Believing that the Internet is going to turn into one big cloud-ified television set that needs big pipes Cisco said Thursday that it’s going to buy England’s NDS Group for roughly $5 billion. It’s Cisco biggest acquisition since it bought Tandberg, the video conferencing outfit, back in 2009 for $3.4 billion, and it’s meant to [...]
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Cisco needs to sell a lot of products. Well, everybody needs to sell a lot of products, but Cisco is particularly needy or else it wouldn’t be in the middle of a restructuring now would it. So to move a lot of products it’s come with CloudVerse, which isn’t a product, it’s a framework, a [...]
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HP took its white dancing gloves off the other day, bared its claws, hissed and spit venom in Cisco’s face from the podium at Interop. Having left its party manners at home it told everybody who would listen that Cisco is the master of complexity, high prices and that dirtiest word of all, lock-in. “Single-vendor, [...]
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Cisco, EMC and VMware have abandoned the clumsy and confusing bifurcated structure that has marked their formal alliance since it got off the ground in November of 2009 in favor of a single cloud-chasing company, the Virtual Computing Environment Company – VCE. The Acadia joint venture oddly appended to the original VCE Coalition is gone, [...]
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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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