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Dell Inc acquires Force10 network
By siliconindia
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Friday, 22 July 2011, 00:13 IST
Bangalore:Dell's possession of Force10 Networks will repair the network crashes as the company is making a plan to build an integrated technology stack for data centers.
Force10 Networks is supplier with a annual revenue of $200 million and is operating in some 60 countries. 80 percent of its revenue comes from North America. They have more than 1,300 customers and six of the world's top 10 supercomputer clusters.
Dell has built up its servers from the PC products and has branched out the services by acquiring Perot data systems and also the storage. It has also bought Exanet assets for scale out NAS, and Ocarina for file and image-aware compression.
Dell has been selling networking products sourced from Brocade and Cisco and there are speculations that Dell will be buying Brocade. The underlying principle for Dell being in need of its own networking facility is that ventures and Cloud Service providers are assumed to buy the complete mass of IT equipments is the servers, storage and networking all together and transporting more cost effective resources.
The main supporters of this idea are oracle the VCE coalition of VMware, Cisco and EMC, and HP. Force10 has its own servers, a line of storage products, including the acquired 3PAR enterprise SAN, Ibrix scale-out NAS, and LeftHand Networks iSCSI SAN, and its ProCurve networking business.
After the acquisition of force10 Dell will become a more capable enterprise and a cloud service provider, IT vendor which would make them the main rival for HP and also increases the pressure for IBM although they have they have their own servers and storage products but does not have an in- house networking ability.
