
Brocade Communications Systems has hung a "for sale" sign on its door, according to a report today in the Wall Street Journal. Brocade declined to comment on the report.
Hewlett-Packard and Oracle have shown interest in buying Brocade, which make switches for routing data storage traffic, according to the report, which added that an agreement is not imminent.

Hewlett-Packard on Monday announced a pair of servers aimed at companies that want to build large-scale computing clusters while maximizing datacenter space.
The ProLiant BL2x220c G6 delivers a pair of blades in the space of a single machine, and memory capacity has been boosted by a third over the last generation, according to HP.
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The announcement of high-end servers by IBM and Hewlett-Packard this week won't halt declining Unix server sales as the onslaught of x86 servers continues, analysts said on Tuesday.

Cisco Systems today said it will not renew its systems integrator contract with Hewlett-Packard, meaning HP it will no longer be a certified reseller or service partner after April 30.
Missing from AMD's lineup are tier-one vendors Dell, Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Oracle.