Applied Discovery With Brocade Solutions

Brocade announced that Applied
Discovery, a leading provider of electronic discovery services to the nation’s
top corporations and law firms, is better able to meet Service Level
Agreements (SLAs) for clients with complex and large discovery matters,
including Fortune 100 companies in the financial, securities, and
pharmaceutical sectors and AmLaw 100 law firms, by implementing a Brocade
Storage Area Network (SAN). The Brocade SAN has overcome space and power
limitations and provides half a petabyte of Tier 1 storage used by the
Seattle-based company to host electronically stored information used in
litigation.

A business unit of LexisNexis, Applied Discovery also relies on high-speed
Brocade SAN routers to link several facilities to its new data center, a
hosted site in Washington state. This approach helps the company rapidly
migrate terabytes of data between the sites.

"Brocade solutions provide the performance, efficiencies, and form factor
to maximize density constraints and minimize energy expenditures," said Gary
Oberg, vice president of IT and development, Applied Discovery. "Heat and
power are big concerns for companies like ours that must maintain constantly
growing volumes of data, and data center space is very expensive. Brocade’s
enterprise-class directors allow us to economize on space and electrical power
while delivering industry-leading performance and scalability."

Putting its clients first, Applied Discovery looked for new solutions to
accommodate the company’s explosive growth to host more than 1000 client
databases in over 50 SQL clusters within its data center. With business
continuing to expand, the company sought a best-of-breed solution that would
allow for further scalability without expanding its footprint or consuming
unnecessary power.

To meet its needs, Applied Discovery standardized on Brocade 48000
Directors for the SANs at all of its facilities. The directors can provide 4
or 8 Gbit/sec Fibre Channel speeds with up to 384 ports, delivering the port
density and performance that the legal services provider required. Because of
the compact form factor and much lower power consumption, the company also can
place two Brocade 48000 Directors in a single rack, maximizing data center
space.

In August 2007, Applied Discovery installed two Brocade 48000 Directors at
its Washington state data center, and the company plans to install additional
platforms at its other sites. The firm also deployed two Brocade 7500 SAN
Routers to provide high-speed FCIP connectivity, allowing it to consolidate
data. The Brocade 7500 is the industry’s leading 4 Gbit/sec Fibre Channel
routing switch. To simplify administration and management of the new high-
speed infrastructure, Applied Discovery uses Brocade Fabric Manager.

"Brocade solutions are more compact and offer unsurpassed performance and
scalability, while consuming a fraction of the power of our legacy devices,"
concluded Oberg. "Brocade provides state-of-the-art data connectivity services
that efficiently optimize our data center resources. With Brocade solutions,
Applied Discovery will continue to satisfy our clients and meet our SLAs."

Applied Discovery, Inc.

Brocade