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Force10

Company

Information technologies
USA
San Jose
95134-1362, 350 Holger Way


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Producer of network equipment and technologies.

Owners:
Dell

Owners

In July, 2011 announced Dell signing of the final agreement about acquisition of company Force10 Networks, Inc. which is the leader in solutions for high-performance networks of data centers. Network Force10 technologies will add a solution portfolio of Dell for data centers which offers clients a wide choice of products of a corporate class now. For the last three years of Dell several times took important steps for expansion of the corporate portfolio in order that customers could find a full range of products and solutions for data centers in it. Among these steps there is a development of the integrated stack of the servers, storage systems, best in the industry, network equipment and services which help customers to optimize the transactions, to cut down expenses on IT, to control growth of amounts of data and to simplify management.

For the last 12 months income of the company was nearly 200 million dollars from which about 80 percent are the share of business in North America. It works in more than 60 countries. The architecture of Open Cloud Networking offered Force10 is based on open standards, automation and virtualization therefore she well fits into the principles of new product development used by Dell. The Force 10 technology helps customers to turn the network infrastructure open, reliable and scalable factory of data center and cloud computing. Force10 provides global service and support both via channels of direct sales, and through extensive network of her partners in the channel and system integrators. worldwide, Dell promises to continue and develop the Force10 program for work with partners in the channel as it was at recent acquisitions of Compellent and EqualLogic companies. Among customers of Force10 there are largest companies Web 2.0 and from the list of Fortune 100, the Internet portals, global telecom operators conducting research laboratories and the government organizations, a part of which uses the biggest in the world network infrastructures.


Main advantages of Force10:

  • Flexible and open automation and management
  • High scalability of a core of network of data center at the affordable price
  • Automatic configuring the politician and mobility the Leading positions of Dell in Virtual Hera the Strategy of Dell 'Virtual Era' is an open integrated approach to solutions for data centers. According to this strategy in network technologies Dell stakes on performance improvement which is capable to cut down considerably expenses due to significant optimization of transactions. Solutions Force10 provide performance and fault tolerance of a corporate class, reducing total cost of ownership (TCO), simplifying deployment of networks and supporting the systems and solutions for management opened and based on standards. Dell and Force10 successfully cooperated more than six years, providing to customers network solutions, open, powerful and available at the price, for their data centers.

The concept of intellectual infrastructure management which is offered by Dell ensures the coordinated functioning of servers, storage systems and network resources on the basis of an open architecture irrespective of whether these IT resources are virtual, local and remote, products of Dell or other vendors, and at the same time providing efficiency, profitability, security and fault tolerance of automatic control of resources. Force10 was founded in 1999. The headquarters of the company is located in San Jose (California), and its divisions of research and development – in Silicon Valley. Dell is also going to save division of Force10 in Chennay (India) and will invest in expansion of its resources of developments and sales. This transaction was approved by Boards of Directors of both companies. Additional conditions of transaction are not disclosed. Transaction should get approval of regulating authorities and it is expected that it will be complete at the end of summer. Quotes