Cisco Survey Finds Business Leaders Back Cloud Collaboration Tools; Eric Schoch Comments
Cisco selected Forbes Media to survey business executives and examine how they view cloud-based collaboration as tools to achieve business outcomes and communicate across borders. The “Collaborating in the Cloud” survey shows a majority of business leaders believe cloud helps derive business results, cross-time zone partnerships, processes and new innovations beyond information technology, Cisco said [...]
Cisco to Help Build University’s Biomedical Research Cloud; Nitin Kawale Comments
May 10, 2013 No Comment
A Cisco business unit will help a university build a cloud computing infrastructure for biomedical research that intends to help facilitate collaborations between industry, academia and government. Cisco Canada will contribute $2.1 million to McMaster University, with $1.6 million targeted for a health biosystems professorship over eight years and $500,000 to fund a bioinformatics research [...]
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Cisco has granted ActionPacked Networks a application visibility and control compatibility certification through a developer network Cisco started to certify third-party software vendors, Network World reported Thursday. Zeus Kerravala writes ActionPacked was the first company to complete the interoperability verification testing program created by Cisco earlier this year Cisco’s program tests the response time of [...]
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Nimble Inc. has developed a validated reference architecture to support private clouds that implement Microsoft Corp.’s Windows Server and System Center on Cisco Systems Inc.‘s unified computing system, according to an Eweek article. Nimble’s Storage SmartStack receives certification to accommodate up to 75 virtual machines hosted by Microsoft’s fast track reference architecture comprising three-rack-unit Nimble storage [...]
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Cisco is acquiring mobile communications firm Ubiquisys Ltd. for $310 million as part of a strategy to expand its mobility services portfolio. Ubiquisys, a U.K.-based privately held company, offers small-cell radio stations that aim to transmit data within a small area to improve cellular service, Dow Jones Newswires reports. Kelly Ahuja, Cisco mobility business group general [...]
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Government contracting firms are constantly partnering with academia and other organizations to develop state-of-the-art technologies for government and private industry. These same firms also invest in smaller companies to aid them in developing key pieces of tech that larger companies can use to build new offerings. Accenture and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have formed [...]
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Cisco will buy cloud computing company SolveDirect for an undisclosed amount in a move aimed at growing its cloud computing products portfolio, Investor’s Business Daily reports. Hilton Romanski, Cisco’s head of global mergers and acquisitions, said the company is buying SolveDirect for its initiative aimed at helping customers transition to the cloud, Pete Barlas writes. [...]
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Cisco has completed the sale of Linksys to Belkin for an undisclosed amount, according to a Cnet article. Belkin will now manage and maintain Linksys’ technologies, including its routers and the smart WiFi portfolio and services as a separate brand and product portfolio. “The Linksys portfolio will continue to exist and evolve to include even richer user experiences [...]
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Cisco is collaborating with Arbor Networks to deploy a unified threat management offering for helping defend against distributed denial-of-service attacks. Tom Bienkowski, Arbor director of product marketing at Arbor, told NetworkWorld.com Cisco will embed Arbor’s Peakflow SP Threat Management System into a module on its carrier-class CRS-1 routers. Ellen Messmer writes the companies are aiming [...]
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Cisco will provide its audio and video conferencing technology to Barcelona City Hall in Spain in a moved aimed at connecting citizens to public services via a remote connection. The pilot project will use Cisco TelePresence and collaboration technologies with the goal of helping citizens carry out administrative processes without visiting public offices in person, [...]
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