Cisco, Dell and Lenovo reveal Ice Lake servers
Following the announcement of the new Intel Ice Lake server processors, several manufacturers have unveiled their updated server line-up. In large part, these are modifications to existing servers in order to be able to work with the new processors.
Cisco comes with three new models: the UCS B20...
Cisco introduces subscription model for hardware
Cisco has introduced Cisco Plus. This is a subscription model that allows customers to purchase Cisco equipment and pay for it periodically.
Cisco Plus makes it possible to purchase computer, network and storage equipment via an as-a-service model. In combination with Cisco's growing software po...
Cisco integrates ThousandEyes in switches and AppDynamics
During Cisco Live, Cisco traditionally makes many announcements. One of the most interesting announcements today is the one about ThousandEyes, which it acquired last year. Cisco has now integrated that company's monitoring solutions into some of its own products. These include integration into the...
Cisco and HashiCorp integrate Intersight and Terraform for multi-cloud
Cisco announced that it is integrating its cloud-based data centre management service Intersight, with HashiCorp's multi-cloud infrastructure automation service Terraform. The integration will give Intersight customers an easy way to automate and provision multi-cloud infrastructure using an infras...
Google announces Network Connectivity Center
Google Cloud has announced its Network Connectivity Center. It is a tool that allows users to manage networks in the cloud and on-premise. This should simplify the management of hybrid cloud and multi-cloud environments.
Users of the Network Connectivity Center can use the tool to connect to VPN...
Privacy is about more than data and compliance
Recently, we published a report on the Data Privacy Benchmark Study by Cisco. The main theme of the results of that study is that the events surrounding the corona pandemic have led to a higher appreciation of the concept of privacy among organisations worldwide. We spoke with Michel Schaalje, Secu...
Cisco: importance of privacy increased during Covid-19 pandemic
During the Covid-19 pandemic, the burden on personal privacy increased considerably. To prevent the spread of the virus, people had to share personal information and became more dependent on digital communication.
This emerged from a study conducted by Cisco among 4400 security experts in 25 dif...
Cisco unveils Catalyst 8000 for 5G and virtualization in enterprises
Cisco launched four new devices in what it’s calling the Catalyst 8000 Edge series. The devices include two virtual CPE Edge units, a 5G cellular gateway, and a heavy-duty aggregator router. All of these tools support SD-WAN networking.
The company unveiled the Catalyst 8000 family last Octobe...
Cisco closes $4.5 billion deal to acquire chipmaker Acacia
The deal amounts to nearly $2 billion more than an offer Cisco made to the chipmaker in 2019.
This week, Cisco announced an amendment to the definitive merger agreement under which they had previously agreed to acquire Acacia. Under the terms of the amended agreement, Cisco would acquire Ac...
Cisco sues Acacia for backing out of acquisition deal
Acacia terminated their agreement after failing to receive timely regulatory approval in China.
Cisco today asked a Delaware court to stop Acacia from terminating an acquisition agreement the companies had signed in 2019.
That year Cisco agreed to buy publicly traded Acacia for approximately ...
‘Cisco cancels smart city products’
Cisco is said to have stopped developing its Kinetic for City programme. Due to the effects of the coronavirus, it would no longer be feasible at this time.
A Cisco spokesman told The Wall Street Journal that the company "recently decided to stop sales and eventually support for the Cisco Kineti...
Cisco buys Dashbase to enhance its AppDynamics platform
Acquisition of the events and logs analytics startup will strengthen Cisco's application monitoring platform.
Cisco Systems has announced this week that it will acquire events and logs analytics startup Dashbase. The companies did not disclose the details of the deal.
Dashbase makes a softwar...