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Brocade Reportedly Putting Self Up for Sale
(Reuters) – U.S. network equipment maker Brocade Communications Systems Inc. has put itself up for sale, the Wall Street Journal said on Monday, triggering a 14 percent jump in the company’s shares. The paper, citing people familiar with the matter, said Oracle Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co were potential bidders for the company, but a deal…
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VMware Updates Disaster Recovery Software for Virtualization
Adding support for its most recent product update VMware vSphere 4 and for Network File System (NFS)-based storage replication, VMware is now offering an updated version of its VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager 4. The software, first introduced in June 2008 and now updated for the first time, offers automated disaster recovery for VMware environments.…
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Cisco, IBM, HP and Dell Named as Possible Brocade Suitors
Brocade (NASDAQ:BRCD) has put itself on the market, and Hewlett-Packard and Oracle are among those interested in potentially buying the networking and storage technology vendor, according to a report today in the Wall Street Journal. Several big technology vendors—HP, Sun, IBM and most recently Dell—have built their vertical data center solutions via partnerships with Brocade,…
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Storage Specialist Xiotech Snags $10 Million in Financing
Just five months after it laid off about 14 percent of its workforce, Eden Prairie, Minn.-based Xiotech hopes to accelerate its storage networking business out of the recession with a new round of $10 million in financing that it says will help it build out new product offerings for release in early 2010. A specialist…
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Storage Vendor NetApp Intros FAS2040, Drops Price on FAS2020
With its reseller channel partners in mind, NetApp has simplified its FA2000 product line, reducing the number of SKUs from over 45 to about 10. NetApp this week also announced a new FAS2040 storage system for midsized enterprise and distributed enterprise customers and announced significant price reductions for its FAS2020 systems. “These changes came as…
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Dramatic Changes Come to NetApp’s FAS Line
NetApp has announced a series of enhancements to its FAS unified storage architecture system. This includes a new solution for the lower part of the midsize enterprise space, the FAS2040 storage system. The company also announced significant price reductions for its FAS2020 systems and associated software. And it announced a significant reduction in FAS2020 SKUs,…