All Posts Tagged With: "Cisco"
Industry Moves: Christofer Hoff Joins Cisco
We almost missed it, but apparently mr. Christofer Hoff has joined the Cisco Data Center Solutions team.
9Jun2009 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedIBM Walks Away From Talks Over Potential Sun Acquisition
IBM has withdrawn its $7 billion bid for Sun Microsystems today (Sunday), reports the NY Times, who confirmed the collapse of the talks based on a statement from an unnamed source while several other media, including the Wall Street Journal and ZDNet, were still speculating.
6Apr2009 | Robin Wauters | 1 comment | ContinuedExclusive - Cisco’s Unified Computing Platform: The Details
Today Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) will unveil its long-awaited server line, one of the building blocks that was still missing from their Unified Computing vision.
16Mar2009 | Toon Vanagt | 3 comments | ContinuedEMC/VMW Acquisition By Cisco Imminent?
Great field work on Virtualization.info today about the fact that investors are buying heaps of VMware stock, signaling that something is up.
12Feb2009 | Robin Wauters | 2 comments | ContinuedCisco Plans Bold Move Into Server Business, Enters Arena With HP And IBM
According to the NY Times, Cisco Systems is planning a big push into the server market, essentially entering into competition with its historical partners HP and IBM (who declined to comment on the story).
20Jan2009 | Robin Wauters | 1 comment | ContinuedCisco Partners With VMware For Its MDS SANs
As part of its Data Center 3.0 strategy, Cisco is collaborating with VMware to deliver a tested and validated solution for Cisco MDS storage area networks (SANs) designed specifically to help customers improve the security, scalability and management of storage networks attached to VMware environments.
10Nov2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedIntel Cuts VMware Stake In Half
While Cisco is increasing its stake in VMware, Intel is reducing it. The company plans to sell the bulk of those shares on Tuesday, according to a regulatory filing.
4Nov2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedCisco Ups Stake In VMware
Cisco announced yesterday that it will acquire an increased equity stake in VMware, purchasing 500,000 shares of VMware Class A common stock currently held by Intel for approximately $13.3M.
2Nov2008 | Robin Wauters | 1 comment | ContinuedCisco Teams Up With QLogic to Offer End-to-End Virtualization Technology
QLogic today announced it has set up a partnership with Cisco to offer end-to-end virtualization technology, using Qlogic adapters that allow end-users to realize the benefits of quality of service capabilities in standards-based virtual fabric environments.
13Oct2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedVideo interview with George Kurian, Vice President and General Manager of the Application Delivery Business Unit at Cisco (Part 2/2)
In this second part of our interview with George Kurian, he explains about the capabilities of VFrame; being Cisco’s system’s management and provisioning that is aimed at the virtualized network and helps to put the virtual puzzle together. Cisco recognizes the data center as a heterogeneous multivendor environment and plans to supports 3rd party technologies in the future. Cisco sees the notion of what a computer is today, getting truly blended closely with the network as interconnect speeds go up dramatically over the next two to three years.
14Sep2008 | Toon Vanagt | 1 comment | ContinuedVideo interview with George Kurian, Vice President and General Manager of the Application Delivery Business Unit at Cisco (Part 1/2)
In this first part of our interview with George Kurian at Cisco’s headquarters we get to know how Cisco looks at Virtualization in the datacenter from three different sets of product capabilities: pervasive networking platforms, services and VFrame (provisioning and orchestration tools). From his position as the vice president and general manager of the Application Delivery Business Unit at Cisco, he sees the need for server virtualization to be complemented with virtualization capabilities in the network and explains how his teams are engineering the network to be a facilitator for all the virtues Virtualization brings. The goal for George’s data center technology group is to make the network aware of the new atomic unit in the data center: the Virtual Machine and no longer the physical server or port. He goes on pointing to the Nexus series and new introductions for the Catalyst series with capabilities to support some of these (r)evolutionary trends in the data center…
14Sep2008 | Toon Vanagt | 0 comments | ContinuedTrading Activity In NetApp, VMware Spikes
According to a report from the Wall Street Journal, stocks of both NetApp and VMware have been trading at unusual volumes yesterday.
28Aug2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | Continued![[image]](http://mowser.com/img?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.mofuse.com%2Fimages%2Fbadges%2Fbadge_blue.png)
