Date: Mon Feb 02 2009 - 16:00:42 AKST
Please join us for the February meeting!
When: Wednesday, February 4th, 2009, from noon to 1:00 p.m.
Where: BP Energy Center, 900 E. Benson Blvd:
(NEW Link to Map & Directions) - http://tinyurl.com/2lqygt
Who: All NUGA members and Guests welcome ($5 lunch charge for
non-members)
Topic: Brocade's Acquisition of Foundry Networks plus Fiber Channel
over Ethernet
Presentation:
Who is Brocade?
Brocade's acquisition of Foundry Networks - What does that mean for the
networking industry?
Fiber Channel over Ethernet - Converged Networking
About Tim Braly:
Tim Braly is a Systems Engineer with 15 years of networking experience
working for Brocade covering Alaska and residing in Anchorage. Tim came
to Brocade through their recent acquisition of Foundry Networks in
December of 2008. Prior to the merger, he worked for Foundry Networks
for 4 1/2 years.
About Brocade:
From enterprise data centers to the service provider core, Brocade(r)
develops extraordinary networking solutions that connect the world's
most important information.
Brocade pioneered and continues to lead the Storage Area Network (SAN)
market, providing the industry's most reliable, energy-efficient
solutions. Brocade recently enhanced its offerings by adding
high-performance networking capabilities as part of a complete local,
metro-, and wide-area switching, routing, security, and application
traffic management portfolio.
Delivered directly and through global partners, Brocade end-to-end
networking solutions help today's data-intensive organizations optimize
information connectivity and maximize the business value of their data.
(www.brocade.com)
It should be another terrific presentation so plan now to attend and
bring a guest!
As always, we will have pizza available for your eating pleasure along
with door prizes and free information! About-to-be-vintage Foundry
Networks items in the prize bin for this month!
-- Jerry Tibor, MVP LAN Manager Electronic Student Services University of Alaska Anchorage Vice-President, Network Users Group Alaska http://www.nuga.org <http://www.nuga.org/> anjft@uaa.alaska.edu (907) 786-4734 - voice (907) 786-4888 - fax <https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Jerry.Tibor>
---------
To unsubscribe, send email to <nuga-request@lib.uaa.alaska.edu>
with 'unsubscribe' in the message body. To manage your subscription,
follow the directions at https://www.lib.uaa.alaska.edu/cgi-bin/lists.cgi
