Rainy days ahead for Brocade. I think that's why they need the money. The 12000 is in a technical quagmire and the fate of this first generation large switch is increasingly in the hands of a few OEMs whose relationships with Brocade are increasingly marked by friction. And its software ambitions remain just that, ambitions.
Here is a Gartner survey of SAN Management software. Brocade doesn't even show up on this list.
As with any hot market, all storage software
vendors quickly labeled their products as SAN
management products if they could in any way
support storage connected via Fibre Channel.
But Gartner Dataquest's definition of SAN
management is more narrow and focuses on the
products that manage the Fibre Channel network
devices and the paths to the storage attached
to those networks.
SAN Management Products as of November 1, 2001
Product/ Est. Number of List List
Current Customers Price Price
Version (as of 8/1) Unix NT
HP OpenView
Storage Area
Manager 2.0 45 $274,000 $ 90,000
Veritas SanPoint
Control 2.0.1 65 $524,000 $ 32,000
EMC ESN Manager 2.0
ControlCenter 5.0 8,500 $101,000 $ 41,000
IBM Tivoli
Storage Network
Manager 1.1 150 $3.4M $ 31,000
McDATA SANavigator 2.1 25 $120,000 $ 29,000
BMC Patrol Storage
Network Manager (With
Knowledge Manager module) 15 $234,000 $ 45,000
Compaq SANworks
Network View 2.0 50 $ 41,000 $ 16,000
Vixel InSite
Professional 3.5 2 $ 24,000 $ 8,000
1 Price shown is for nine NT servers and 32 ports on a 1TB SAN.
2 Price shown is for 50 Unix servers and 256 ports on a 10TB SAN.
3 ESN Manager is an evolution of EMC's Volume Logix product for access control, which had a large installed base. Those customers were migrated to ESN Manager.
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