| Foundry joins Brocade without founder Johnson Brocade Communications on Friday completed its acquisition of Foundry Networks, a deal that brings a solid Ethernet LAN company into a giant of storage-area networks. Foundry stockholders OK merger with Brocade Foundry Networks stockholders approved the company's merger with Brocade at a special meeting held Dec. 17. The $2.6 billion union is one of the network industry's biggest this year. IBM buys Israeli storage startup XIV IBM has bought XIV, an Israeli manufacturer of SAN equipment. XIV's main product is Nextra, a storage system based on a grid of standard hardware components. NetApp to buy Onaro to boost storage management Storage vendor Network Appliance said Thursday it plans to buy Onaro, a Boston company that develops storage management software. Microsoft's bid for FAST bolsters enterprise search In November, Microsoft representatives began to comment that the enterprise search market had reached "a tipping point"; on Tuesday, the company backed up that claim with a bundle of cash, offering to buy enterprise search software company Fast Search And Transfer (FAST) for 6.6 billion Norwegian kroner (US$1.2 billion). An interesting new archiving technology Estorian is a start-up company in the Seattle area that has developed an interesting messaging archiving technology. I was given a demonstration of their technology a few weeks ago and was quite impressed. HP bids on e-discovery vendor Tower Software HP Monday announced it has signed an agreement to acquire for an undisclosed sum Tower Software, an Australian maker of document and records management software. EMC to buy Iomega for $213 million EMC has struck a deal to buy Iomega for $213 million, the companies announced Tuesday. Start-up debuts 'cloud attached storage' at CES A start-up debuting at CES this week has made a device designed to seamlessly connect network attached storage to online backup services such as Amazon's S3 Simple Storage Service. Who's a firm believer of FCoE now? Blogger Jimmy Ray Purser explains what got him sold on Fibre Channel over Ethernet as the fabric for enterprise data centers. January giveaways from Cisco Subnet and Microsoft Subnet
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