Cisco fights to keep alive its planned $2.6B purchase of optical-tech vendor Acacia
Cisco brokered a deal for Acacia in 2019 for approximately $2.6 billion to bolster its optical systems portfolio, and Acacia wants out. Cisco’s planned acquisition of Acacia Communications took a...
Cisco gains container security with Banzai Cloud buy
Banzai deal follows Cisco’s acquisition of cloud-native security startup Portshift. In its second cloud-native technology acquisition in as many months, Cisco is buying container security firm Banzai Cloud for an...
Cisco fortifies and simplifies its security portfolio with eye toward cloud, zero trust
Cisco expands its SecureX integrated security platform, which has gained 11,000 customers since June, and streamlines its renamed Cisco Secure portfolio. Simplifying security options for enterprise customers is a daunting...
Cisco extends SD-WAN options with AWS, Azure hybrid-cloud integration
New Cisco SD-WAN Cloud OnRamp features simplify access to multi-cloud services and provide better security and lower latency. Cisco has further broadened the cloud-integration options available to its SD-WAN customers with new...
Cisco open-source code boosts performance of Kubernetes apps over SD-WAN
Cisco’s Cloud-Native SD-WAN project marries SD-WANs to Kubernetes applications to cut down on the manual work needed to optimize latency and packet loss. Cisco has introduced an open-source project that...
Cisco CEO to accelerate as-a-service offerings, cut costs $1B-plus
Cisco plans to rely more heavily on selling products as services and will make 10-figure cost reductions to deal with a FY2020 revenue drop of 5% that it blames on...
Cisco urges patching flaws in data-center, SD-WAN gear
Cisco has issued a number of critical security advisories for its data center manager and SD-WAN offerings that customers should deal with now. Cisco has issued a number of critical...
Is COVID-19 vendor financing for enterprise gear a good deal?
IT vendors are offering billions in financial aid to keep enterprise IT sales from being canceled and partners afloat, but do they benefit customers? In the wake of coronavirus-related shutdowns...
Counterfeit Cisco switches raise network security alarms
F-Secure details enterprise security threats posed by counterfeit network gear. In a disconcerting event for IT security professionals, counterfeit versions of Cisco Catalyst 2960-X Series switches were discovered on an...
Cisco warns of Nexus switch security weakness
Cisco Nexus NX-OS software could be exploited to create a DOS attack. Cisco is telling customers of its Nexus core data-center switches to fix or work around a vulnerability that...