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2007

FORCE10 NETWORKS VICE PRESIDENT EXAMINES BEST PRACTICES FOR IMPLEMENTING SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECTURES IN THE DATA CENTER

SAN JOSE, Calif., March 21, 2007 – To realize the advantages of a service oriented architecture, it is necessary to build out a service oriented infrastructure that provides the scalability and flexibility required to support a highly dynamic application environment, Marshall Bartozsek, vice president of EMEA sales for Force10 Networks®, said today during the Data Centres Europe conference.

“While service oriented architectures promise to enable business agility through IT optimization, the network must be flexible enough to support the level of abstraction required to initiate communications between disparate services and applications without impeding performance,” said Bartoszek. “The network acts as an enabler to these architectures, providing the always on connectivity to interconnect applications, yet it should remain separate from the actual applications.”

To support the advanced level of interaction that must take place between applications, the data center network must not act as an impediment but rather an underlying enabler. Bandwidth and flexibility are critical to ensuring that the network delivers a solid foundation upon which a service oriented architecture operates.

“To provide optimal network flexibility and investment protection within the data center, 10 Gigabit Ethernet is essential,” Bartoszek continued. “With the capacity that 10 Gigabit Ethernet provides, IT managers can consolidate their data centers, prepare for convergence and support virtualized resources in preparation for the transition to a full service oriented architecture.”

Typical enterprise deployments of service oriented architectures take a multi-phased approach to eliminate disruption to the business and ensure that business requirements are being served. The reassessment of the data center architecture to ensure it is well provisioned to accommodate the demands of a service oriented architecture is a critical first step. Aligning the network infrastructure through consolidation and virtualization with the long-term vision for how the data center will serve the business will simplify the process of deploying a service oriented architecture.

The Force10 TeraScale E-Series supports 1,260 Gigabit and 224 Ten Gigabit Ethernet ports in a single system, providing the high degree of scalability data center managers require to build a flexible network that can accommodate service oriented architectures.

Contact:
Peter Ruzicka
Force10 Networks Inc.
408-965-5151
pruzicka@force10networks.com

Contact:
Jennifer Arculeo
Force10 Networks Inc.
408-965-5194
jarculeo@force10networks.com

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