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SONY CHINA STANDARDIZES ON BROCADE SAN INFRASTRUCTURE

Brocade Communications Systems Inc (Brocade), a leading provider of infrastructure solutions for Storage Area Networks (SANs), announced recently that Sony (China) Ltd, a leading provider of audio, video, communications, and information technology products for the consumer and professional markets, has standardized on Brocade as the highly available, intelligent foundation for its storage environment. Enterprises such as Sony (China) Ltd need to cost-effectively manage the rapid growth of information created by e-business and other data-intensive applications, such as SAP and e-mail.

Sony has turned to a Brocade SAN as a cost-effective way of centralizing and managing critical enterprise data. The company determined that a Brocade SAN would give them the ability to implement a strategic IT infrastructure, increase application performance, and manage ever-growing information assets. The Sony (China) SAN is based on 2 gigabit per second Brocade SilkWorm 3800 Enterprise Fabric Switches and currently gives the company continuous access to more than 500 gigabytes of data.

"As a result of implementing a Brocade SAN, we have reduced our backup time to nine hours, allowing for daily backups. These can be performed overnight, so critical business operations are not interrupted. In addition, because we have removed the LAN from the backup and recovery process by implementing a SAN, each server sends its own backup data directly to the shared tape resources instead of through the network to the backup server, giving us continuous access to data," said Jin Yong, Sony (China)'s IS Department Supervisor.

"Brocade is pleased to work with Sony to help it handle rapid growth of data and the demand for high-speed data information processing. Brocade continues to exceed the needs of our customers by enabling global organizations like Sony to develop and deploy strategic SAN infrastructure strategies to better manage growth while optimizing existing IT environments," said Jeffrey Brooks, Brocade Chief Marketing Officer.

About Sony

Sony is a leading manufacturer of audio, video, game, communications and information technology products for the consumer and professional markets. With music, pictures, computer entertainment and online businesses, Sony is uniquely positioned to be a leading broadband entertainment company in the world. For over fifty years, Sony has strived to make products that are continuously better, smaller and more innovative. It has also diversified its business into many other areas, and has a strong presence in over 70 countries, including China.

About Brocade Communications Systems Inc

Brocade offers the industry's leading intelligent platform for networking storage. The world's leading systems, applications, and storage vendors have selected Brocade to provide a networking foundation for their SAN solutions. The Brocade SilkWorm family of fabric switches and software is designed to optimize data availability and storage and server resources in the enterprise. Using Brocade solutions, companies can simplify the implementation of storage area networks, reduce the total cost of ownership of data storage environments, and improve network and application efficiency. For more information, visit the Brocade Web site at www.brocade.com or contact the company at info@brocade.com.