Cisco Product Guide » Storage http://www.ciscoproductguide.com/blog A comprehensive guide to Cisco and its technology Mon, 02 Mar 2009 11:41:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 Cisco To Launch Products For Small Businesses http://www.ciscoproductguide.com/blog/2009/01/02/cisco-to-launch-products-for-small-businesses/ http://www.ciscoproductguide.com/blog/2009/01/02/cisco-to-launch-products-for-small-businesses/#comments Fri, 02 Jan 2009 13:53:37 +0000 Katie Bumper http://www.ciscoproductguide.com/blog/2009/01/02/cisco-to-launch-products-for-small-businesses/ Cisco will launch its first products developed specially for small businesses in January. The new products are for video surveillance, data storage and wireless office communications. Cisco said to reach small and medium businesses (SMBs), the company will embark on a campaign focusing on business capabilities and the benefits of complete solutions rather than on products and technologies. The six-month integrated campaign called “One Voice” comes on the back of Cisco’s recent announcement of a US$100 million investment in its global small business initiative.

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]]> http://www.ciscoproductguide.com/blog/2008/11/03/cisco-introduces-new-storage-optimization-solution/feed/ 0 Cisco could buy EMC, according to analyst http://www.ciscoproductguide.com/blog/2008/05/20/cisco-could-by-emc-according-to-analyst/ http://www.ciscoproductguide.com/blog/2008/05/20/cisco-could-by-emc-according-to-analyst/#comments Tue, 20 May 2008 20:16:17 +0000 Melissa Chang http://www.ciscoproductguide.com/blog/2008/05/20/cisco-could-by-emc-according-to-analyst/ EMC logo According to this article in Barron’s, Paul Wick, manager of the Seligman Communications and Information Fund, has made an interesting prediction about Cisco. According to Wick, Cisco is overdue to do a large deal – for example, going after EMC, the large corporate storage and software company. Barron’s predicts that this would be a deal in the mid-$40 billion range. From the article:

A big deal, yes, but one for which Cisco would get considerable value. EMC is a leader in enterprise storage; they also have assembled an impressive portfolio of software assets through a deliberate acquisition strategy, and now own Legato Systems (acquired in 2003), Documentum (another 2003 deal) and RSA Software (bought in 2006).

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