Force 10 breaks Into Security

Read this interesting article about Force 10 adding intrusion detection to its 10 Gbps switches.

Neterion Introduces Hyperframe

Neterion has developed Hyperframe™, an I/O Virtualization (IOV) architecture that expands hardware support to input/output (I/O) devices, providing end-to-end virtualization for the enterprise data center infrastructure. Platforms that will benefit from this new technology span all elements of the datacenter, from storage to servers, and will be of particular importance to blade server environments. See press release at teh above link.

Artcile on Nyquist Captal on Passave Acquisition

Very interesting read.

Neterion demoing at Storage Networking World

At the upcoming Storage Networking World conference in San Diego, Neterion will announce that they have teamed with Microsoft to offer, for the first time, iSCSI Remote Boot capabilities over a 10 Gigabit Ethernet SAN. This iSCSI SAN diskless boot demo will be featured in the Neterion and Microsoft booths.

Atrica Raises $28M More Funding

Atrica has raised $28 million additional funding. Please read link provided.

PMC-Sierra acquiring Passave

Major chip vendor PMC-Sierra will acquire GEPON (and recently GPON) startup chipmaker Passave. The acquisition cost is report is reported to be $300 Million in stock. Most of Passave’s business is currently with Mitsubishi/NTT in Japan with annual revenues reported to be ~$40 Million.