Brocade® (NASDAQ GS:BRCD) Vice Present and Corporate Controller, Charles Read, will present at the 13th Annual Needham Growth Conference on Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2011 between 2:10 p.m. to 2:50 p.m. Eastern Time. The conference is being held in New York at the New York Palace Hotel.

Brocade will make the presentation available via a live Webcast at http://www.brcd.com. To access the archive of past presentations and Webcasts, please visit http://www.brcd.com/events.cfm.

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Brocade® (NASDAQ GS: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.

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