SAN JOSE, Calif., Feb. 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. (Brocade(R)) today announced that Brocade Tapestry(TM) Data Migration Manager (DMM) received a silver award in the Networking Equipment category in SearchStorage.com and Storage Magazine's "Products of the Year" competition. Judged on criteria such as innovation, performance, and ease of use, the simple but powerful solution for high- performance data migration in heterogeneous storage environments was among 15 top products selected by the SearchStorage.com and Storage Magazine editorial staff in conjunction with a team of users and industry experts.

Tapestry DMM is designed to be a fast, predictable, and easily deployed data migration solution for enterprise environments. The system optimizes migrations across storage arrays in Storage Area Networks (SANs) with easy setup and high-throughput speeds of up to one terabyte (TB) per hour. A unique feature precisely determines migration time in advance, allowing customers to confidently plan the time, budget, and staff resources associated with migration projects. Brocade is offering Tapestry DMM as a turn-key migration service available through Brocade Professional Services, and as a product solution available to end users for in-house use.

In naming Brocade a winner, the awards panel said, "Tapestry DMM works with arrays from major vendors and reduces the need for expensive OS-specific server software such as volume managers and replication tools. With migration rates of up to 1 TB per hour, Tapestry DMM shortens migration windows and application downtime."

The award-winning product is part of the growing Brocade Tapestry family of solutions. Tapestry solutions are designed to address some of the most pressing IT issues in dynamic business environments by extending the value of storage networks to solve broad data management and data center challenges.

About Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.

Brocade delivers the industry's leading platforms and solutions for intelligently connecting, managing, and optimizing IT resources in shared storage environments. The world's premier systems, server, and storage providers offer the Brocade SilkWorm(R) family of fabric switches and software as the foundation for SAN solutions in organizations of all sizes. In addition, the Brocade Tapestry family of application infrastructure solutions extends the ability to proactively manage and optimize application and information resources across the enterprise. Using Brocade solutions, organizations are better positioned to reduce cost, manage complexity, and satisfy business compliance requirements through optimized use and management of their application infrastructures. For more information, visit the Brocade Web site at http://www.brocade.com/ or contact the company at info@brocade.com.

NOTE: Brocade, the Brocade B weave logo, Fabric OS, Secure Fabric OS, and SilkWorm are registered trademarks and Tapestry is a trademark of Brocade Communications Systems, Inc., in the United States and/or in other countries. FICON is a registered trademark of IBM Corporation in the United States and/or in other countries. All other brands, products, or service names are or may be trademarks or service marks of, and are used to identify, products or services of their respective owners.

CONTACT: media relations, Michelle Leach, +1-408-333-5319, or
mleach@brocade.com, or investor relations, Shirley Stacy, +1-408-333-5752, or
sstacy@brocade.com; or Wendy Lewis of FS Communications, +1-650-691-1488, or
wendy@fscomm.com, for Brocade

Web site: http://www.brocade.com/