Cisco sued again by services company
Independent service organization Multiven this week filed another antitrust complaint against Cisco alleging again that the networking king abuses its dominant position in the market by denying opportunities for third-parties to service Cisco gear. Read more
Cisco Fellow lands at Nicira
The industry is awaiting the official debut of Nicira, a stealthy network virtualization start-up backed by Andreessen Horowitz, among other investors. Nicira is fresh off of landing a Cisco Fellow as its chief service provider architect, according to AllThingsD. Read more
Cisco CEO says Russia, China top US for business
Is Russia better for business and a better place to do business than the US? Cisco CEO John Chambers thinks so. Read more
Fear the tablet: Cisco survey
Fear the personal device at work. Your IT manager does. Read more
Another reason for Cisco to pound its chest
Never one to pass up an opportunity to toot its own horn, Cisco is celebrating a milestone... and not in its traditional stronghold of switching and routing. In just over two years, Cisco has landed over 10,000 customers for its Unified Computing System (UCS) blade server platform, the controversial product that alienated longtime partners HP and IBM. Read more
Cisco issues advisory for wireless gear
Cisco has issued a security advisory on some of its wireless and unified communications products in response to attack tools that exploit a weakness in a protocol they use. The weakness was detailed by US-CERT in a Vulnerability Note last month. Read more
OpenFlow start-up aiming at Cisco's dominance
OpenFlow start-up Big Switch Networks is submitting its controller software to the open-source community in order to catalyze an ecosystem of application developers, according to GigaOm. Read more
Cisco gains SAN share as Brocade looks for buyer
Has Brocade finally found a buyer? Reports that it was close tickled the company's stock this week.
Reuters, citing "sources familiar with the matter," said Brocade has received first-round bids from a half dozen potential private equity buyers. The report sent the company's stock up over 10% on Monday, before it settled back and closed the day up 35 cents. Read more
Cisco, others may see a 4% hike in IT spending
Gartner has lowered its IT spending forecast for 2012 down to 3.7% from 4.6%, meaning companies like Cisco and its competitors will be fighting harder for fewer bucks. Gartner says that growth rates in computing hardware, enterprise software, IT services and telecom equipment and services, will slow this year due to a series of factors: Read more
Cisco nemesis facing a mixed quarter?
Juniper's enterprise business is tracking well but the compnay still may face some challenges in 2012 as four major new products ramp. For Cisco, this is good news - enterprises are spending, which means they'll buy Cisco stuff as well as Juniper's - and its rival's product transition may also open up some opportunity. Read more
CEO of Cisco rival eyed for top Yahoo! spot
Juniper CEO Kevin Johnson is reportedly being eyed by the Yahoo! board as a possible CEO candidate. AllThingsDigital posts that the leading candidate for the vacant post is Hulu's CEO, Jason Kilar, but that Juniper's Johnson and online advertising entrepreneur Brian McAndrews are also under consideration. Read more
Cisco a WLAN market "champion"
Cisco, along with HP and Aruba, was listed as a market "champion" in WLANs this week by Canadian market research firm Info-Tech Group. And in the "just a remarkable coincidence" dept., the three champions are the three market leaders in Dell'Oro Group's Q3, 2011, WLAN tabulations. Read more
Cisco continues to restructure internally
Cisco continues to tinker with its organizational structure, ever after completing a major restructuring begun last summer. This week, Cisco revamped its engineering operations to further streamline them and improve execution against company strategy, according to a blog on the Cisco site. Read more
Cisco study finds kids just don't get it
Seven out of 10 young employees frequently ignore IT policies, and one in four is a victim of identity theft before the age of 30, according to yet another study released by Cisco this week. Actually, this one is the final installation of a three-part Connected World Technology Report issued by the company. Read more
Cisco storms back in switching
Cisco had a "blowout quarter" in Ethernet switching, growing revenue 18% in Q3 and upping its share to 68% of the total market, according to Infonetics Research. This, after Cisco had a few down quarters from heightened competition, a nettlesome product transition and operational distractions. Read more
Cisco flying into the clouds
So Cisco has made two recent moves to aggressively go after as much cloudshare as it can get. The first was naming CIO Rebecca Jacoby to head up its new Cloud and Systems Management Technology Group, which is an amalgamation of three previously separate business units chartered to increase the company's presence in IaaS, PaaS and SaaS markets. Read more
Cisco a no show in 40G Ethernet market report
Market research firm Dell'Oro Group recently began tracking the 40G Ethernet market as 10G takes hold and grows, necessitating 40G uplinks, aggregation switches and core modules. And the market leaders are IBM and Extreme Networks. Read more
Cisco pulls Puppet's purse strings
Cisco has invested in Puppet Labs, a maker of IT automation software. Actually, Cisco was but one new investor in Puppet Labs' C round of financing, which totaled $8.5 million.
Other new investors in the company include Google Ventures and VMware. They join existing investors Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, True Ventures, and Radar Partners in the round. Read more
Cisco tells HP to lose that suit
HP should stop suing employees that jump ship for HP competitors. That's the viewpoint of Cisco, anyway, after HP sued a few former employees for going to work there.
In a blog on its site last Wednesday, Cisco challenged HP to cease litigation against employees who leave the company to work elsewhere. The latest episode - and the third in the last two years, according to Cisco - was two weeks ago, when an employee who had worked at HP for two decades moved to California to join Cisco. Read more
Cisco rival Brocade hitting stride in Ethernet
Brocade's fortunes are rising in Ethernet switching. After a few initial hiccups following the Foundry acquisition, Brocade is seeing solid traction. Read more
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