The transaction would combine two highly complementary product and technology portfolios, adding LaCie's line of premium branded consumer storage solutions, network-attached storage solutions and software offerings to Seagate's array of mainstream consumer storage products.

ENGADGET: Seagate to buy LaCie for $186 million, expand its storage empire

Brocade is building automation technology that is VM aware within their switches so that when a VM is migrated, the network and storage components needed for it to continue to function are also automatically reconfigured, thereby minimizing the manual labor that an administrator needs and decreasing your OpEx costs by increased automation.

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