Well, gee, Cisco’s results Wednesday started out looking perfectly fine, strong in fact. It earned a record 43 cents a share, or 33 cents net, up 79%, on sales worth a record $10.8 billion, up 27% year-over-year, which seemed to say spending is coming back. Only trouble was the numbers didn’t match or better yet [...]
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Cisco claims 400 customers, described as enterprises and service providers, for the year-old Unified Computing Systems that so offended long-time partners like HP and IBM. (HP’s ticked enough to have dumped Tandberg video conferencing for Polycom when Cisco closed its acquisition of Tandberg a couple of weeks ago not to mention buying 3Com.) How many [...]
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Cisco ripped off HP’s epaulets and broke its sword over its knee last Friday. It’s not going to renew HP’s long-time systems integrator contract when it expires on April 30. That means HP won’t be a Cisco Certified Channel or Global Service Alliance partner anymore because Cisco Certified Channel or Global Service Alliance partners get [...]
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Cisco and EMC Tuesday kicked off a cloud-chasing joint venture called Acadia that includes VMware and Intel as minority investors. Presumably they took the name from the ancient Greeks who used the word to mean a refuge or idyllic place and not the uprooted and deported North American Acadia captured in Longfellow’s magnificent tear-jerker “Evangeline,” [...]
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With IBM and Dell watching its back, Juniper strode into town Thursday like a gunslinger twirling its pearl-handled six-guns around ready to take on Cisco, the fastest gun in the West, and all the other network hombres. The mid-sized company opened its barrage at the New York Stock Exchange, a new Juniper customer, on the [...]
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Cisco Wednesday came up with entry-level rack-mounted versions of its high-end Unified Computing System (UCS) that it means to push into the channel where it will piggyback on resellers that already sell other people’s machines. That mean it’ll be stepping on even more toes than it already has by entering the server market to begin [...]
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Voltaire, an InfiniBand loyalist through thick and thin – mostly thin for the last 10 years – has decided it’s long past time to stop beating its head against the wall and expand into Ethernet especially now that InfiniBand and Ethernet are starting to resemble each other and it can bring something to the party. [...]
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Cisco CEO John Chambers Monday became the latest in a long line of visionaries to come down from the mountain top with an architectural roadmap to the Promised Land at an exploitable industry inflection point. If the purportedly game-changing next-generation platform scheme succeeds, Chambers will be rich, even more fiendishly rich than he already is; [...]
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Replacing – for the moment at least – the speculation that Cisco is interested in acquiring VMware is the rumor that Cisco and VMware are working together on a server code named the California Project. The rumor has made its way to financial circles where Samuel Wilson of JMP Securities, claiming to have “multiple industry [...]
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Cisco has taken a piece of a really ambitious grid-turned-cloud company in Oz called Majitek that intends to turn all the devices and systems in an entire city into money-making utility services. This, it appears, is “intelligent urbanization,” especially in emerging markets, and is supposed to make for better city management, better quality of life [...]
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