Data Center Networking Leader Brocade Names Two New Executives to Critical Posts as Foundry Acquisition Closes

India – December 22, 2008 – Brocade® (Nasdaq: BRCD) today announced the following executive appointments:

Facts

Marc Randall named Brocade Senior Vice President of Products and Offerings:

Networking industry veteran with more than 25 years of experience in the high-tech sector

Spent eight years at Force10 Networks, where he served as CEO from 2003 to 2008 and led the company from less than $10 million (USD) to $150 million in annual revenues

Served seven years at Cisco Systems as Vice President of Engineering, where he led the development of the Cisco 7500 Series router

Served 13 years at Amdahl Corporation in various engineering leadership positions

Holds a BS in Electronics Engineering Technology

Dave Stevens named Brocade Chief Technology Officer (CTO):

Networking industry veteran with more than 20 years of experience in the high-tech sector

Most recently was Founder and CEO of Palo Alto Networks

Previously served at Brocade from 2003 to 2004 as Vice President and CTO of Brocade Transport Systems (after joining Brocade through the acquisition of Rhapsody Networks in 2003, where he was Vice President of Business Development)

Served in senior management positions at Atmosphere Networks, Bay Networks, Nortel, and SynOptics

Holds both a BS and an MS in Electrical Engineering

Quotes
“The three key success factors for the next 12 months are the integration of Foundry, as measured by employee retention, market share growth, and increased revenue,” said Marc Randall, Brocade Senior Vice President of Products and Offerings. “The second element is broadening the Brocade brand. Our goal is to ensure that ‘Brocade’ and ‘networking leadership’ are one in the same. The third element is partnering. We have to build a very strong partner program. If we have those three elements in the next 12 months, we will clearly be on the way to huge successes.”

“With these two companies together, you will see us implement best practices from every area of the network infrastructure, from service providers to campus LANs to the data center,” said Dave Stevens, Brocade Chief Technology Officer. “The result will be combined technologies that leverage everything from switching architectures and ASICS to command line interfaces, routing code, and operating system services. The objective is to develop a family of converged infrastructure solutions that enable our customers to experience a consistent level of performance, quality, network services, and management interfaces from end to end.”
Videos

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FOC-Jjf4tk (Marc Randall)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyC-0zZx08M (Dave Stevens)

Photos (All Sizes)

Marc Randall, Brocade Senior Vice President of Products and Offerings http://www.flickr.com/photos/33437642@N02/3119093941/sizes/l/in/photostream/
Dave Stevens, Brocade Chief Technology Officer (CTO) http://www.flickr.com/photos/33437642@N02/3115859743/sizes/l/in/photostream/

About Brocade

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