Why Acopia?

There have been a lot of questions about the recent announcement of our intention to acquire Acopia Networks, with the most oft repeated question being "Why?" I'm guessing "why not" isn't an acceptable answer. But before we dive into the why, let me tell you a little story... The Death of a NAS Our home network is always growing. Because Don and I both work from home and he's doing a lot of interesting integration work with Java and iControl and I like to play with interesting ways to use iRules, we have incorporated a BIG-IP into our home network. It fronts several...