• 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.

  • Network Infrastructure

    The Changing Mac Switching Infrastructure

    No one ever got fired for buying Cisco.  But, I recently saw a shop where they went from Cisco to Enterasys (thanks for showing off your backbone Todd).  I must say that I really liked the Enterasys switches. I looked them up and they are about 1/2 the cost of Cisco.  They have great tech support and are very easy to configure, even though it’s a command line interface.  The only complaint I have about them is the web interface is good for reviewing your setup but inadequate  for configuration – but is good for looking at the switch configs. Maybe in time this will mature…  I don’t know if they can go to the 10,000+ environments…