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Cisco software subscription strategies pay off

Cisco’s fiscal year 2018 results say deferred product revenue related to recurring software and subscription offers increased 23 percent over 2017. Cisco’s strategy of diversifying into a more software-optimized business is paying off – literally. The software differentiation was perhaps never more obvious than in its most recent set of year-end and fourth quarter results. … Read more

Google, Cisco amp-up enterprise cloud integration

Google and Cisco setting stage for Kubernetes hybrid cloud push. The joint Google and Cisco Kubernetes platform for enterprise customers should appear before the end of the year, and things are getting warm between the two companies ahead of that highly anticipated release. Cisco and Google last October teamed up to develop a Kubernetes hybrid-cloud … Read more

Cisco embraces Kubernetes, pushing container software into mainstream

Upgrades to Cisco AppDynamics and CloudCenter help troubleshoot problems and deploy apps in Kubernetes clusters. Cisco this week took big steps toward helping customers deploy, monitor and manage on-premises and public-cloud production-ready Kubernetes-based container applications. Kubernetes, originally designed by Google, is an open-source-based system for developing and orchestrating containerized applications. Containers can be deployed across … Read more