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1. Accelerate enterprise application
delivery with Brocade vADC.
ALWAYS-ON
PERFORMANCE FOR
ALWAYS-ON BUSINESS
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2. Meet business goals…
with mission-critical business applications that are:
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RELIABLE
SCALABLE
SECURE
PURPOSE-BUILT
AVAILABLE
PORTABLE

3. 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

4. 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.

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. Accelerate critical enterprise application
delivery 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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9. Accelerate your business
with Brocade vADC.
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Ensure high availability, when
failure is not an option:
With clusters across networks
and the cloud

10. Accelerate your business
with Brocade vADC.
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Meet peak and off-peak
traffic demands:
With on-demand scalability,
up and out

11. 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

12. 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

13. Accelerate your business
with Brocade vADC.
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Customize your applications to
prioritize and control services:
Differentiate user classes and prioritize
high–value transactions to optimize
service levels

14. 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.

16. Enterprise applications keep running with Brocade vADC.
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“It handles all our traffic
with no problem.”
Chris Loughlin, Citrix CertifiedAdministrator 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

17. 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 your
business processes?
Learn more about Brocade vADC and how it can accelerate
business processes and reduce time to market:
Discover the benefits:
View the proof:
Try it for free:
ESG Research shows the business value of Brocade vADC
Trialthe software free for 30 days
Read the SUNY Success Story

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