Friday, November 22

Tag: Cisco

Cisco acquires ThousandEyes, Moving from Hardware to Cloud Computing
1Jun By AdityaNo Comments
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Cisco acquires ThousandEyes, Moving from Hardware to Cloud Computing

Cisco acquires privately-held cloud-based platform ThousandEyes. Headquartered in San Francisco, CA. ThousandEyes Internet and Cloud intelligence platform deliver deep visibility and insights into the digital delivery of applications and services over the Internet. The last few years have seen a rapid acceleration of Cloud adoption, widespread use of SaaS applications, and a reliance on the Internet and networks outside of enterprise control. This increased dependence on the Internet and other third-party infrastructures, compounded over the past several months during the COVID-19 pandemic, substantially reduces the ability for enterprise IT teams to predict, visualize and control operational behavior. The result is often a chaotic and unmanageable IT environment th...
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Tech Giant Cisco to Acquire Silicon Photonics Chip Maker Luxtera
19Dec By Gauri SinghNo Comments
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Tech Giant Cisco to Acquire Silicon Photonics Chip Maker Luxtera

The popular technology company Cisco has reportedly announced its intent to acquire Luxtera. The deal has been valued $660 million. Luxtera, which was founded in 2001 and raised over $130 million, will give Cisco  a photonic solution for that data networking problem. Rob Salvagno, head of Cisco’s M&A and venture investment team sees a company that can help modernize Cisco’s networking equipment. “That’s why today we announced our intent to acquire Luxtera, Inc., a privately-held semiconductor company that uses silicon photonics technology to build integrated optics capabilities for webscale and enterprise data centers, service provider market segments, and other customers. Luxtera’s technology, design and manufacturing innovation significantly improves perform...
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Cisco & Tech Mahindra to Jointly Launch Digital Tech Experience Centre
29Nov By Gauri SinghNo Comments
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Cisco & Tech Mahindra to Jointly Launch Digital Tech Experience Centre

Tech Mahindra and Cisco have together launched a state-of-the-art digital experience centre in one of the leading cities of India, Bengaluru. The facility, located at Tech Mahindra’s campus here, will showcase use cases for digitization in manufacturing, retail and smart cities such as asset visibility and yard tracking, city surveillance and incident management, smart lighting, waste management, environmental monitoring, city Wi-fi, machine connectivity and other areas. Tech Mahindra said the centre, which was inaugurated by C P Gurnani, chief executive officer and managing director, Tech Mahindra and Sameer Garde, President, Cisco India, and SAARC, would create a simulated environment of digital technology solutions to showcase joint capabilities in implementation and operations. I...
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Cisco Ties up With AWS to Help Businesses Run Apps in The Cloud
9Nov By Gauri SinghNo Comments
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Cisco Ties up With AWS to Help Businesses Run Apps in The Cloud

Cisco Systems has reportedly tied up with Amazon's Amazon Web Services for the purpose of offering software tools that would make it easier for Cisco's customers to use Amazon's data centers to run their business applications. This step has been taken as a part of a push at Cisco, one of the biggest suppliers of the routers and switches that send data across computer networks. Also, the basic motive is to gain more revenue from software and stay current with longtime business customers that are seeking to do more work with cloud computing companies like Amazon, Alphabet's Google Cloud unit or Microsoft's Azure. "The way we like to think about it at Cisco is, we're growing and adding a software business to a very important hardware business," Kip Compton, Cisco's senior vice president o...
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Tech Giant Cisco Plans to Step Up Investment in India
15Sep By Gauri SinghNo Comments
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Tech Giant Cisco Plans to Step Up Investment in India

One of the biggest technology companies Cisco has announced that it is stepping up investments in the Indian market. This is being done as part of the second phase of its 'Country Digital Acceleration' (CDA) programme. With this, the company will focus on accelerating innovation and entrepreneurship, 5G use cases for citizen services as well as transportation modernization. Cisco claims that India is among its few markets where the company has made the second round of investment as part of its CDA programme. "India is an important market for us. While we are not disclosing the amount we would be investing, it is clear that we are betting on India as a key market. We are adding four more states to our existing initiatives towards areas like innovation, smart cities. We have also signed ...
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Reliance Jio and Cisco Systems are Likely to Extent their Partnership
10Sep By Gauri SinghNo Comments
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Reliance Jio and Cisco Systems are Likely to Extent their Partnership

