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Tuesday, December 11, 2012

How IT can become a driver of business growth

  Chambers: Cisco will be more of a software and services company | SDN switch company takes aim at the cloud
 
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How IT can become a driver of business growth
IT departments excel at boosting efficiency but fall short of driving business growth, according to a study from the Economist Intelligence Unit. Read More


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Chambers: Cisco will be more of a software and services company
Cisco, the quintessential IT hardware maker, wants you to start thinking about it as software and services company. CEO John Chambers told analysts in New York that the switch/router manufacturer that is also heavily invested in video and server gear that the company plans to double its revenues from software over the next five years from $6 billion to $12 billion, according to a Reuters report. Read More

SDN switch company takes aim at the cloud
SDN switch vendor Pica8 this week unveiled a reference architecture intended to help cloud providers develop their programmable networks using Pica8 products. Read More

Another start-up targeting SDNs, Cisco's dominance
They are coming out of the woodwork. Another SDN start-up has cropped up, this one north of the border in Canada. Read More


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Survey: 1 in 3 'mission-critical' applications now in cloud
About 1 in 3 "mission-critical" applications are currently in the cloud, and this is expected to increase to 1 in 2 by 2015, according to a survey of 400 IT and business managers. Read More

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Weighing Cisco's prospects for 2013
All eyes were on Cisco last Friday, December 7th, as the company held its annual Financial Analyst conference in New York. Cisco, the undisputed 800-pound gorilla in networking, has been rapidly transforming itself into a broader IT company. At the event, CEO John Chambers made the bold claim that the company's goal is to not just be an IT company, but indeed the No. 1 IT Company. Read More

New Aruba Wi-Fi controllers dissect WLAN traffic
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