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Brocade to acquire Foundry Networks
Brocade
Communications has made known its intent to acquire Foundry Networks in a deal
valued at $3 billion. Foundry is a
12-year-old company dealing in switching and routing for the enterprise
McData offers three storage apps together
McData, not yet integrated with past rival and recent acquirer Brocade Communications Systems, said it's merging three software products into one. The software includes Enterprise Fabric Connection Manager, SANpilot and SANavigator. Together they'll use the EFCM name starting life as version 9.0, officials explained. Put more simply, the suite gives administrators tools for managing McData's 4- and 10Gbit/s Fibre Channel switches along with management of virtual and logical partitions and …
US defense dept. has largest port SAN
Most geeks define a big storage network as being, say, anything more than 100 ports and a massive storage network as being more than 1,000 ports. Keeping that in mind, the U.S. defense department's new SAN has 17,000 ports! It's powered by Brocade Communications Systems and uses Fibre Channel over IP routing between geographically dispersed segments. Connected to all those ports are a combination of unspecified brands of tiered storage arrays.
For more on SANs:
- read this Techworld article
Brocade updates SAN software line
Brocade Communications Systems will soon release updates to a variety of software tools and hardware. Data Migration Manager is getting the ability to move bits while systems remain online without downtime. Application Resource Manager can perform automatic hardware failovers including to iSCSI connections. StorageX has policies and file replication reporting options. Also due from Brocade are a 48-port Fibre Channel blade, an eight-port iSCSI blade, a blade access gateway as well as …
Eclipse preps open-source storage app
IBM's open-source storage management software, Aperi, has not made much headway thus far but that may change now that it's been approved by the Eclipse Foundation. Aperi was originally seen as an anti-EMC move, so transforming it into a mainstream Eclipse project lends some credibility. Other companies involved include Brocade Communications Systems/McData, CA, Cisco Systems, Emulex, Fujitsu, LSI Logic, Network Appliance, and Novell. Yet some big names are still missing such as EMC, …
DEALS: Content management, storage
IBM buys FileNet, Brocade gets rival McData.
Oracle certifies pretested stacks
Oracle is now certifying 10 pretested software stacks for Linux, officials said. They've also completed pretesting for storage switches from Brocade Communications Systems and Cisco Systems, and for storage itself from start-up Pillar Data Systems (founded and funded by Oracle's Larry Ellison.) Oracle calls its stack testing Validated Configurations and expects to add one new partner per month, officials said. In the future, they'll also seek tests from customers.
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Brocade buys McData for $713M
Brocade Communications Systems is acquiring long-time rival McData for $713 million in stock. This is another round of consolidation for the storage switch business: McData was acquired by EMC, then got spun out, and then acquired CNT (after CNT acquired Inrange.) Meanwhile Brocade has been more newsworthy lately for the legal problems of former CEO Greg Reyes. Oddly, Brocade said McData will be run as a full subsidiary. Expect to hear technical integration plans soon.
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SPOTLIGHT: Brocade is just the beginning, warns SEC chief
The SEC is investigating 80 companies for stock options fraud, many of which are technology giants in Silicon Valley. The first indictments are against storage-switch maker Brocade Communications Systems, specifically against former CEO Greg Reyes. Article
DEALS: Ma Bell may be back; BlackBerry settled at last
Two weeks of BIG deals.
