LAS VEGAS, October 19, 2009 - (SharePoint Conference 2009)

Brocade^® (Nasdaq:BRCD) and Blue Coat Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:BCSI) today announced the completion of interoperability testing of their Brocade ServerIron^® and Blue Coat^® ProxySG^® appliances for use with the upcoming release of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010. This is the first application delivery technology to be tested for use with SharePoint 2010 and represents a best-in-class solution for secure, efficient remote application access and content management capabilities without straining network resources.

As organizations continue to expand globally and business applications become more network-intensive, greater numbers of enterprise customers will turn to SharePoint 2010 to deliver mission-critical applications to both in-network and distributed end users. Enterprise customers have stringent content management needs—such as access control, compliance reporting, and data security requirements—that are placing greater demands on network resources. The combination of the Brocade ServerIron and Blue Coat Proxy SG appliances provides a scalable path for optimizing application response times, increasing uptime, and enhancing user productivity. Furthermore, this solution is specifically designed to optimize CPU utilization, greatly improving network efficiency.

The Brocade ServerIron and Blue Coat ProxySG appliances extend the functionality of SharePoint 2010 through:

• Unique Transparent Cache Switching and load balancing capabilities to help ensure application scalability and availability
• Intelligent acceleration with caching, compression, and protocol optimization, which can improve the average SharePoint transaction time by over 85 percent
• Local content caching to optimize application response time for improved collaboration across distributed enterprise networks
• SSL acceleration to offload the SharePoint host CPU

“SharePoint 2010 offers powerful collaboration tools that promise to enhance user productivity across the distributed enterprise,” said Dave Asprey, vice president of technology and corporate development, Blue Coat Systems. “The Blue Coat and Brocade solution delivers the scalability and availability required to optimize and secure the delivery of SharePoint 2010 applications to yield a positive user experience and foster new levels of collaboration.”

“Microsoft is pleased that Brocade and Blue Coat can allow our customers to have access to robust networking and application delivery solutions that can enhance their investments in SharePoint Server 2010,” said Tom Rizzo, senior director of SharePoint, Microsoft Corp. “The combination of Brocade ServerIron and Blue Coat ProxySG appliances with SharePoint Server 2010 can provide customers with high availability, security, and performance across the campus LAN and, more importantly, to remote users across the WAN.”

The Brocade ServerIron and Blue Coat ProxySG appliances will be featured in Booth #1126 at the SharePoint Conference 2009 taking place October 19 to 22 in Las Vegas. Technical experts from Brocade and Blue Coat will also be presenting on the topic of network performance optimization on Wednesday, October 21 from 4:30 to 5:45 p.m. PT.

To learn more about the solution, please visit: www.brocade.com/sharepoint.

About Brocade

Brocade (Nasdaq:BRCD) develops extraordinary networking solutions that enable today’s complex, data-intensive businesses to optimize information connectivity and maximize the business value of their data. For more information, visit www.brocade.com.

About Blue Coat Systems

Blue Coat Systems is the technology leader in Application Delivery Networking. Blue Coat offers an Application Delivery Network Infrastructure that provides the visibility, acceleration, and security required to optimize and secure the flow of information to any user, on any network, anywhere. This application intelligence enables enterprises to tightly align network investments with business requirements, speed decision making, and secure business applications for long-term competitive advantage. For additional information, please visit www.bluecoat.com.

Brocade, the B-wing symbol, BigIron, DCX, Fabric OS, FastIron, IronPoint, IronShield, IronView, IronWare, JetCore, NetIron, SecureIron, ServerIron, StorageX, and TurboIron are registered trademarks, and DCFM, Extraordinary Networks, and SAN Health are trademarks of Brocade Communications Systems, Inc., 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.

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Blue Coat, ProxySG and the Blue Coat logo are registered trademarks or trademarks of Blue Coat Systems, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the United States and certain other countries. All other trademarks mentioned in this document are the property of their respective owners.

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