Back in December I asked “Does Cisco Still Love The Enterprise?” Well, it appears to be spending it’s money elsewhere these days. The much rumoured Pure Digital (Flip Video) In Acquisition has taken place, as Cisco buys it’s way into Apple territory.
So, why should business IT folk worry? Well, it isn’t for the reasons you think. [...]

This did actually make me smile. Nortel’s energy calculator has obviously ruffled some feathers over at Cisco. They have posted this response on youtube:

Actually, getting real power consumption figures for network kit is very tricky. Experiments here suggest that consumption varies by use (both traffic/processor load and what is plugged in). But at least we [...]

Cisco Systems has unveiled a number of initiatives to help it’s channel partners stay afloat, so they should still be there when you need them. Via channel publication,  Microscope:
In a keynote at its Channel Exchange event in Lisbon, Edison Peres, senior vice president, world wide channels go to market group at Cisco, said that it was still [...]

Cisco has completed its Jabber Acquisition (story via xchange magazine). That means Cisco can embed presence and messaging services into their offerings - jabber traffic coming to a network near you!
Cisco had much of this technology in theory, but Jabber adds global scale to the feature set. Jabber will be a part of the Cisco Collaboration Software Group [...]

When big guns from Sun Microsystems and Cisco Systems start up a networking company, it is probably sensible to pay attention. Andy Bechtolsheim (of Sun) and Jayshree Ullal (from Cisco) are the two leading lights behind Arista Networks, which started shipping products in May.
Arista Networks is making 10 Gigabit switches. It is a space that is already surprisingly crowded, [...]