The chip maker Broadcom said on Wednesday that it had agreed to acquire Brocade Communications Systems, a maker of routers, switches and other computer networking equipment, for $5.5 billion in cash. It is the latest deal in the rapidly consolidating semiconductor...

Broadcom, Ltd bought Brocade Communications Systems today for $5.9 billion, giving the company a strong offering in networking storage business. It’s quite a nice deal for Brocade shareholders, who gain a 47 percent premium over the $8.69 closing price last Friday...

Broadcom Ltd. agreed to buy Brocade Communications Systems Inc. for $5.5 billion, expanding beyond its main business in chips to add boxes that help connect storage systems to computers in data centers. Broadcom, one of Silicon Valley’s most aggressive acquirers, said...

Just a short time ago, networking equipment provider Brocade Communications Systems Inc. was in trouble. Brocade was struggling to define itself at a time when competitors like Cisco Systems Inc. and Juniper Networks Inc. were ascendent, and Brocade's stock suffered a...

Brocade first appointed Lloyd Carney as its new CEO in January this year after his previous employer, Xsigo, was bought by Oracle. In the five years since the fibre channel SAN heavyweight first crashed into the world of networking with its acquisition of Foundry...

SAN JOSE — Storage networking company Brocade, which has been the subject of buyout speculation in recent years, announced the hiring Monday of new CEO Lloyd Carney, who ran upstart competitor Xsigo before it was bought by Oracle(ORCL) last year. Carney, 50, will...

Lloyd Carney, who was CEO of Xsigo before it was bought last year by Oracle, will lead Brocade, which is focusing its efforts on SDN solutions. Brocade, the networking technology vendor that has been making a concerted push into the increasingly competitive...

In his 50 years, Lloyd Carney has enjoyed a profitable journey from Jamaica to Palo Alto. And when he leaves this December as CEO of Xsigo three months after Oracle (ORCL) closes the acquisition announced July 30 – he will start thinking about his next venture....

Oracle tries to capitalize on news of VMware's acquisition of Nicira, but I/O virtualization is not the same as SDN. Coming quickly on the heels of VMware's announced purchase plans of Nicira, Oracle a week later brought news of its own: The company is buying network...

IDG News Service - Oracle said Monday it has inked a deal to buy software-defined networking vendor Xsigo Systems, in a move that will support Oracle's ongoing foray into cloud computing. Terms of the acquisition, which is expected to close within a few months, were...

Oracle has bought data centre fabric virtualisation start-up Xsigo for who knows how many bucks. Xsigo was founded in 2004, and its products connect servers and networked devices across an InfiniBand fabric based on I/O Director hardware. This is virtualised, so...

Oracle has agreed to acquire virtual networking company Xsigo Systems. The software giant announced the deal on Monday, but terms of the deal were not disclosed. Although comparisons with VMware’s $1.26 billion acquisition of Nicira are inevitable, Xsigo actually...

Another morning and another announcement that yet another so called “Software defined Networking” (SDN) company will be acquired. This time it’s Oracle‘s turn, announcing the acquisition of Xsigo. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Oracle did note...

Oracle notched yet another acquisition Monday, announcing an agreement to purchase Xsigo Systems, a San Jose, Calif.-based, supplier of software-defined networking (SDN) technology. The terms of the deal, which is expected to close in the fourth quarter, were not...

In February I interviewed the CEO of Xsigo, Lloyd Carney, and I was mighty impressed by what he had accomplished. Today, Oracle (ORCL) decided that Xsigo was worth buying. What is Oracle getting for its money? In a nutshell, Xsigo has a dagger aimed at Cisco (CSCO)’s...

Just last week VMware Inc. picked up Palo-Alto, Calif.-based NiciraNetworks Inc. in an effort to bolster its networking virtualization capabilities, which had the added affect of pitting VMware against Cisco Systems Inc. Nicira has long been seen as a networking rival...

Oracle today announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Xsigo Systems, a leading provider of network virtualization technology. Xsigo's software-defined networking technology simplifies cloud infrastructure and operations by allowing customers to...

Software manufacturer Oracle announced today that it has acquired network virtualization provider Xsigo Systems in an effort to boost its cloud capabilities. San Jose-based Xsigo connects any server to any network, increasing customers' performance options while...

Lloyd Carney, former Chairman and CEO of Micromuse, joined Xsigo Systems as Chief Executive Officer. Xsigo is the recognized industry leader in the field of I/O virtualization.

Over the last few years I have interviewed over 150 start-up CEOs for my forthcoming book, Hungry Start-up Strategy. There's no one-size-fits-all way to think about what an entrepreneur is. I've concluded that there are six different types of entrepreneurs based on...

