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 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 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]
Storage stats suggest Cisco is making progress
News While we take Cisco very seriously as a competitor, we believe that the recent acquisition of McData and our ability to offer the market's broadest, deepest portfolio of products and professional services makes Brocade the industry's trusted...
[March 22, 2007, 12:16]
The Day Ahead: Summer siesta for IPOs
News Not only did McData have a good pedigree, it also had profits. Enterprise storage company McData, a spin-off from EMC was the one of the standouts, with an aftermarket gain topping 200 percent. Through 15 August, 56 IPOs priced and the returns were...
[August 21, 2000, 11:59]
Storage switches get Cisco upgrade
News McData, Brocade Communications Systems and CNT are Cisco competitors in the storage market, Villars said. It entered the SAN market last year with plans to surpass competitors Brocade and McData in the next three to five years.
[November 18, 2003, 13:00]
Dell trying to regain lost blade ground
News Dell said its PowerEdge 1855 blade servers can now connect to two network switches made by McData. Dell announced a new hardware partnership it says can help improve the connection between storage devices and blade servers for data centres.
[July 15, 2005, 9:50]
Brocade turns its back on bad times
News While the full effect of the acquisition of McData, which was completed in January 2007, has yet to be felt, Brocade's revenue rose by 7 percent, compared to the previous quarter, to $224.2m (£112m), and by 32 percent year on year.
[February 27, 2007, 13:22]
HP sues EMC over storage
News EMC and its top rival, Hitachi Data Systems, have sued each other over patent issues, as have Brocade Communications and McData, which are entangled over storage networking equipment patents. Hewlett-Packard has sued EMC, saying the storage...
[October 1, 2002, 7:39]
Brocade will shed 10 percent of staff
News Although Brocade stood by its second-quarter projections, an analyst with AG Edwards noted in a report that the company's long-term financial goals appeared "lofty," given the increasingly competitive environment with McData and Cisco Systems.
[April 11, 2003, 9:28]
Networking standard gets Windows storage boost
News Other vendors that have passed Microsoft's iSCSI qualification program include Adaptec, ADIC, Crossroads and McData. In a boost for the emerging iSCSI networking standard, more than a dozen storage hardware companies have proven that their iSCSI...
[November 19, 2003, 13:35]
Cisco and IBM join forces for storage
News It entered the SAN market last year with plans to surpass competitors Brocade Communications and McData in the next three to five years. Cisco Systems said on Wednesday that it will soon begin to sell switches that use IBM's software for managing...
[October 23, 2003, 11:40]
IT giants form open source storage group
News The group, dubbed Aperi, also will include Brocade Communication Systems, Computer Associates, Engenio Information Technologies, Fujitsu, McData and Sun. Nine tech titans, including IBM, Cisco and Network Appliance, announced plans onTuesday to...
[October 26, 2005, 9:00]
IBM storage deal boosts Cisco
News The Cisco switch, like models from competitors including Brocade Communications, McData and Inrange Technologies, is certified to work with IBM's Enterprise Storage System ("Shark"), its midrange FastT systems and its tape systems.
[January 7, 2003, 10:20]
IBM shows off two-petabyte storage controller
News The system has been tested with heterogeneous hosts -- Intel Linux and Windows, IBM AIX, HPUX and Solaris -- and various SANs, such as Brocade, McDATA and Inrange. IBM demonstrated the result of more than three years' development this week when it...
[March 28, 2003, 12:11]
Data storage worlds collide
News SAN disk arrays are sold by companies such as Hewlett-Packard, IBM, EMC and Hitachi Data Systems, while SAN switches are produced by Cisco Systems, McData and Brocade Communications Systems. The world's two main networked storage architectures...
[January 27, 2004, 11:20]
