutions, is a perfect match for our customers’ mission-critical, high-performance applications, such as large-scale server virtualization and SAN consolidation. Brocade’s leadership in fabric-based data center networking solutions, along with the company’s commitment to future innovation for Gen 6 Fibre Channel solutions, makes it our networking partner of choice.”
Marcus Schneider, Senior Director, Head of Product Development Group Storage, Fujitsu Technology Solutions

“Leveraging Brocade Gen 5 Fibre Channel technology with Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform and Hitachi Unified Compute Platform delivers best-in-class infrastructure solutions for virtualized and converged environments. Together, Hitachi Data Systems and Brocade are helping organizations achieve continual access to mission-critical applications, virtualizing business-critical environments faster and with confidence all while improving overall business agility.”
Roberto Basilio, Vice President, Infrastructure Platforms Product Management, Hitachi Data Systems

“Transitioning to virtualization or IT-as-a-Service stresses legacy storage architectures and outdated networks, often causing system downtime and limited application performance. Modern converged storage designs such as HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage, coupled with high-performance Gen 5 Fibre Channel technologies from Brocade, minimize workflow disruptions by accommodating today’s unpredictable workload demands, enabling organizations to drive innovation while delivering exceptional customer service.”
Tom Joyce, Vice President, Marketing, Strategy and Operations; Storage; HP

“Combining the Nimbus Gemini flash memory array and Brocade’s Gen 5 Fibre Channel technology allows customers to redefine the data center with industry-leading 16 Gbps performance and reliability. This combination delivers greater I/O throughput and lower latency to power the most demanding workloads and remove the storage bottleneck, while enabling customers to reduce operating costs and achieve greater utilization of their data center infrastructure.”
Tom Isakovich, CEO and Founder, Nimbus Data

Videos

• Jason Nolet, Vice President, Data Center and Enterprise Networking Group. Brocade: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGaX30PD9cw
  David Scott, Vice President, Storage, HP:
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crv3sv1fpDc

Photos

• Brocade 6520 Switch: http://www.flickr.com/photos/33437642@N02/8581628808/lightbox/
• Brocade Fabric Vision technology dashboard: http://www.flickr.com/photos/33437642@N02/8581628820/lightbox

About Brocade
Brocade ( NASDAQ : BRCD ) networking solutions help the world’s leading organizations transition smoothly to a world where applications and information reside anywhere. (www.brocade.com)

ADX, AnyIO, Brocade, Brocade Assurance, the B-wing symbol, DCX, Fabric OS, ICX, MLX, MyBrocade, OpenScript, SAN Health, VCS, VDX, and Vyatta are registered trademarks, and HyperEdge, NET Health, The Effortless Network, and The On-Demand Data Center are trademarks of Brocade Communications Systems, Inc., in the United States and/or in other countries. Other brands, products, or service names mentioned may be trademarks of their respective owners.

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