It's a little-known company with an oddly-spelled name. But CEO Lloyd Carney is convinced that San Jose-based Xsigo Systems is changing the way data centers work. Xsigo (pronounced See-Go) uses virtualization software to reduce the number of physical cables and...

Teknik Den amerikanska uppstickaren Xsigo har kommit på ett sätt att halvera priserna på överföringar mellan servrar och datahallar. Samtidigt som företaget både minskar antalet kablar och reducerar strömförbrukningen.

Xsigo Systems, Inc., the leader in virtualized data center infrastructure, announced it has been recognized for data center Ethernet switches, according to a new report issued by Gartner, Inc. View Article

シーゴシステムズ・ジャパンは10月5日、仮想化されたサーバをVLANを用いずに独立した40ギガビットファブリック接続を実現するソフトウェア 「Xsigo Server Fabric」の販売を開始すると発表した。出荷は12月より開始の予定で、価格は1ノード当たり9万8,000円から。 View...

シーゴシステムズ・ジャパン株式会社（以下、シーゴ）は5日、自社のI/O統合ソリューションを拡張するサーバー向けソフト「Xsigo Server Fabric」を発表した。これを導入すると、I/O統合環境において独立した仮想Ethernet環境を構築できるようになるという。 View...

10月5日、シーゴシステムズ・ジャパン（以下、シーゴ）は、VLANなしに40Gbpsの広帯域で仮想サーバー間を接続する「Xsigo Server Fabric」を発表した。発表会では米シーゴのCEOのロイド・カーニー氏がデータセンター仮想化の課題と新製品について説明した。 View...

シーゴシステムズ・ジャパンは10月5日、VLANを使用することなく独立した40GB/s対応のファブリック接続を実現するソフトウェア「Xsigo Server Fabric」を発表した。

Bluelock is an experienced provider of Virtual Datacenters hosted in the public cloud and with this implementation has successfully managed to boost its scalability with 8X greater virtual machine capacity and also significantly reduce its infrastructure hardware...

Xsigo Systems, Inc., the leader in I/O virtualization, today announced it has been named to The Wall Street Journal's, The Next Big Thing, a list of the top 50 venture-backed companies in the U.S. View Article

Xsigo has been making a lot of noise in the virtualization and cloud computing industry for few years now, winning VMworld 2009 best of show finalist award amongst others. This year at VMworld, Xsigo is announcing that its flagship product will now be supporting...

Lloyd Carney is the chairman of the board of directors and chief executive officer of Carney Global Ventures, an early round global venture fund. Prior to founding Carney Global Ventures, he was the general manager of IBM's NetCool Division. Prior to his employment at...

Lloyd Carney, Chairman & CEO of Micromuse Inc. (NASDAQ: MUSE), will preside over the closing bell. Micromuse delivers industry-leading business and service assurance solutions to organizations worldwide.  

As the year ended, IBM continued its yearlong buying spree, adding management software maker Micromuse Inc. to its portfolio for $865 million. As the year ended, IBM continued its yearlong buying spree, adding management software maker Micromuse Inc. to its portfolio...

I.B.M. announced yesterday that it would pay $865 million for Micromuse Inc., whose software is used to manage Internet-based computing networks that handle voice, video and data. The acquisition is the latest indication that the many software markets continue to...

IBM Wednesday shared its plans to put down $865 million for network management software maker Micromuse, which industry watchers say is nothing but good news for Big Blue as the network becomes a more critical focus for the big management software vendors. The deal,...

IBM Corp. has agreed to buy network management software vendor Micromuse Inc. for US$865 million in cash, the companies announced Wednesday. IBM said the move would allow it to offer its customers better technology for dealing with increasingly mixed traffic in their...

Micromuse Inc. (Nasdaq: MUSE), the leading provider of ultra-scalable, realtime business and service assurance software, today announced that it will provide key elements of the service management and assurance components to the EDS-led ATLAS Consortium for Increment...

Micromuse Inc. said it will buy Quallaby Corp., a Massachusetts software firm, for $33 million in cash. Micromuse (NASDAQ:MUSE), a San Francisco business software company, said the buy would help it make and sell the "triple play" of integrated voice, data and video...

Micromuse Inc. (Nasdaq:MUSE), the leading provider of business and service assurance software, today announced the appointment of Lloyd Carney as Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, effective immediately. Mr. Carney will be based at Micromuse's global...

There's a new face at Juniper Networks Inc. (Nasdaq: JNPR - message board). Lloyd Carney, a former Nortel Networks Corp. (NYSE/Toronto: NT - message board) executive, has just been appointed to the newly created position of chief operating officer (COO). We're scaling...