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CRN:"Cisco Competitors Say Meraki Move Makes Them More Attractive"
Several of Cisco and Meraki's wireless and cloud networking market competitors say that Cisco's $1.2 billion acquisition of Meraki validates many of the moves they've already made -- and raises their profile as channel partners that much more. Many of...
Cisco Is Just Too Boring
There comes a point in the life of most companies when they realize that no matter what they do it will never be enough to excite investors. This is a reality with which network giant Cisco must deal. Because despite recently logging its seventh consecutive...
Cisco Acquire Cloupia to Advance Data Center Cloud Orchestration
Networking giant Cisco announced today that it is acquiring privately held cloud software vendor Cloupia for $125 million. Cloupia develops infrastructure management software for automating data center infrastructure. The company's core product is the...
Cisco’s Nexus is a Big Big Deal
It's hard to overstate how important the Nexus data-center switching platform, set to be unveiled Monday, is to Cisco Systems: for the dominant networking vendor's enterprise business, it's the biggest thing since the Catalyst 6000, which made its debut...
Three Big Reasons to Buy Cisco
While Cisco Systems has put up lackluster results thus far this year – down just over 1% on a year-to-date basis as of this writing– there are some significant reasons to buy this stock at current levels. To begin with, even as analysts wrongly try to...
Cisco Said to Cut Ties with China's ZTE
Follows investigation into sales to Iran Cisco has reportedly cut ties with Chinese telecom vendor ZTE after allegations that ZTE sold Cisco gear to Iran. In June, a Reuters story revealed that Cisco, HP and Oracle gear was being sold to an Iranian mobile...
Cisco and NetApp Waggle Shrunken ExpressPod at Hitachi and Friends
Get a load of our converged convergement VMworld It looks like the vendors are sizing each other up for battle in the converged systems world at VMworld: NetApp and Cisco have announced ExpressPod , a pre-packed and tested and downsized FlexPod. Storage...
Cisco CEO---John Chambers’ Almost Excellent Adventure
Cisco CEO John Chambers had a very active week this week, making the rounds with the daily business press to address such topics as his retirement, rival HP and suggestions for the next President of the United States. His week ended with the disclosure...
Cisco Celebrates Ongoing Role in Australian National Broadband Network Build
September 25, 2012, Cisco announced that it has been selected by NBN Co to provide equipment for its national data connectivity network. Established by the Australian federal government, NBN Co will design, build and operate Australia's wholesale-only,...
Cisco delivers new wave of security solutions to defend fast-evolving data centers
Cisco introduced a set of security solutions designed to protect data centers in the Middle East against the threats they face in moving toward more consolidated and virtualized environments, while also enabling businesses to take advantage of new cloud-based...