Accelerate enterprise application delivery with Brocade vADC.

ALWAYS-ON PERFORMANCE FOR ALWAYS-ON BUSINESS

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Meet business goals…with mission-critical business applications that are:

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RELIABLE

SCALABLE

SECURE

PURPOSE-BUILT

AVAILABLE

PORTABLE

Currently, to keep business processes flowing…

of organizations are looking to transform their infrastructure by using public cloud platforms to deliver business applications

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of new applications are deployed to replace old applications

60%

59%

SOURCE: FORRESTER RESEARCH, GARTNER

Make a happy workforce, a productive workforce.

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Exceed user expectations.High-performance enterprise applications deliver a

consistent user experience and are always available.

Highly-productive businesses need top-performing business applications.Yet 88% of organizations say they face application performance issues, often when they need applications the most.

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57%

45%

30%

Say slow response times affect productivity

Waste time resolving repeat transactions issues

Have seen an increase in operational costs

SOURCE: FORRESTER RESEARCH, GARTNER

The more critical the application, the greater the cost of failure.Success is often the root of failure─as more users come to rely on applications, the more robust they must to be to meet demand.

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49%

40%

46%

Poor application performance

Availability hit by unplanned downtime

Critical applications can’t scale to meet demand

SOURCE: EMA WHITE PAPER, IDG & CIO

How do you get your applications to pull their weight?

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Business enterprise applications should:

•Improve user experience

•Provide always-on performance

•Make service management easy

•Be seamlessly portable

Accelerate critical enterprise applicationdelivery on-premise and in the cloud with:

Brocade Virtual Application Delivery Controller (vADC)

When your back office is in order,the sky’s the limit.

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Accelerate your business with Brocade vADC.

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Ensure high availability, when failure is not an option:

With clusters across networksand the cloud

Accelerate your business with Brocade vADC.

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Meet peak and off-peak traffic demands:

With on-demand scalability, up and out

Accelerate your business with Brocade vADC.

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Simplify capacity management and costs:

With pay-as-you-go services that use a capacity-based licensing model

Accelerate your business with Brocade vADC.

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Secure your mission-critical applications:

With a web application firewall that goes beyond normal network protection

Accelerate your business with Brocade vADC.

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Customize your applications toprioritize and control services:

Differentiate user classes and prioritize high–value transactions to optimize service levels

Accelerate your business with Brocade vADC.

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Future–proof your critical investments:With customizations to help you upgrade applications on–premise and migrate them to the cloud

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• Faster and more reliable performance

• Flexible, scalable, and secure network

• Greater efficiency and greater profitability

Achieved with Brocade vADC:

Better application delivery means better business.

Enterprise applications keep running with Brocade vADC.

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“It handles all our traffic with no problem.”Chris Loughlin, Citrix Certified Administrator and Epic Client Systems Manager.

SUNY Upstate Medical University uses Brocade technology to:

• Ensure high availability of health records and other critical applications

• Avoid downtime, zero downtime since the system went live

• Balance any traffic demands and troubleshot problems quickly

Enterprise applications keep on running with vADC.

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“We were up and running in an hour. The level of support we’ve gotten has been 10 out of 10. With Brocade, we can be aware of problems before users call and tell us.”Mohammed Irfan Khan, Manager of Databases and Internet Infrastructure Colorcon.

Pharmaceutical supplier Colorcon uses Brocade technology to:

• Optimize performance of 80 centralized applications

• Improve application availability across a global network of remote offices

• Provide visibility to improve the user experience

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Ready to accelerate yourbusiness processes?Learn more about Brocade vADC and how it can acceleratebusiness processes and reduce time to market:

Discover the benefits:

View the proof:

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ESG Research shows the business value of Brocade vADC

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