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Brocade Communications Systems, Inc., the world's leading provider of infrastructure solutions for Storage Area Networks (SANs), is bringing its expertise in storage networking to next week's Server Blade Summit, March 22 - 24 at the Marriott Hotel, in Santa Clara, California. Brocade will participate in three different conference sessions and will show several embedded SAN switch modules developed for its OEM Partners. In booth #201 on the exhibition floor, Brocade will show the SAN module for the IBM eServer BladeCenter that began shipping in June 2004, and prototype SAN modules for blade solutions that will soon be available from Dell and with the HP BladeSystem. The company will also show SAN Health, an easy-to-use tool that simplifies SAN analysis and reporting tasks. Brocade, which was one of the first storage infrastructure providers to design and ship SAN modules for blade servers, will share its insight and knowledge with conference attendees in three different sessions from March 22 - 24. Session Summary 1. Session 106 - Data Center Management Wednesday March 23, 4:00 - 5:30 p.m. Madhu Matta, Brocade Director, Product Management speaks on "Introducing Blades to the Fibre Channel Data Center." He will be one of five panel members addressing data center management issues. Jessica Yang, Research Analyst at IDC, moderates. 2. Tutorial T1B - Developing Products from an Open Blade Specification Tuesday, March 22 8:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Daniel Cohen, Brocade Business Development Executive, joins five other panelists to discuss the topic of "Developing Products from an Open Blade Specification." Bill Holland, Senior Technical Staff Member at IBM, moderates. 3. Workshop B2 - SAN Connectivity in Bladed Environments Thursday, March 24 1:00 - 2:00 p.m. AJ Casamento, Brocade Solutioneer, leads a workshop on connectivity in the bladed environment. The product exhibition portion of the Blade Server Summit is open on Wednesday, March 23 from 11:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. and on Thursday, March 24 from 12:00 to 2:00 p.m. More information on the Summit can be found at http://www.serverbladesummit.com/ .