Category: Cisco
Cisco to bolster cloud offerings through acquisition of newScale
Cisco plans to build its cloud services capabilities by its acquisition of newScale, a cloud portal software developer with about 2 million users worldwide. NewScale is a privately held company that develops software which enables businesses to more efficiently provision resources across their IT environments. Through its service catalog and self-service portal, newScale enables IT [...]
Cisco Kills Cloud Computing Email Service
Email is a tough business. Just ask networking giant Cisco. After just over a year of trying to make a market for its own Linux-powered hosted email service, Cisco is calling it quits. “The product has been well received, but we’ve since learned that customers have come to view their email as a mature and [...]
Cisco, VMware and EMC coalition redesign their channel blueprint
The Virtual Computing Environment (VCE) company has returned to drawing board to design a reseller friendly go-to-market strategy that also involves distributors. The coalition was formed by Cisco, EMC and VMware in the summer of 2009 to punt private cloud building blocks dubbed Vblock and was later joined by Acadia, the venture between EMC and [...]
Cisco buys CoreOptics
Cisco plans to acquire privately held CoreOptics, a maker of optical networking technology designed to help carriers handle an expected surge in IP traffic driven partly by the adoption of cloud computing. CoreOptics’ digital signal processing technology is intended to help service providers scale their IP networks while keeping costs down by making transmission more [...]
SAP plus Cisco plus VMware plus EMC equals cloud computing
At the ongoing SAP Sapphire NOW conference taking place in both Orlando, Florida and Frankfurt, Germany, SAP announced that it has partnered with Cisco, EMC and VMware to help promote the use of cloud computing in the business community. Through the development of advanced SaaS business applications and reliable cloud-based data centers, the companies hope [...]
Capellas picked to run the Virtual Computing Environment coalition
Michael Capellas, former CEO of Compaq, MCI, and First Data, has a new job as the front man for the Virtual Computing Environment coalition.
Cisco and Cloud Computing
Cisco Systems Inc. is a California based communications and networking technologies developer and vendor. Founded in 1984, Cisco has, in a period of less than three decades, grown to become a force to be reckoned with and is, as of today, one of the most valuable companies on the globe. In recent years, Cisco System’s [...]
