Welcome to the Brocade Conference

On September 20-22, Brocade® will bring together customers, partners and Brocade senior executives to showcase the future of networking. At this exclusive two and a half day event, you will have the opportunity to learn first-hand about the future of networking at Brocade—directly from those who are leading this effort. Make sure that you're at this event to hear first-hand about important new product announcements, details on key directions in networking, cloud and virtualization technology and how the Brocade vision will deliver specific solutions for customers.

Mike Klayko, Chief Executive Officer
With more than 30 years of experience in the storage, computer, and telecommunications industries Brocade CEO Mike Klayko has seen the transformation of the networking industry first hand.  Listen to Mike speak about Brocade’s heritage and our future, and open our 2010 event. 

After Mike welcomes you to the Brocade Conference, don't miss the opportunity to hear from Brocade technology visionaries featuring:   
 

John McHugh, Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer (CMO)
Market Transformations and Brocade One Strategy
We're in the midst of a major innovation cycle in IT: The computer model is reversed—information is centralized and the consumption and manipulation of information is distributed. As data centers become distributed, the networks take on the characteristics of a data center. John will discuss how Brocade's data center expertise and technology is being used to build all parts of the network from the data center to the edge and how customers are taking advantage of these new models to create virtual enterprises.

After John describes how businesses and IT resources are becoming more distributed, Dave Stevens takes a deeper dive into the technology that enables the virtual enterprise.

Dave Stevens, Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
Brocade One and Data Center Transformation
The distribution of IT resources enables the virtual enterprise and strategy for how Brocade will enable that is what Brocade One is all about. The goal is for customers to take advantage of any combination of computing, storage, or applications that reside in locations other than their local data center. This is the promise of the cloud—having the flexibility to put IT functions wherever it make sense. Brocade One strategy is our philosophy and the characteristics for how Brocade designs and delivers the building blocks that are critical to everybody's cloud computing initiatives.

Jason Nolet, Vice President, Data Center And Enterprise Networking
Brocade Technology: Strategy and Highlights
Jason describes how Brocade is introducing a comprehensive suite of solutions in support of converged fabrics and Ethernet to meet your current and future networking needs. Jason will also highlight key products in Brocade’s broad product portfolio spanning from the data center to the enterprise campus edge and the service provider that enable unmatched simplification of network environments, non-stop networking, investment protection and application optimization.

Review a complete schedule to learn more about informative breakout sessions that will cover a range of critical topics—from IP and SAN architecture for the next-generation data center, to unified wired and wireless infrastructures. Do not miss this opportunity to connect with industry thought leaders and maximize the value of your network investments.