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Meet the Enterprise IT Superpowers
Who will power the enterprise? The smart money is betting on a few superpowers taking over. After years spent focusing on personal technology, businesses are increasingly turning back to the...
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The Enterprise IT Acquisition Game
The players are lining up for the biggest acquisition game enterprise IT has witnessed in a while Today is the (a?) day of reckoning in the 3Par saga, with Dell widely expected to make a counter-offer...
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Show 38 – Comparing Data Centre Fabrics From Juniper, Brocade and Cisco
Kurt Bales has a customer who wants to buy a new Data Centre Network and the three main networking vendors (Juniper, Cisco & Brocade) have pitched at him and the customer. Kurt then contacted the...
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Eight Unresolved Questions About FCoE
It's not going to be this easy to bridge Fibre Channel and Ethernet! Before the holidays, I posed a question on Google+ that generated quite a bit of interest and feedback. Now that it has settled...
View ArticleCisco FabricPath vs. Brocade VCS
Two solid pieces by Joel Knight bring up facts and features of Cisco FabricPath and Brocade VCS. It’s nice to see this information so concisely presented, from topology to pros and cons. Good work,...
View ArticleBrocade: Yet Another SDN Strategy
It doesn’t sound like Ivan Pepelnjak is all that enthusiastic about Brocade’s OpenFlow/SDN strategy. It’s not that he sees a problem with the strategy itself, just the “us first” marketing tone… It’s...
View ArticleEqual-Cost Multipath in Brocade’s VCS Fabric
It’s amazing to watch folks come to understand and appreciate new technology. Even more so when it’s Ivan Pepelnjak learning a new networking technology! Here’s his take on Brocade VCS fabric....
View ArticleUCS and VCS a great combination
I’m not sure many Cisco UCS customers are really going to go out and buy Brocade VCS for converged networking, but they could. Here’s “UCS Guru” Colin Lynch on the benefits of this combination. The...
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Fibre Channel: Generations
Tony Bourke comments at The Data Center Overlords: In case you haven’t heard, Brocade is rebranding their 16 Gbit Fibre Channel offerings as Generation 5 Fibre Channel. Upcoming 32 Gbit Fibre Channel...
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FCoE versus FC Farce
Tony Bourke of The Data Center Overlords comments: On my way back from South America, I was pointed to a bake-off/performance test commissioned by Brocade and performed by a company called Evaluator...
View ArticleBrocade Vyatta Install and OpenFlow 1.3 on ICX 7450
Nick Buraglio of The Forwarding Plane comments: I recently had a need to test OpenFlow on the brocade ICX 7450 for a fairly good sized, high visibility project. The basic goal is pretty simple, Layer2...
View ArticleYeah, Blame It on Cisco
Ivan Pepelnjak of ipSpace.net comments: A Technology Market Builder (in his own words) from a major networking vendor decided to publish a thought leadership article (in my sarcastic words) describing...
View Article4 Possible Outcomes For Brocade’s IP Networking Business
By now, you’ve probably heard that Brocade was purchased by Broadcom (if you haven’t… I’m sorry to break it to you this way). But what you might not have heard is that Broadcom plans to sell off...
View ArticleNetworking Field Day Events 2017
The first Networking Field Day event will be held January 18th-20th with a second set for September 27th-29th. In addition, two Tech Field Day Extra Events will be held in Las Vegas at Interop and...
View ArticleArris Acquires Ruckus From Brocade Who’s Getting Acquired by Broadcom
When Broadcom announced plans to acquire Brocade, it was contingent upon divestiture of the assets from Brocade’s recent acquisition of Ruckus Wireless. Arris’ name had been circling the rumor mill for...
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Nyansa’s Comparison and Tasty Recipes from the Docker Cookbook in Gestalt...
Here’s your bi-weekly look at what’s happening in Networking. If you’d like to sign up for our newsletter and never miss an update, sign up here! Featured Stories Nyansa’s Comparative Analytics...
View ArticleGestalt Quick Hits: Brocade fire sale, Alliance Storage, Lost E-Discovery
Miss some of the Enterprise IT news this week? Gestalt Quick Hits collects some of the stories you might have missed. Extreme Networks Buys Brocade’s Data Center Networking Business Extreme Networks...
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Intel and Network Functions Virtualization: The On-Premise IT Roundtable
Intel isn’t known as a networking company, but they think they have a play in the network functions virtualization market. The round table discusses what future Intel has in the space, and how they...
View ArticleBroadcom Gets Regulatory Approval on Brocade Acquisition
It’s the acquisition that seems like it’ll never close. Slowly but surely Broadcom is getting closer to officially buying Brocade. The latest hurdle was regulatory. Broadcom and the Federal Trade...
View ArticleGestalt IT Rundown – November 22, 2017
Every week, Rich Stroffolino and Tom Hollingsworth discuss the IT news of the week in the Gestalt IT Rundown. This week on the show, they discuss: This week on the show: the FCC’s Net Neutrality rules...
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