Reliance Jio Infocomm and Cisco Systems that is based in the US are looking to extend their partnership to tap the Rs 50,000-crore strong enterprise market. This is expected to be done with a services portfolio which the Mukesh Ambani-owned telecom firm is planning to launch commercially soon. It was in 2012 that both these companies entered into a strategic partnership across multiple technology areas including deployment of voice over long-term evolution (VoLTE) -- a fourth-generation (4G) technology-based networks -- for its consumer business. “As they (Jio) make enterprise move, Cisco would start working with them closely for the intuitive network, collaboration, cloud and security,” stated an industry source. According to the statements, Reliance Jio would be using the company’s ...
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Amazon Web Services Eyes to Sell its Networking Switches
14Jul By Gauri SinghNo Comments
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Amazon Web Services Eyes to Sell its Networking Switches

Amazon’s cloud service business ‘Amazon Web Services’ is eyeing to sell its own networking switches to the business customers. Amazon Web Services could price its white-box switches 70-80% less than comparable switches from networking giant Cisco, as reported by one of the persons with direct knowledge of the unit's plan. The company expects to launch the switches in the next 18 months. It stated that the devices will include open-source software and unbranded hardware known as "white-box" switches and will be introduced with built-in connections to AWS cloud services, such as servers and storage. Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers reliable, scalable, and inexpensive cloud computing services. It is a subsidiary of Amazon.com and offers on-demand cloud computing platforms to individuals...
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Cisco To Acquire July Systems To Boost Its WiFi Platform
20Jun By Gauri SinghNo Comments
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Cisco To Acquire July Systems To Boost Its WiFi Platform

The multinational tech firm Cisco Systems Inc. has announced that It is in the advanced stage to acquire a mobile application platform provider called July Systems. This step will assist the company in strengthening the WiFi platform of the enterprise with the aim to provide much better indoor location services capabilities, among other offerings. July Systems is a California and Bengaluru based company which is among the top WiFi analytics companies. Founded in 2001, July Systems is a leader and pioneer in cloud-based mobile experience and location services platforms. The company's platform and mobility solutions are used by companies including CNN, ESPN, Intel, Toys"R"Us, CBS, Fox, and NBC Universal. We plan to add July Systems’ platform and business context capabilities to provide a...
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Cisco India President Dinesh Malkani Quits
7Jul By Press Trust of IndiaNo Comments
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Cisco India President Dinesh Malkani Quits

Cisco India and SAARC President Dinesh Malkani has put in his papers at the networking solutions giant to take on a leadership role at a startup. Malkani will continue in his role until July 31 and remain associated with Cisco till the end of September, according to sources. The development comes at a time when Cisco is betting big on the 'Digital India' wave in the country. The company is engaged in 50 digitisation projects and is working with six states on various digitisation initiatives. When contacted, Cisco confirmed the development. "Dinesh has played a key role in driving our growth, talent and digital transformation initiatives in India... This is a perfect time for a new leader to build on that foundation," Cisco Asia-Pacific and Japan President Irving Tan said in an email...
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Cisco Open Its First Global Digital Experience Centre in India
10Jun By AdityaNo Comments
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Cisco Open Its First Global Digital Experience Centre in India

American hardware major Cisco today said it is witnessing a jump in demand by Indian banks since the demonetisation move, which made it open its first global digital experience centre here. "Overall we see a significant ramp-up requirements are coming from them, especially since November last year. That is where we have also seen growth," Cisco Indias president Dinesh Malkani told reporters here. He said digital solutions are "top of the mind" even for the state-run lenders, who are wanting solutions on a variety of aspects. The company has nine innovation centres globally at places like San Jose, London, Tokyo and Berlin, but this is a global first where it has launched a dedicated digital experience centre targeted at the banking, insurance and financial services sector. A co...
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Cisco to Acquire Indian Origin CEO Led Startup For $610 Million
4May By AnkitaNo Comments
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Cisco to Acquire Indian Origin CEO Led Startup For $610 Million

American technology giant Cisco has said it will pay USD 610 million in cash to acquire a networking start-up led by an Indian-origin software industry veteran. Cisco will buy Viptela, a privately held software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) company based in San Jose, a move that will expand its portfolio. Viptela CEO Praveen Akkiraju, a University of Madras and Harvard Business School alumnus said, "the companys fabric, as it relates to SD-WAN and cloud networking, fits in as an important piece of Ciscos Enterprise Networking strategy which is driving an industry-wide transition to a software centric architecture and business model." Viptela was founded by 2012 by former Cisco engineers, some of them hailing from the Indian sub-continent. Cisco will buy Viptela for USD 610 mil...
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