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This presentation, with prepared remarks, includes forward-looking statements regarding Brocades financial results, goals,
plans, assumptions, strategy and business outlook, revenue, tax rate, cash, stock buybacks, OEM inventory, prospects, as well
as U.S. Federal spending and order flow, and IT spending, which are only predictions and involve risks and uncertainties such
that actual results may vary significantly. These and other risks are set forth in more detail in our Form 10 -K for the fiscal year
ended October 26, 2013 and our Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ended August 2, 2014. These forward-looking statements
reflect beliefs, assumptions, outlook, estimates, and predictions as of today, and Brocade expressly assumes no obligation to
update 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 measures, which do not
necessarily reflect the views of Brocade. Further, Brocade does not guarantee the accuracy or reliability of any such informa tion
or forecast.
Certain financial information is presented on a non-GAAP basis. Management believes that non-GAAP financial measures used
in this presentation allow stakeholders to gain a better understanding of Brocades comparative operating performance both
from period to period, and to its competitors operating results. Management also believes these non-GAAP financial measures
help indicate Brocades baseline performance before gains, losses or charges that are considered by management to be outside
of ongoing operating results. Accordingly, management uses these non-GAAP financial measures for planning and forecasting
of future periods and in making decisions regarding operations performance and the allocation of resources. The most directly
comparable GAAP information and a reconciliation between the non-GAAP and GAAP figures are provided in the
accompanying press release, which has been furnished to the SEC on Form 8-K and posted on Brocades website, and is
included in the appendix in this presentation.
Virtualization
Continues to
Drive Change
Storage
Will Continue
to Grow
Higher SLAs
TBs to PBs
A Simple to
Manage, Highly
Scalable Storage
Network that
Adapts to New
Ultra Low-Latency
Workloads
SSD
Changes
Everything
Capacity in PetaBytes
50.000
iSCSI
DAS
40.000
FCOE SAN
Mainframe SAN
InfiniBand
30.000
20.000
10.000
CY2012 CY2013 CY2014 CY2015 CY2016 CY2017 CY2018 CY2019
Source: IDC March15 WW Enterprise Storage Forecast, IDC# 254378
SAN
Strategy
Lower Operating
Costs
and Increase
Uptime of
Fabrics
Extend
Reliability and
Performance
end-to-end
Brocade
Network
Advisor
Hardware
/ASICs
Measuring end-to-end I/O Latency
and VM-level services
Fabric OS 7.x
Troubleshoot application
performance issues
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
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SAN
Strategy
Lower Operating
Costs
and Increase
Uptime of
Fabrics
Extend
Reliability and
Performance
end-to-end
HOSTS
FABRIC
STORAGE
Feature
Q-Logic
Emulex
Available Now
(HBA firmware 7.03.00)
On Roadmap
ClearLink (D_Port)*
Available Now
(HBA firmware 7.04.00)
Available Now
(HBA firmware 10.2)
Fabric Priority
(CS_CTL)**
Available Now
(HBA firmware 7.04.02)
Available Now
(HBA firmware 10.2)
Available Now
(HBA firmware 7.04.01)
On Roadmap
Boot LUN*
(Fabric Assigned)
Available Now
(HBA firmware 7.04.01)
On Roadmap
Read Diagnostics
Parameters (RDP)***
On Roadmap
Available Now
(HBA firmware 10.6)
On Roadmap
Available Now
(HBA firmware 10.6)
SAN
Strategy
Lower Operating
Costs
and Increase
Uptime of
Fabrics
Extend
Reliability and
Performance
end-to-end
High-IOPS
capable
Maximize IOPS
Improve Resilience
Proactive Diagnostics
Flash Storage
Servers
Microsecond
Latency
Increased
IOPS
Deep Insight
And Visibility
15yrs of Best
Practices
Gen 6 Parallel
FC (128Gb)
Line Rate
Gen 5 FC
(16Gb)
Gen 4 FC
(8Gb)
Gen 3 FC (4Gb)
Gen 1 FC (1Gb)
1997
Gen 2 FC (2Gb)
2001
2005
2008
2011
2016
2017
Flash-enhanced storage
FC Roadmap
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1st Gen
2nd Gen
3rd Gen
4th Gen
5th Gen
6th Gen
Electrical /
Optical Module
1GFC /
GBIC/
SFP
2GFC /
SFP
4GFC /
SFP
8GFC /
SFP+
16GFC /
SFP+
32GFC /
SFP+
Encoding
8b/10b
8b/10b
8b/10b
8b/10b
64b/66b
64b/66b
Availability
1997
2001
2006
2008
2011
2015
GBIC
SFP / SFP+
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32GFC SFP+
Link distance, Features
Link distance
32GFC SWL
SFP+
Speed
Distance
(OM3 MMF)
Distance
(OM4 MMF)
@ 32GFC
70m
100m
@ 16GFC
100m
125m
@ 8GFC
150m
190m
Features
All Gen6 SFP+ offerings (SWL, 10km, 25km) have the same feature set as Gen5 SFP+
optics
D-ports electrical and optical loopback
Power on Hours
Pull-tab
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Distance
(OM3 MMF)
Distance
(OM4 MMF)
@ 4x32GFC
Target 70m
Target 100m
@ 4x16GFC
Target 100m
Target 125m
@ 4x8GFC
Target 150m
Target 190m
(under evaluation)
(under evaluation)
Features
Power on Hours, Pull-tab
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