All Posts Tagged With: "Cisco Systems"
Andreessen, Horowitz Back Cloud Computing Startup WebappVM
A new cloud computing startup funded and advised by legendary entrepreneurs turned investors Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz plans to help enterprise companies deploy and manage applications in the cloud.
29Jun2009 | Robin Wauters | 2 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IBM has withdrawn its $7 billion bid for Sun Microsystems today (Sunday), reports the NY Times, who confirmed the collapse of the talks based on a statement from an unnamed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 | 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 | ContinuedThere We Go Again: EMC Shares Rise On Acquisition Rumors
This is one rumor that just keeps coming back: Reuters is reporting that EMC shares rose as much as 6.3 percent yesterday on market speculation that the world’s largest maker of corporate storage equipment could be acquired. The company stills holds a majority stake in virtualization juggernaut VMware.
31Jul2008 | Robin Wauters | 1 comment | ContinuedCisco’s John McCool Talks Virtualization
NetworkWorld published a great interview yesterday with John McCool, senior VP of data center, switching and security at Cisco. McCool sees a great future for virtualization around the company’s most successful product in its entire history, the Catalyst 6500 (and its successor, the Nexus 7000 Series, which was recently unveiled), combined with its own forray into virtualizing the data center with its Data Center 3.0 initiative.
11Jul2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedCisco Talks Up Data Center 3.0 Initiative, Wants To “Demistify Virtualization”
Cisco Systems today announced updates to several of its key products to accelerate applications in Data Center 3.0, Cisco’s vision for a virtualized data center tied together by a unified network fabric.
24Jun2008 | Robin Wauters | 2 comments | ContinuedCisco And EMC To Merge?
We love rumors. This time, it’s not about EMC selling off its majority stake in VMware to say, Intel. President and chief editor of TMC, Rich Tehrani, is throwing another sweet-sounding one into the air: an upcoming merger between Cisco and EMC.
19May2008 | Robin Wauters | 5 comments | Continued![[image]](http://mowser.com/img?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.mofuse.com%2Fimages%2Fbadges%2Fbadge_blue.png)
