Update to Network Advisor has new monitoring and visualization capabilities to make Brocade fabrics more reliable. There's also a new 96-port FC switch
The companies will formally announce an agreement for UniKix to be sold through HP distributors and resellers. Also, Cisco improves disaster recovery for System z users; Sun updates its open source identity management portfolio; Open Group
Broadcom will no longer try to buy Emulex but is looking for other acquisitions in the converged enterprise networking market. This is the second time, Emulex has turned down a Broadcom acquisition.rn
The ASE 330 Ethernet acceleration gear will make cloud computing, live migration of virtual machines and data center backup easier and less expensive, says Afore Solutions
Storage maker has enough confidence in the emerging technology that it is OEM-ing the device. However, FCoE standards aren't expected to be finalized until late next year
Dell and EMC co-brand the recently-released CX4 line of storage systems, but the more interesting partnership is the one between Fibre Channel and iSCSI, all thanks to UltraFlex I/O