Cisco, EMC joint venture makes progress A month since its introduction, the joint data center venture between Cisco and EMC is percolating with activity before its starts business in the first quarter. Man lost $127M at casinos owned by Cisco customer, Harrah's Entertainment The Wall Street Journal is reporting that current Bay Area resident - Terrance Watanabe, lost a staggering $127 million during a single year at the Las Vegas casinos owned by a very important Cisco customer - Harrah's Entertainment (read the NetworkWorld story about Cisco signing a 10-year deal with Harrah's). As a former 5-year resident of Las Vegas, I'm amazed at the size of Watanabe's gambling... Cisco Completes Acquisition of Cloud Based ScanSafe ScanSafe is a best of breed software as a service "cloud" web security player. Given that most threats are now propagated via port 80/443 this technology is in high demand. ScanSafe offers several innovative features like SearchAhead. SearchAhead modifies search engine results that users receive (like google searches) and adds an ScanSafe securty level icon next to each search entry. This gives... Cisco, EMC JV preps for early Q1 launch The board of Acadia, the joint venture company formed by Cisco and EMC to train channel partners to sell private cloud infrastruture, is busily forming a managment team and filling out the employee ranks to commence operations in early Q1. Oracle, Sun, and the Identity Management Waiting Game This past April, Oracle shocked the technology world by announcing its intention to acquire industry icon Sun Microsystems. The deal was approved exactly 3 months later by the U.S. Department of Justice but as of this writing, the European Union has yet to sanction the merger. Apparently there is some concern on the Continent about Oracle's ongoing support for the MySQL database as well as some specific... 15 winners of our November book giveaway Posted by Cisco Subnet editor Julie Bort: The following 15 people won a copy of VMware vSphere and Virtual Infrastructure Security: by correctly answering the following trivia question.In the excerpt of the book VMware Bankers in Cisco/Tandberg deal set to divvy up $39M in fees According to a Reuters story today, Cisco's M&A advisers on the Tandberg deal - Lazard and Carnegie, can expect to split fees of $17 to $19 million. Furthermore, dealmaker Freeman & Co. is predicting that Tandberg's financial adiviser - JPMorgan, will rake in fees of $18 to $20 million from the deal. Breathtakingly, earlier this month, I was both stunned and flabbergasted to read in Deal.com... Today from the Subnet communities On Cisco Subnet: Cisco's SSL client will gain ScanSafe technology and Cisco, EMC venture preps for early Q1 launch; On Microsoft Subnet: Patch Tuesday: Six expected patches, two surprises; On Google Subnet: Chrome gains extensions, Mac, Linux versions Network World on Twitter? You bet we are |
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