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COMPANY NEWS: Barracuda Networks, a trusted partner and leading provider of cloud-first security solutions, today announced Nell O’Donnell as its new chief legal officer and Kim Mota as its new chief human resources officer. Both leaders bring extensive years of executive leadership experience to Barracuda, with successful track records of leading companies through business growth and expansion.

Data protection specialist Veeam Software has appointed Beni Sia to the role of APJ general manager and senior vice president.

Multi-cloud data stack provider DataStax has opened its new regional headquarters in Singapore and made two senior appointments.

IT management software vendor SolarWinds has appointed Mike Prieto to the role of ANZ regional director.

Brocade subsidiary Ruckus has announced its ICX 7650 switch family.

Back in March, Extreme Networks announced it had bid US$100 million to acquire Avaya’s networking business, and that deal has now officially completed.

Many Australian businesses and their global counterparts say they are unable to meet future digital business needs due to a lack of skills, with new technology demands set to outstrip the skills supply, according to a newly published report.

Network speed is not just about faster ethernet IP switches and bigger communication pipes but about every potential bottleneck including often overlooked storage devices and storage network fabrics.

Global application delivery networking provider F5 Networks has appointed 25-year ICT industry executive Adam Judd as senior vice-president, sales, for the Asia Pacific region.

Flash storage helps meet user expectations that their application will respond immediately and, in fact, moving to flash storage in the data centre offers several advantages, says Phillip Coates, a systems engineer manager for Brocade in Australia and New Zealand.

The Queensland Brain Institute has migrated its systems to Brocade’s Gen 6 fibre channel storage network in a move designed to accelerate its work on brain research.

Brocade, the company that acquired Ruckus Wireless, and which is now being acquired by Broadcom, has done a major wireless deal with the University of Nottingham’s Malaysian campus.

Global wired and wireless semiconductor solutions company Broadcom is acquiring network solutions provider Brocade Communications for US$5.9 billion in a deal which Broadcom says will position the company as one of the leading providers of enterprise storage connectivity solutions to OEM customers.

Broadband and hybrid wide area networks (WANs) company, Silver Peak, has appointed 20-year industry veteran Graham Schultz as sales director for Australia and New Zealand.

Riverbed Technology has appointed Uma Thana Balasingam as APJ vice-president of channels.

Network solutions provider Brocade has appointed a former Juniper Networks Australia and New Zealand executive as its senior director for the ANZ region.

A 16-year veteran of storage, cloud consulting and architect roles, Paddy McDermott, has joined Brocade Networking.

If you know what ADC (application delivery controller) and load balancing are, you may be interested in where they are heading.

With a cutting-edge, new, Wi-Fi "Outdoor Access Point" and a mid-range "Indoor Access Point" designed to bring "Wave 2 Performance" to the mainstream market, Brocade has purchased a ruckus.

 Brocade has finally secured Wi-Fi leader Ruckus Wireless with a US$1.2 billion acquisition, completing its ambition to be a "complete" pure-play networking provider capable of dethroning companies like Cisco or Juniper.