brocade san trends 2016

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FC SAN Vision, Trendsand FuturesLB-systems


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This presentation, with prepared remarks, includes forward-looking statements regarding Brocades financial replans, assumptions, strategy and business outlook, revenue, tax rate, cash, stock buybacks, OEM inventory, proas U.S. Federal spending and order flow, and IT spending, which are only predictions and involve risks and uncthat actual results may vary significantly. These and other risks are set forth in more detail in our Form 10 -K foended October 26, 2013 and our Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ended August 2, 2014. These forward-lookireflect beliefs, assumptions, outlook, estimates, and predictions as of today, and Brocade expressly assumes nupdate any such forward-looking statements whether as the result of new developments or otherwise.

In addition, this presentation includes various third-party estimates regarding market share and other measuresnecessarily reflect the views of Brocade. Further, Brocade does not guarantee the accuracy or reliability of any or forecast.

Certain financial information is presented on a non-GAAP basis. Management believes that non-GAAP financin this presentation allow stakeholders to gain a better understanding of Brocades comparative operating perfofrom period to period, and to its competitors operating results. Management also believes these non-GAAP fihelp indicate Brocades baseline performance before gains, losses or charges that are considered by managemof ongoing operating results. Accordingly, management uses these non-GAAP financial measures for planningof future periods and in making decisions regarding operations performance and the allocation of resources. Tcomparable GAAP information and a reconciliation between the non-GAAP and GAAP figures are provided in accompanying press release, which has been furnished to the SEC on Form 8-K and posted on Brocades weincluded in the appendix in this presentation.

Legal DisclosurePLEASE SEE RISK FACTORS ON FORM 10-Q AND FORM 10-WITH THE SEC

2015 BROCADE COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS, INC. CONFIDENTIAL - S


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Trends Driving Storage in the Data CeDrivers for Next Generation Fibre Channel

SSDChanges

Everything

Ultra Low-Latency

VirtualizationContinues toDrive Change

Higher SLAs

StorageWill Continue

to Grow

TBs to PBs


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VM Density Growth Demands Faster ConnServer OS growth exceeds growth of virtualized hosts, increasing V


Source: Gartner x86 Server Virtualization , Worldw

Projected VM Growth and Density a Major Driver in Generated Sto


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Enterprise Storage Capacity Continues Una


IDCs Storage Capacity Forecast ~32% CAGR (2015/2

Source: IDC March15 WW Enterprise Storage Forecast, IDC# 254378

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Capacity

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Gartner Sticks a Fork in FCoE!



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TerabytesShippe

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The SSD Revolution Is Happening NoSSD WILL BE AS DISRUPTIVE AS SERVER VIRTUALIZATION

All-flash array: 106.3

Hybrid flash array: 6

2015 BROCADE COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS, INC. CONFIDENTIAL - SSOURCE: IDC, WORLDWIDE ALL-FLASH ARRAY AND HYBRID FLASH ARRAY20142018 FORECAST AND 1H14 VENDOR SHARES.
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SANStrategy


Build Best-In-Class Solutions

with StrongEcosystem

Partnerships

RLower Operating

Costsand Increase

Uptime ofFabrics


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Lowering Operating Costs, Increasing Uptime

Enhancing BROCADEs FABRIC VISION TECHNOLOGY


Measuring end-to-

and VM-leve

BrocadeNetworkAdvisor

Fabric OS 7.x

Hardware/ASICs


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Brocade Analytics Monitoring PlatformFully integrated SAN analytics


Provide data center telemetry

Troubleshoot applicaperformance issues

Enable proactive andmonitoring and asse


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Brocade Analytics Monitoring PlatformReal-time and historical metrics

Read/write I/O latency and first response times

(including both average and maximum values) Read/write IOPS transfer rate

Other command latency stats (reserve, release)

I/O queue depth (pending IOs)

Protocol error stats (partial list) Check conditions

I/O aborts

SCSI reserves, releases, reserve conflicts

Fabric latency

All metrics retained based on data size

2 year historical metric retention via Brocade Network Advisor

2015 BROCADE COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS, INC. COMPANY PROPRIET


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Brocade Analytics Monitoring PlatformDeployment Requires single AF Port on Brocade

Analytics Monitoring Platform permonitored fabric (maximum of 4)

Each fabric switch to be monitored requiresa minimum of one AE Port to formAnalytic Switch Link (ASL) to AMP directly

Fabric switch being monitored must be Gen5 running Brocade Fabric OS 7.4.0x or later

Licensing:

