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"We are addressing changes in V-DaaS customers' business environments and requirements with the capability to quickly and flexibly implement new services and functions," said Narumi Takano, director of Desktop-as-a-Service Business Promotion, Global Managed Infrastructure Service Division, Managed Infrastructure Services Business Unit, Global Services Integration Business, Fujitsu Limited. "Brocade Workflow Composer is a great automation platform for DevOps environments, enhancing the selection of scripts for developers and offering flexible implementation and licensing structures. We were able to implement the virus non-diffusion service with reduced design cycle and cost than initially expected, to offer highly competitive services."

Other key findings from the Gartner report include:

Digitization and IoT to trigger tectonic shifts in the market

Gartner forecasts that 6.4 billion connected things will be in use worldwide in 2016, up 30 percent from 2015, and will reach 20.8 billion by 2020.¹ In 2021, video will account for about 70 percent of mobile data traffic.² With cloud services, video streaming, Internet of Things (IoT) and mobile connectivity growing at exponential rates, organizations must ensure that the infrastructure they deploy today can support dramatic future traffic growth. At the same time, as network operational complexity continues to grow, improved visibility and automation are becoming essential to achieving business agility.

A live audio webcast of these events will be accessible from the "Events & Presentations" section of Brocade's investor relations website at WWW.BRCD.COM, and a replay of this webcast will be available at that same website for approximately 90 days.

For the first time, Brocade will demonstrate NEW CAPABILITIES in the Brocade Analytics Monitoring Platform including a user-friendly dashboard interface. The Brocade Analytics Monitoring Platform provides end-to-end visibility and unprecedented insight into application performance to reduce storage networking latency. Brocade and QLogic are also demonstrating VM Insight for the first time. A collaborative effort between host bus adapter vendors and Brocade, VM Insight tags virtual machines (VM) to enable monitoring of application performance at the VM level in a Gen 6 Fibre Channel SAN.

Organizations going through digital transformation are leveraging virtualization, cloud technologies and automation to deploy applications faster than ever. Complexity in the data center continues to rise along with performance expectations from users. Unfortunately, many organizations currently lack the tools and visibility required to see through that complexity and determine which devices are at fault for performance-related issues.

In particular, ASU needed a more powerful network with OpenFlow 1.3 capabilities to move forward as an industry-leading research hub. To meet that requirement, ASU deployed a Brocade-powered network that enables various departments to conduct high-volume, data-driven research in their areas of focus.

O'Reilly has over 30 years of experience in executive leadership roles at Fortune 1000 technology and manufacturing companies. He joined Brocade in August 2010 where he has held multiple leadership roles, most recently as chief technology officer for Americas and Federal Sales. Prior to Brocade, O'Reilly was senior vice president of Americas Sales at Juniper Networks, which included the U.S. Federal division. He also spent time as chief executive officer of Solunet, Inc., a top-ten value-added infrastructure solutions provider that had broad public sector presence in the U.S., Latin America and Canada. O'Reilly holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from St. Joseph's College, a Juris Doctor degree from Western New England College School of Law and a Master of Business Administration from Penn State University.

Brocade's solution is the industry's first software-based Layer 7 application delivery controller with integrated capabilities for web content optimization and application firewall. Designed to work within cloud environments, it is easily integrated into an application stack. Deployed via a template that utilizes Azure Scale Sets, the Brocade vADC solution is already integrated with Azure Key Vault to enable fast, reliable and secure application delivery to users anywhere.