In the words of Mike Klayko, CEO of Brocade, "This acquisition complements our investment in R&D in Ethernet fabrics and SDN, as well as our extensive market and solutions agreements, enabling Brocade to pursue new market opportunities in the areas of data center virtualization, public cloud, enterprise virtual private cloud, and managed services. We are now strengthening our partnership efforts with this strategic acquisition with the goal of being leaders in innovation and thought within the software networking category.".

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