NeoPath Networks acquired by Cisco

Cisco continues to reinforce its positions. The purchase of NeoPath Networks, the private company dealing with network storage and virtualization, has become the next step. NeoPath is the owner of the SMART virtualization technology and the File Director family of products designed to manage network attached storage and other file servers.

Cisco is making its way in the storage networking market in a very aggressive way purchasing and still going to purchase NAS vendors. Jayshree Ullal, Senior Vice President of Cisco's Datacenter Switching and Security Technology Group (DSSTG), said, "Enterprise customers are asking Cisco how they can make better use of their existing IT infrastructure, and NeoPath is part of the answer. NeoPath's technology will enhance Cisco's Services Oriented Network Architecture (SONA) direction and vision by establishing tighter linkages between file based data and network accelerated services."

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