From a single employee printing on both sides of a sheet of paper to a multi-million dollar investment in energy …
A Real-World Look at DataCenterRelocation
To provide a forum for discussion, learning, and idea exchange among IT managers on challenges and best practices in data …
The quest for the data centre crown
Last month, on the sidelines of Brocade’s Annual Tech Day event in New York, I’d the opportunity to talk to …
Cisco to pay up to $112 million in Power-over-Ethernet patent case
The litigation was initiated in February 2008 by Network-1 against Cisco and its Linksys division, Foundry Networks (now Brocade), Extreme …
Collaboration vendors join for interoperability
A number of unified communications vendors including Microsoft, Polycom and Hewlett-Packard have formed the Unified Communications Interoperability Forum, a group …
Aiming high
At the Brocade Technology Day in New York, the company took the wraps off its blueprint for stitching together storage …
And the winners are…
The awards which honoured the Middle East’s channel architects are a barometer for measuring which vendors, distributors, SIs, resellers and …
Carrier Ethernet grows up
There has been interest in carrier Ethernet for a decade or more and — let's be honest –more than a …
Force10 claims 10G Ethernet density lead
The 40-port module increases the density of the ExaScale E1200 core switch to 560 10Gbps Ethernet ports in a single …
Cisco, Juniper, HP drive Ethernet switch market in Q4
The Ethernet switch market grew almost 20% sequentially during the fourth quarter, with Cisco, HP and Juniper Networks adding almost …
Cisco, Juniper, HP drive Ethernet switch market in Q4
The Ethernet switch market grew almost 20% sequentially during the fourth quarter, with Cisco, HP and Juniper Networks adding almost …
Getting down to business
As competition for networking vendors in the data centre market heats up, IP networking solutions vendor Brocade is expanding its …
Ethernet aimed at data center virtual machines
Combatants in the data center wars keep reloading. This week, two switching vendors — Extreme Networks and Voltaire — unveiled …
FCoE: The next wave
It's highly likely that, if you follow the comings and goings of storage networking technology, then by now you've at …
Focusing on growth
Business may have been slow in 2009 but that has not dampen down, Brocade from unveiling a range of solutions …
Emerging IEEE Ethernet standards could soothe data center headaches
Cisco, HP and others are waging an epic battle to gain control of the data center, but at the same …
Showtime for LAN switching
Rabih Dabboussi Director, Systems Engineering Cisco, UAE What is in store for the Ethernet switching market in 2010? Ethernet switches …
Garnering channel momentum
It has been just under a year since networking specialist vendor Ciena set-up its regional headquarters in Abu Dhabi. In …
Skilled up
Technical certifications remain valuable enough that most companies now reimburse their employees for the cost. In the Middle East, where …
Dell enters converged networking market
Dell entered the Fibre Channel over Ethernet market recently, with OEM deals from Brocade and QLogic and endorsed 10Gigabit Ethernet …