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FASTER VIRTUAL PROVEN Dynamic Infrastructure Building the Cloud Cloud architectures provide new levels of flexible, dynamic, cost-effective computing. Dynamic cloud-enabled data centers place new demands on the network. 11-Nov-15 BLADE Network Technologies 2 Scale Workload mobility: Abstraction of compute Utilization & efficiency Disaster recovery Ease of provisioning Fabric Intelligence: Abstraction of fabric medium Efficiency & load balancing Disaster recovery Ease of provisioning Follows workload Dynamic Management: Abstraction of compute & fabric Job scheduling & management Disaster recovery Global provisioning

FASTER VIRTUAL PROVEN Cloud Ready Network Requirements 11-Nov-15 BLADE Network Technologies 3 Cloud Ready “Truths”: Solutions should be OPEN – with multi-vendor support Customers prefer incremental deployment, not rip and replace 1.High bandwidth / low latency 2.Convergence to Ethernet 3.Support for agile (virtualized) workloads 4.Build-out and management 5.Green / low power

FASTER VIRTUAL PROVEN Unified Fabric –Lossless With Converged Enhanced Ethernet (CEE) –Low latency For high-performance clusters (HPC) To improve datacenter application performance –Low power Saving the planet –Low cost Conserving budget Benefits –Customers may leverage existing investments in servers, storage and networking –Select the best innovations in the industry – no vendor lock-in –Achieve the lowest possible cost (TCO) via integrable & repeatable implementations Unified FabricArchitecture for Building the Cloud BLADE Network Technologies Storage Data 10G Unified Fabric Compute Ethernet 10G Ethernet iSCSI, NAS or FCoE 11-Nov-15 4 Management

FASTER VIRTUAL PROVEN Unified FabricArchitecture™ Intelligent Networking for Clouds BLADE Unified FabricArchitecture™ is: –10Gb Ethernet switches that are lossless, low latency, low power, low cost –Network-aware Virtualization, FCoE, vNIC, VMready™ –Advanced Fabric Management and Smarter Server Control –Choice of servers, storage, OS, hypervisors and core network –Proven with >8M ports & 350 of the Fortune 500, industry leader ecosystem BLADE Network Technologies Rackonomics is: A repeatable approach for scaling out datacenters to make it easy to deploy and reduce total cost of ownership (TCO) 11-Nov-15 5

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