Archive for the ‘Cisco’ Category
Cisco Bombs Big Time; Raises Macro Uncertainties
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 [...]
Cisco Cashiers HP from its Partner Ranks
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 [...]
Cisco, VMware, NetApp in Petite Entente
First there was the great alliance between Cisco, VMware and EMC and now there’s a littler, less trumpeted triumvirate made up of Cisco, VMware and EMC rival NetApp assembled in the name of virtual and cloud security. It means they’ll have some recommended, pre-tested, and validated end-to-end configurations that they’ll promote as their so-called Secure [...]
Cisco, EMC, VMware & Intel Form Acadia JV
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,” [...]
Juniper’s Out Gunning for Cisco
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 [...]
Cisco Pushes into Volume Server Market
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 [...]
FSF Finally Wrestles Cisco into Compliance
Cisco has finally bowed to the demands of the Free Software Foundation (FSF) and resolved that suit for copyright infringement that FSF filed in December over Cisco playing fast and loose with its GPL- and LGPL-protected code. Cisco will pay FSF an unspecified amount for its sins and FSF will drop its suit, the first [...]
Voltaire Joins the Anti-Cisco Mob
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. [...]
Cisco Buys Tidal Software
Buttressing its move into servers in search of a new revenue stream, network equipment maven Cisco is buying privately held Tidal Software for roughly $105 million in cash and retention incentives, hardly a rounding error for the wealthy Cisco. Cisco says Tidal’s intelligent application management and automation solutions will advance its data center aspirations and [...]
Cisco Takes its Long Shot at Morphing into IT’s El Supremo
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; [...]