Business,  Xsan

Brocade buying Foundry

$3 Billion dollars is a lot of money, but I can’t think of a company more worth it.  Foundry makes amazing Ethernet switches.  Brocade makes good Fibre Channel switches and SAN products.  Foundry routers are not a shabby lot either.  It will be interesting to see whether Brocade uses this to go head to head against Cisco.   Juniper has been trying to go head-to-head with Cisco for awhile.  Now, with a new Brocade + Foundry and Juniper, Cisco will need to stay sharp or see serious parts of its business get eroded away.