Brocade Hires Cisco Exec for SDN, Cloud Efforts
October 22, 2012
Grazed from eWeek. Author: Jeffrey Burt.
David Meyer will leave Cisco after 15 years to become CTO and chief scientist at Brocade, overseeing the companies SDN efforts with service providers. Brocade is bulking up its software-defined networking and cloud computing strategies at the expense of rival Cisco Systems.
Brocade has hired David Meyer, a 15-year veteran at Cisco who had been a Distinguished Engineer with the networking giant focused on SDNs and the OpenFlow protocol, to head its service provider business as its CTO and chief scientist…
The announcement, made Oct. 18, comes at a time of tremendous transformation within the networking space, fueled in large part by trends such as SDNs and network virtualization. SDNs essentially are a way of removing the network intelligence from complex, costly hardware switches and other appliances and move it into the software layer, making programming much easier and networks more scalable and flexible…
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