Cisco pays 20 times the going rate, but will $US1.4 billion Internet of Things acquisition pay off?
“The price premium reflects the importance to Cisco of completing its IoT stack."
“The price premium reflects the importance to Cisco of completing its IoT stack."
“Vendors will not benefit equally from spending allocations in 2016.”
“IoT has become a business imperative across the globe."
Cisco Systems plans to acquire Internet of Things platform company, Jasper Technologies, for more than $US1.4 billion, giving the networking giant an even larger role in enterprises' growing use of IoT.
“Many SMBs are keeping their head in the sand, but any computer is a target..."
Cisco today announced a new monitoring tool named Cloud Consumption as a Service that collects network traffic information and presents IT officials with a peek into any use of public-cloud based services within a company.
Cisco Systems has launched an internal code review following Juniper's disclosure last week of unauthorised spying code found in its enterprise firewall products.
“Big Data analytics is the difference between being proactive and reactive."
Cisco Systems is reinventing its collaboration tools from the bottom up, turning the lowly Spark text-messaging app into a cloud-based platform that includes videoconferencing and the core features of an enterprise phone system.
“Cisco’s collaboration business is already seeing the impact of this trend, with 17 percent year-over-year growth in the first quarter of fiscal year 2016."
Cisco is working to build the confidence of prospective customers in its products, two years after the NSA spying disclosures seeded doubt, particularly in China.
Robbins favors small, internal "start-up" teams over funding and acquiring companies
Ericsson and Cisco Systems are partnering to develop and sell next-generation networks -- Ericsson because it's cheaper than buying in or building the equipment itself, and Cisco because it's quicker than buying Ericsson.
“Organisations that are seizing the digital opportunity need security everywhere."
“The enterprise business is not to be underestimated.”