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Brocade Extends Healthy Storage
News Brocade has expanded its range of storage maintenance services and products to help system administrators optimise SANs. Announced in the UK on Thursday, the additions to Brocade's SAN (storage area network) Health Family include the SAN Health...
[November 9, 2006, 16:24]
Brocade To Buy Foundry Networks
News Brocade has announced plans to acquire Foundry Networks, in a deal valued at approximately $3bn (£1.5bn). Under the agreement, Brocade will pay a combination of $18.50 of cash plus 0.0907 shares of Brocade common stock in exchange for each share of...
[July 22, 2008, 8:52]
Brocade To Acquire McData In $713m Deal
News Brocade Communications Systems announced on Tuesday that it plans to buy switch maker McData in a stock deal valued at $713m. Brocade's planned acquisition marks further consolidation in the storage area networking (SAN) market, and it comes as...
[August 9, 2006, 17:10]
Brocade SAN Solutions: A More Effective Approach To Information Storage And Management
White Papers Driving the migration to SANs are solutions such as the Brocade SilkWorm family of fabric switches and software, which provides the reliable, high-performance data transfer so critical to efficient SAN operations.
[May 20, 2004, 1:03]
Brocade Moves Into HBA Market
News Network storage specialist Brocade announced figures on Friday showing a doubling of revenue, largely thanks to its merger last year with storage switch specialist McData, and said that it will expand into the host bus adapter (HBA) and...
[June 4, 2007, 17:02]
Taneja Group: Brocade FME - Total Enterprise File Management
White Papers This Taneja Group report, Brocade FME - Total Enterprise File Management, provides insights into how Brocade File Management Engine (FME) delivers policy-driven automation to simplify file management and enable transparent file movement within the...
[July 15, 2008, 16:55]
Brocade Turns Its Back On Bad Times
News After a bumpy year, Brocade has turned in a good set of figures for the past financial quarter that should reassure its customers and shareholders. This comes less than a year after Brocade put aside $7m (£3.5m) for a proposed settlement with the...
[February 27, 2007, 13:22]
Brocade Tape Pipelining With Sun's StorageTek Virtual Storage Manager
White Papers Combining VSM5 with the high-speed tape pipelining features of the Brocade FICON extension solutions allows FICON connectivity to be extended over long-distance IP networks. This joint Sun-Brocade solution helps customers meet shorter recovery time...
[March 29, 2008, 0:01]
Brocade Completes McData Merger And Cuts Jobs
News Networking storage firm Brocade completed the acquisition of McData on Monday and released its plans for the integration of the two companies. On Tuesday morning Brocade boasted of a massive cash reserve after the shares-only acquisition of its...
[January 31, 2007, 15:14]
Brocade Integrates Salesforce Data With Key On-Premise Operational And Analytic Systems Using Data Services Delivered Through Informatica PowerCenter
White Papers Founded in 1995, Brocade (Nasdaq: BRCD) provides the industry's leading platforms, solutions, and services for intelligently connecting, managing, and optimizing IT resources in shared storage environments.
[September 14, 2007, 1:00]
Brocade Will Shed 10 Percent Of Staff
News Storage Area Network (SAN) hardware maker Brocade has cut nine percent of its work force, the company said on Thursday, making it the latest tech company to wield the axe. Brocade's layoffs were announced the same day that handset maker Nokia said...
[April 11, 2003, 9:28]
Brocade Enterprise And Entry SAN Switch Modules For IBM EServer BladeCenter Design, Deployment And Management Guide DDM Version 1.0
White Papers This paper is a user guide written for SAN administrators to help learn about many of the Brocade licensed products and how they relate to the Brocade Enterprise SAN Switch Module for IBM eServer BladeCenter and the Brocade Entry SAN Switch Module...
[April 3, 2008, 7:54]
Brocade: Faster And Greener Than The Competition?
News At Storage Expo 2007, Tom Buiocchi, Brocade's worldwide vice president of marketing, tells ZDNet.co.uk's Colin Barker about how his company's 48000 Director for storage area networks has been upgraded to perform at 8Gbps — allegedly giving twice...
[October 19, 2007, 19:09]
Sun And Brocade: The Green Combination For Your Datacenter
White Papers The combination of the Sun StorageTek SL8500 Tape Library and the Brocade 48000 Director can reduce the carbon footprint and energy costs over competitive offerings. This paper reviews the energy consumption of tape libraries and Director-class...
[April 26, 2008, 1:02]
Zoning Implementation Strategies For Brocade SAN Fabrics
White Papers This document is designed to provide an overview of zoning practices for Storage Area Networks (SANs) based on Brocade SilkWorm 2xxx, 3xxx, and 12xxx fabric switches running Brocade Fabric OS v2.6.x, 3.x, and 4.x.
[August 14, 2003, 16:19]
IBM Switches On Storage Deal With Brocade
News IBM and Brocade have teamed to add another way for Big Blue's blade servers to access network data storage. IBM said on Tuesday that Brocade Communications Systems will soon begin offering two Fibre Channel switches -- one for small businesses and...
[May 12, 2004, 16:05]
The Brocade Data Center Fabric
White Papers This paper describes the key issues facing IT organizations today and explains how the Brocade Data Center Fabric (DCF) provides an architectural foundation and evolutionary strategy for transforming today's IT infrastructures into next-generation...
[March 29, 2008, 0:01]
Former Brocade Execs Face Stock Options Charges
News In a case with far-reaching implications for Silicon Valley, former top executives of Brocade Communications Systems are facing civil and criminal charges relating to allegations of stock option backdating.
[July 21, 2006, 8:35]
The Day Ahead: Kumar Versus Brocade
News On 14 June, Kumar noted that a joint development deal with Cisco Systems left Brocade vulnerable. With shares of Brocade Communications trading near 52-week highs amid stellar third quarter results, Kumar hasn't been able to find anything nice to...
[August 22, 2000, 11:59]
Remote Mirroring And Restore Using COMPAQ Storage And ONI Systems ONLINE Transport Platform In A Brocade Extended-Fabric Configuration
White Papers This application note describes how to set up and configure a disaster tolerant remote mirroring solution on a metropolitan area networks (MAN) utilizing dense wave division multiplexing (DWDM) optical networking equipment from ONI Systems Corp...
[September 10, 2003, 2:52]
