Brocade deals for Foundry Networks in Cisco salvo - The Diigo Meta page

• 23 Sep 08
  

  Nakul Lele

  Brocade wants Foundry Networks because Brocade's primary business — it's dominant in a type of switch that connects servers to data storage machines — is under pressure. Data centers are changing, and networking companies are eyeing acquisitions or expensive R&D efforts to come up with technologies that make the servers, storage and related equipment more robust and easier to manage.

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  • Cisco has been advocating that the Fibre Channel and Ethernet technologies themselves should be merged somewhat — a direct assault on the core business of Brocade and Foundry Networks, Weckel said.
  • Brocade wants Foundry Networks because Brocade's primary business — it's dominant in a type of switch that connects servers to data storage machines — is under pressure. Data centers are changing, and networking companies are eyeing acquisitions or expensive R&D efforts to come up with technologies that make the servers, storage and related equipment more robust and easier to manage.

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