back to article Brocade reels in app delivery controller biz from Riverbed

Riverbed is making more progress in selling off non-core assets with Brocade intent on picking up its SteelApp application delivery controller. Under pressure from activist investor Elliott Management, network optimisation supplier Riverbed is going private and selling off non-core assets, like SteelCore, to improve its …

  1. Nate Amsden

    new name

    Others may remember it as Zeus load balancer..I used it for a bit before riverbed bought em, seemed like a pretty good piece of software.

  2. M. B.

    What is...

    ...the difference between an "application delivery controller" and an "application delivery switch" like Brocade's own ADX (which I've always referred to as a load balancer because that's what it is, and virtual editions are available for use)?

    1. Nate Amsden

      Re: What is...

      Nothing

  3. Terafirma-NZ

    on the VCS side you also missed the VXLAN update that allows VCS fabrics to create layer-2 adjacency between different fabrics that can be in different DC's.

    I mention this as I see an article that Cisco are adding this now.

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