Black Box Corporation announced that it has achieved a Customer Satisfaction Excellence Gold Star from Cisco for the third consecutive year. “Black Box puts tremendous focus on servicing our customers and making sure they receive the best support possible. We are honored to be recognized by Cisco for our success in customer satisfaction,” stated Peter [...]
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Earlier this week at VMworld 2011, VMware and Cisco announced new technology innovations and enhancements to their combined virtualization solutions that will help customers accelerate their journey to the cloud. The companies unveiled a breakthrough in network virtualization, VXLAN, which will broaden the mobility range of virtual machines across multiple data centers and cloud environments. [...]
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Today at VMworld 2011, CSC announced its virtual desktop portfolio expansion which will now include a new series based upon VMware View 5 running on the Vblock platform from VCE. The expansion offers more ways in which users with differing work styles can access their applications and date from a wide arrange of networked devices [...]
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Cisco today announced its acquisition of privately-held Versly. Versly is a San Francisco based company that integrates collaboration capabilities via a pug-in into Microsoft Office applications.Versly simplifies the way people work by enabling more effective collaboration around content in docucuments, spreadsheets, presentations and emails. “Collaboration is a top priority at Cisco. With this acquisition we’re [...]
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Cisco has unveiled the Cisco 819 Integrated Services Router Machine-to-Machine gateway enabling business innovation and productivity by extending corporate network services to billions of non-traditional IP devices. According to Cisco, this product is a delivery of its vision for the “internet of things.” In integrating network capabilities into non-traditional IP devices, M2M provides a connectivity [...]
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Cisco announced yesterday its intent to acquire AXIOSS software assets and associated employees for $31 million. According to Cisco, the acquisition will enable an extension of network and service management technologies across its next-generation IP network platforms and will allow for the quick and efficient launch of data, new video, mobility and cloud services to [...]
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The National Cyber Security Alliance announced today David Hoffman, director of security policy and global privacy officer at Intel Corporation, has been named to the organization’s board of directors. NCSA is a nonprofit public-private partnership focused on cybersecurity awareness and education. Hoffman is an expert in cybersecurity issues and will support the organization’s mission to [...]
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A Kansas man who raked in a million dollars from selling counterfeit Cisco computer equipment has been sentenced to 33 months in federal prison, the FBI’s Kansas City division said. Christopher Myers, 42, of Leawood, Kan., pleaded guilty to conspiring to bring goods into the United States by false statements, to smuggling goods into the [...]
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Cyber crime is not the cash cow it once was, according to Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO) whose recent research examined the cyber underground. Speaking yesterday at a press event at in San Bruno, Calif., security researcher Pat Peterson said last year saw a turning point in the fight against mass scams and criminal profits from [...]
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As director of cyber programs at Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO), Bill Cooper is tasked with cybersecurity strategy, solution development, partner alliances and business development within the firm’s federal business area. Cooper re-joined Cisco Systems after a nearly five-year stint at Teradata Government Systems, where he was responsible for all sales to federal and state [...]
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