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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 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]
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 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 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 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 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 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 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]
Dell and Brocade forge closer alliance
News Dell announced on Wednesday that it is tightening its sales and marketing partnership with networking infrastructure company Brocade. We are extending our Brocade relationship beyond storage into the broader datacentre, offering customers...
[September 3, 2009, 16:40]
Brocade File Insight
Downloads Brocade File Insight is a free Windows-based reporting utility that provides a quick and easy way to understand your SMB/CIFS network file environments. It scans both Windows file servers and non-Windows NAS devices, generating valuable reports on...
[September 18, 2008, 16:11]
IBM-Brocade deal steps up Cisco rivalry
News IBM is expected to announce on Tuesday that it plans to resell Ethernet switching equipment from Brocade, a much smaller rival to Cisco. Under the agreement, IBM will rebrand and sell Brocade's enterprise IP networking equipment as its own through...
[April 28, 2009, 16:47]
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]
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]
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 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]
Achieving Enterprise SAN Performance With the Brocade 48000 Director
White Papers The Brocade 48000 Director is the industry's highest-performing platform for supporting enterprise-class Storage Area Network (SAN) operations. With its intelligent fifth-generation ASICs and new hardware and software capabilities, the Brocade...
[September 10, 2008, 0:00]
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]
True Fabric Interoperability for Today's SANs
White Papers Brocade currently has three solutions to enable fabric interoperability: direct E_Port interoperability, FCR interoperability, and Access Gateway interoperability. Brocade is further developing these interoperability techniques and anticipates...
[September 10, 2008, 0:00]
Data Center Fabric: Leveraging 8 Gbit/sec Fibre Channel End to End in the Data Center
White Papers Speed increase in Brocade switching platforms is one of many advantages from Brocade's next generation ASIC family. Every data center user has or will have these needs in the future, and as data center plans are developed, Brocade's integrated end...
[August 7, 2009, 1:20]
