The rest, as they say, is history. Brocade underwent a successful IPO in 1999 and has emerged the reigning champion of Fibre Channel SANs, with well over 50 percent market share today. But the picture is changing. New storage networking technologies are evolving, backed by technology giants ten times the size of Brocade, while innovation among startups in this market is astounding. Can the original FC company hang on to its leadership as storage networking moves into a new generation?
Kumar Malavalli talks to Byte and Switch on this and other hot issues in storage networking. Click on the links below, or read the interview sequentially.
Byte and Switch: Tell us about your investments and why you have focused on these companies in particular.
Malavalli: They make up my SAN ecosystem picture. Brocade cannot do it all alone; these companies fill in the holes and take them to a higher notch.
[Ed. note: Most of these companies are still in stealth mode, but to run through them briefly: LightSand offers a Fibre-Channel-over-Sonet gateway; SV Systems is working on automated disaster recovery for mid-tier systems; InterSAN provides automated discovery, monitoring, provisioning and control of storage network devices from an application perspective; Karthika is building a storage security appliance; Alpine is building an "intelligent affordable storage subsystem," Malavalli says; and finally, Cloverleaf is working on application-aware storage management.]
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