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To: Mohan Marette who wrote (413)	2/9/2000 9:23:00 AM
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StorageNetworks Selects Brocade Fabric Switches for Storage Networking Foundation SAN JOSE, Calif., Feb. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. (BROCADE©) (Nasdaq: BRCD - news), the leading supplier of Fibre Channel fabric solutions for Storage Area Networking, announced today that StorageNetworks, Inc., the leading Storage Services Provider (SSP) for the e-Economy, has selected BROCADE SilkWorm© fabric switches as a strategic piece of its scalable Global Data Storage(SM) Network (GDSN). StorageNetworks is using the BROCADE SilkWorm switches as the fabric infrastructure for its storage environments, which offer Petabytes of storage on demand for enterprise customers at hundreds of Storage Point-of-Presence (StoragePOP(SM) or S-POP) data centers nationwide. BROCADE SilkWorm switches connect servers and storage devices through a storage area network (SAN), providing a highly available and scalable environment to support StorageNetworks' customers' requirements for secure, cost-effective storage on demand and the data management needed for disaster recovery, remote data backup, and storage consolidation. Each StorageNetworks(SM) S-POP data center location relies on multiple SANs, each comprising multiple BROCADE SilkWorm switches. The switches are cascaded to create an extended, distributed ``fabric' networking backbone for the storage environments. ``We selected BROCADE Fibre Channel switches to implement in our storage networking foundation because BROCADE-based SANs dynamically scale to meet our customers' requirements and provide high availability to help us meet our guaranteed levels of service. In the service provider market, having a flexible, scalable business infrastructure is crucial-BROCADE switches are a strategic part of our worldwide business expansion,' said Bill Miller, executive vice president and chief technology officer of StorageNetworks. ``Enterprise customers are increasingly looking to external service providers to help reduce total cost of ownership of crucial infrastructures, such as storage; we expect 300 percent growth in the external service provider market over the next two years. In the storage service space, it is a race to build infrastructure and gain market share. A flexible storage networking environment should be a basic building block of any storage service provider's business model,' said Nick Allen, vice president and research director, GartnerGroup. biz.yahoo.com