Showing posts with label Cisco. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cisco. Show all posts

Monday, November 19, 2012

Cisco Buys Meraki For $1.2 Billion

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Nov. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Cisco Inc. agreed to pay $1.2 billion for closely held Meraki Inc., adding technology that helps businesses manage Wi-Fi networks remotely and expanding its lineup of products for mid-sized customers.

Cisco, the world’s largest maker of computer-networking equipment, is using a combination of cash and retention-based incentives to pay for the acquisition, the San Jose, California- based company said yesterday in a statement.

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Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Hewlett-Packard: Big Plans To Knock The Socks Off Cisco And Dell

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The rivalry between HP and Cisco has to rank among the biggest and baddest in the IT world.

Cisco often slings dirt at HP, calling it names (the "good enough" network), running demonstrations of HP gear compared to Cisco's, and writing trash talking blog posts.

We asked Mike Banic, vice president of marketing for HP Networking, to tell us how HP plans to compete with Cisco in the coming months.

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