hey eric,
Came across some interesting posts here on SI by Frank Coluccio regarding SANs and FC. He's one of the brightest posters here in the threads, in my opinion.
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The last URL on this page, the NGIO link is pretty cool.
Also,
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I believe George Dawson has told me before about the DWDM-FC evenual connections. I wonder if the switch makers are doing something here now?
As for your EMC cc comments...they ARE interesting. I heard last tuesday from a friend who talked to EMC IR that Brocade lost Mcdata as a customer. I believe he said they had performance problems with the Brocade switches. I haven't called EMC IR to confirm if this is true or not. I also wouldn't take this as good news to Ancor, just bad news to Brocade, as your posts seems to come close in saying also. In defense of brocade, maybe mcdata wanted to use their own stuff and just needed any reason to do so.
As far as EMC's stand alone switches (from Mcdata?), I saw Ancor's, Brocade's, and EMC's switches at Networld InterOp and EMC's were HUGE. And as i recall, the Mcdata stuff was very expensive, so you got me as to what EMC is up to or if they have good reason to slam brocade. Anyone got more?
all imho,
pigboy |
