Brocade DCX Backbone to HP Portfolio

Brocade announced the addition of the Brocade DCX Backbone to the
HP portfolio of storage solutions beginning March 31. The Brocade DCX Backbone
will offer extremely high performance, scalability, and efficiency in the data
center while enabling higher levels of consolidation and cost savings along
with lower deployment and operational risk.

The Brocade DCX Backbone plays a key role in delivering on the Brocade
Data Center Fabric (DCF) architecture, which provides customers with a low
risk way to evolve their data center infrastructures for maximum performance,
flexibility, and investment protection, while enabling important industry
trends such as server virtualization and green data centers.

"HP and Brocade are strategically aligned when it comes to offering our
customers the best in scalability and performance in even the most demanding
storage environments," said Rick Steffens, vice president, StorageWorks
Division, HP. "HP’s storage hardware, software and services combined with
Brocade’s DCX Backbone provides a flexible and easy-to-deploy connection point
for converging and exchanging data between diverse data center networks."

Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.