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By: Could Huawei buy Brocade? - The StorageIO Blog - IBM Storage Community

Could Huawei buy Brocade? - The StorageIO Blog - IBM Storage Community — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 22:27:07 +0000

[...] Last week I posted on twitter a response to a comment about who would want to buy Brocade with a response to the effect of why not a Huawei to which there was some silence except for industry luminary Steve Duplessie (have a look to see what Steve had to say). [...]

By: Dude, is Dell going to buy Brocade? - Storageio - IBM Storage Community

Dude, is Dell going to buy Brocade? - Storageio - IBM Storage Community — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 20:20:33 +0000

[...] Dell were to make a bid for Brocade, would Huawei (or here) sit on the sidelines and watch or jump in the game to stir things [...]

By: Dude, is Dell going to buy Brocade? | StorageIOblog

Dude, is Dell going to buy Brocade? | StorageIOblog — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 17:20:40 +0000

[...] Dell were to make a bid for Brocade, would Huawei (or here) sit on the sidelines and watch or jump in the game to stir things [...]

By: The Enterprise IT Acquisition Game – Gestalt IT

The Enterprise IT Acquisition Game – Gestalt IT — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:04:17 +0000

[...] might consider a diversification into hardware as well. One should also look to the East, where Huawei could try to enter the Western market with a merger or joint-venture to cast off the China stigma. Although I would love to see a rebel [...]

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StorageIOblog » Blog Archive » Could Huawei buy Brocade? — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 05:25:36 +0000

By: Marcos

Marcos — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:25:22 +0000

I live at Sao Paulo city, BRZ. I agree with you that Brocade should be part of Huawei’s strategy if they want a huge competitive mkt against Cisco, Cisco was established and Leading Brazil comm´s since 90’s but now they are loosing many deals, specially about troubles with their major distributor called MUDE, legal issues is going to measure with severity by government and high executives.

I worked for Cisco during 90’s decade and 00’s, after that I worked as employee for Nortel, Brocade, Intel, HP, and my last 3 years I spent with EMC.

Our largest Brazil’s mkt follow battle, specially for communications and cloud computing, my suggetion is EMC+VMware+Cisco+Dell, HP+Cisco, IBM+Cisco against Huawei+Symantec+Citrix+Brocade+Lenovo, nobody will fight alone.

For me Intel and Microsoft are in the middle driving relationships, sharing executives like EMC did with Intel, but I developed business at all segments like enterprise, government & federal accts, I never before seen a serious battle like now, believe me.

Marcos Nobrega Jr,

By: Greg Schulz

Greg Schulz — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 23:05:09 +0000

Steve concur that modern math could be 1+1=10+ here.

After all, in addition to all of the points you make, lets also not forget about Huawei deals with storage software vendors including Symantec among others for the asian/oceiana/far east markets.

This is one of those fun, outside of the box type deals to think about, the type that those who think in the box would put it at a 150:1 (isnt that a dedupe ratio ) and thus like the odds of the MN Twins going all the way, you gotta put something into it…

Cheers – gs