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Brocade to Acquire Riverbed Technology's SteelApp to Strengthen NFV Business

Brocade to Acquire Riverbed Technology's SteelApp to Strengthen NFV Business Image Credit: Brocade

Brocade has announced its intent to acquire Riverbed Technology's SteelApp product line - Virtual Application Delivery Controller (ADC) - to advance its leadership in Network Functions Virtualization (NFV). Brocade will acquire the assets of the SteelApp business unit, and SteelApp development and field personnel will join Brocade. The entity will be led by Kelly Herrell, Senior Vice President and General Manager.

The addition of the SteelApp product line will extend Brocade's software portfolio and enables more advanced solutions for the company's data center and service provider customers. The SteelApp product line will be added to Brocade's growing portfolio of software networking products including virtual routing, firewall, VPN, SDN controller, and network visibility and analytics. According to Brocade, combined with its portfolio of network hardware products, these disruptive additions strengthen Brocade's portfolio for data center deployments, spanning Enterprise, Cloud and Telco customers.

According to Brocade, the SteelApp ADC controls traffic to and from applications and enables fast, reliable, and secure application delivery to users anywhere from the cloud or data center. Deploying this functionality in software (vADCs) enables a dramatically better level of flexibility and cost, and aligns directly with Brocade's NFV strategy, added Brocade.

Jerry M. Kennelly, chairman and CEO of Riverbed Technology
The decision to divest the SteelApp product line reflects Riverbed's ongoing commitment to focus on businesses and opportunities that leverage our core competencies. Riverbed is focused on providing solutions that provide CIOs unparalleled visibility, optimization, and control in the hybrid enterprise, ensuring on-premises, cloud and SaaS applications perform as needed.

Lloyd Carney, CEO of Brocade
Brocade continues to execute aggressively to capitalize on the disruptive force of software in IP networking. Brocade is the #2 data center networking vendor worldwide and this acquisition strengthens Brocade's unique position as the adoption of software-centric networking is accelerating. We are thrilled to add SteelApp's widely-adopted solution to our portfolio and will invest our existing ADC resources to aggressively advance the roadmap and extend it into our open Vyatta Platform offering for NFV and SDN.

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