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BROCADE HITS THE ROAD TO HELP WITH PLANS FOR SANs

Brocade Communications Systems Inc, a leading provider of infrastructure solutions for Storage Area Networks, announced the launch of a nationwide educational seminar series for SAN users. The Brocade "What's Your SAN Plan" seminar series is intended to teach SAN users how they can optimize their resources and improve SAN management efficiency. The seminars, which feature technical training sessions taught by Brocade SAN experts, will cover SAN management best practices, SAN configuration and change management, SAN performance and health management, SAN security and data availability.

Each seminar attendee will receive an extensive workbook on the material covered during the seminar, a complimentary registration for the Brocade Web-based training course SAN Design Fundamentals, and a discounted registration fee for an upcoming four-day Brocade Certified Fabric Professional certification course.

The "What's Your SAN Plan" seminars are designed specifically for network and system administrators, IT professionals, and anyone involved in deploying or managing a SAN. More than 2100 SAN users have registered for the seminars, but limited space is still available. To register, visit www.brocade.co m/products/WYSP/seminars.jsp.

The seminar schedule for the U.S. and Canada is:

• September 17 Philadelphia (Conshohocken), PA
• September 18 New York, NY
  
• September 23 Dallas, TX
  
• September 25 Atlanta, GA
  
• September 25 Houston, TX
  
• September 30 Iselin, NJ
• October 1 Seattle, WA
• October 1 Columbus, OH
• October 2 Denver, CO
• October 2 Chicago, IL
• October 9 Bethesda, MD

This seminar series is one of the key elements in the Brocade "What's Your SAN Plan" program, which is designed to help users optimize their SAN resources and simplify SAN management. Brocade also offers a "What's Your SAN Plan" Web site, www.brocade .com/products/WYSP/wysp_splash.jsp, that provides a full library of SAN resources -- including white papers, Webinars, a SAN planning guide and videos -- that can help users develop an effective plan for deploying and growing their SANs. "What's Your SAN Plan" will become an international program as well with plans to rollout the seminar series in Europe in November.

"Education is critical to helping end users improve their SAN operational efficiencies," said John Webster, senior analyst and founder of Data Mobility Group. "Brocade's training and certification programs help customers and partners acquire key SAN skills and provide the knowledge to help them better design, manage, and grow their SANs while keeping pace with advances in SAN technology."

"SAN users are interested in acquiring additional SAN knowledge and sharing their expertise," said Tom Buiocchi, Brocade vice president of marketing. "Brocade is committed to providing this type of critical decision-making information and resources to our customers."

For more information on the "What's Your SAN Plan" program or seminars, please visit www.brocade .com/products/WYSP/wysp_splash.jsp.