So I was expecting Broadcom to add FCoE to its portfolio. Buying Emulex adds FC expertise it didn't have and allows it to play in the FCoE market earlier, as players from Cisco and Brocade to NetApp try to establish a beachhead behind the new technology. It also puts Broadcom in a position to get the "I want FCoE because I can still use my $100,000 SRM package to manage it from HBA to disk like I manage my FC SAN today" crowd, or at least the Emulex-using part of it.
Anyone else remember when Emulex was a NIC vendor?
Howard Marks is chief scientist at Networks Are Our Lives Inc., a Hoboken, N.J.-based consultancy where he's been beating storage network systems into submission and writing about it in computer magazines since 1987. He currently writes for InformationWeek, which is published by the same company as Byte and Switch.
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