Networking specialist Cisco has reported a $900m (£579m) year on year rise on its second quarter profits – a 44 per cent increase. The firm reported net sales of $12.1bn in its second quarter, which is a rise of five per cent ...
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Networking hardware giant Cisco is to acquire privately held network software provider Intucell for about $475m (£300m). Intucell, headquartered in Ra'anana, Israel, was founded in 2008 and provides self-optimising network (SON) ...
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A good IT capacity management policy has"avoided 20 major incidents"at BSkyB in recent months,according to the company's head of capacity,Alan Collier. Further reading Storage capacity slowdown can be buffered by virtualisation,says ...
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The first tests of EE's 4G network showed less than half of Manchester city centre was covered by the high-speed mobile network and 4G connections were inconsistent. Only 42.2% of test locations had 4G access, while outside Manchester ...
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cc today announced that its mobile device management (MDM) tool now supports the new OS X Mountain Lion operating system for Macs, released on Wednesday. The company cited fast adoption of Macs in business as the reason it moved out of its ...
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Cisco revealed yesterday it intends to acquire Meraki, a vendor of technology for cloud based management of wireless LAN, security appliances, and mobile devices for US$1.2 billion in cash and retention-based incentives. The acquisition ...
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Cisco is planning to acquire network planning tools vendor Cariden Technologies for$141 million,in its third announced acquisition this month. Cariden makes capacity planning and management tools for IP/MPLS,or multi-protocol label ...
A good IT capacity management policy has "avoided 20 major incidents" at BSkyB in recent months, according to the company's head of capacity, Alan Collier. Further reading Storage capacity slowdown can be buffered by virtualisation, ...
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Cisco futurist Dave Evans has predicted that the technology to "print" food will be available in the relatively near future. Answering questions in a Twitter interview this afternoon under the hastag '#AskFuturist', Evans provided a ...
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Networking hardware giant Cisco is to acquire privately held Meraki for $1.2bn (GBP 755m). Meraki, which was founded in 2006 and has offices in New York, London and Mexico, offers mid-market customers easy-to-deploy on-premise networking ...
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A taste of Cisco's acquisitions The threat from software-defined networking(SDN)Cisco diversifies portfolio Acquisitions more cost-effective than R&D Extending customer base and innovation There is nothing unusual about an industry ...
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Network equipment supplier Cisco is buying US cloud networking firm Meraki in a$1.2bn deal. Cisco,which is keen to raise its profile in cloud computing,said the acquisition will help accelerate its evolution to software-centric offerings ...
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IDG News Service-Cisco said Sunday it intends to acquire Meraki,a vendor of technology for cloud based management of wireless LAN,security appliances,and mobile devices for US$1.2 billion in cash and retention-based incentives. The ...
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Jewellery chain Beaverbrooks is extending its in-store wireless network to support its mobile till strategy. The connection from Meraki Wireless LAN will support netbooks used by staff to display product details and the company's bespoke ...
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