Fabric switches must have Fabric Visionlicense or equivalent

2015 BROCADE COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS, INC. COMPANY PROPRIET


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SANStrategy




Partnerships

RLower Operating

Costsand Increase

Uptime ofFabrics


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Extending Brocade Features to the AdBrocade partnering with adapter vendors with extend features sets

Enables servers to be quickly deployed,replaced, and moved across theinfrastructure without losing SAN policies

Features industry-leading networkperformance to support traffic growth andincreased requirements for virtualized

environments Simplifies management through adapter

integration into Brocade Network Advisor,streamlining deployment andtroubleshooting to reduce operationalcomplexity



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Build Best-in-class Solutions With a Strong Ecosys

End to end, from host to storage array


STORAGE

FABRIC

HOSTS

Brocade Fabric Features on Ser

Feature Q-LogicForward Error Correction(FEC)*

Available Now(HBA firmware 7.03.00)

ClearLink (D_Port)* Available Now(HBA firmware 7.04.00)

Fabric Priority(CS_CTL)**


Fabric Assigned Name

(FA_PWWN)*

Available Now

(HBA firmware 7.04.01)

Boot LUN*(Fabric Assigned)


Read DiagnosticsParameters (RDP)***

On Roadmap

Link Cable Beaconing *** On Roadmap

* Requires FOS 7.2.0d or later** Requires FOS 7.3 or later

*** Requires FOS 7.4 or later


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SANStrategy




Partnerships

RLower Operating

Costsand Increase

Uptime ofFabrics


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Gen 6 Delivers Unmatched Reliability, Scalaand Performance

Maximize IOPS

Fl

MicrosecondLatency

IncreasedIOPS

Deep InsightAnd Visibility

Servers

High-Density

Virtual Servers

Improve Resilience Proactive Diagnostics



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The NVMe over Fabrics revolution will

reduce latency and increase throughput forgreatly enhanced Flash performance


1997 2001 2005 2008 2011 2016

Gen 1 FC (1Gb)Gen 2 FC (2Gb)

Gen 3 FC (4Gb)Lin

eRate

Gen 4 FC(8Gb)

Gen 5 FC(16Gb)

Gen 6 F(32Gb)

Gen 6 FC and NVMe Development Alig

NVMe over FabricsSto

Hard Disk-based Storage Flash-enhanced sto


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FC Roadmap

2015 Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. CON


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2013 Brocade Commu

Generations of Fibre Channel

SFP / SFP+

Generation 1

st

Gen 2

nd

Gen 3

rd

Gen 4

th

Gen 5

th

Gen

Electrical /Optical Module 1GFC /GBIC/SFP

2GFC /SFP 4GFC /SFP 8GFC /SFP+ 16GFC /SFP+

Encoding 8b/10b 8b/10b 8b/10b 8b/10b 64b/66

Availability 1997 2001 2006 2008 2011

GBIC


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FCIA Update Gen 6 Fibre Channel standards

Endorsed by FCIA with press release on February 11, 2014:

Gen 6 Fibre Channel is now the official name of next gen FC

FC-PI-6: Physical Interface standard for 32G is complete

FC-PI-6P: Physical Interface standard for 128G is expected tobe complete in 2015

Featured Gen 6 Enhancements Forward Error Correction (FEC) required to bolster

reliability and availability

Parallel Fibre Channel (128Gb)

2015 Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. CONFIDENTIALFor Internal U

Extend the reliability & performance of FCfabrics


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66 bit blocks will be sprayed across 4 lanes in a way similEthernet

128 G FC - Block Spraying across 4 L

128GFC Data Stream

32GFC lan

Source: IEEE 802.3-2012


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Link distance, Features

Link distance

Features

All Gen6 SFP+ offerings (SWL, 10km, 25km) have the same feature set as Genoptics

D-ports electrical and optical loopback

Power on Hours

Pull-tab

2014 Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. CONFIDENTIAL

32GFC SFP+

32GFC SWL

SFP+

Speed

Distance

OM3 MMF)

Distance

OM4 MMF)

@ 32GFC 70m 100m

@ 16GFC 100m 125m

@ 8GFC 150m 190m


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Connector, Link distance, Features

Uses MTP/MPO 1x12 ribbon multimode fiber (OM3/OM4)

Link distance

Features

Power on Hours, Pull-tab

2014 Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. CONFIDENTIAL

128GFC SWL QSFP28

128G SWL QSFP28

Speed

Distance

OM3 MMF)

Distance

OM4 MMF)

@ 4x32GFC Target 70m(1.0dB connector loss)

Target 100m(1.0dB connector loss)

@ 4x16GFC Target 100m Target 125m

@ 4x8GFC Target 150m(under evaluation)

Target 190m(under evaluation)


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