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Cisco-Sourcefire union raises many product overlap questions
Industry watchers are bullish about the $2.7 billion Cisco buyout of security company Sourcefire, but they have plenty of questions about how these competitors in intrusion-detection and prevention (IDS/IPS) and next-generation firewalls (NGFW) will sort out significant product overlap. Read More

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Network protection and UTM Buyers Guide
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How Cisco's Sourcefire acquisition impacts its security prospects
It's interesting how the tech industry works. In late 2011, Cisco was in the midst of revamping itself, its stock was a shade under $14/share, and its investors calling for CEO John Chambers to resign. Today, as Mike Reno from Loverboy used to sing, "The kid is hot tonight, whoa, so hot tonight." Indeed, Mr. Chambers is on quite a roll. Read More

Cisco to acquire security vendor Sourcefire for $2.7 billion
Cisco is set to expand its security software portfolio with the acquisition of Sourcefire in a deal worth US$2.7 billion. Read More

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Chambers: Cisco will become the number 1 IT company
Think software-defined networking will change the industry? You're thinking way too small, according to Cisco CEO John Chambers. In Cisco's strategy, SDN is just a single element in a holistic architecture that brings intelligence, programmability and application awareness to every facet of your infrastructure and spans the data center to the cloud. In this installment of the IDG Enterprise CEO Interview Series, Chambers spoke with Chief Content Officer John Gallant about the power of Cisco's Unified Framework and how delivering on that vision could make Cisco the number one IT company overall. No small ambition there. Read More

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Facebook Open Compute project has "weaknesses," Cisco CEO says
Facebook's Open Compute project, which is working on open source servers and switches, will be limited by "weaknesses" in scope that Cisco can exploit, CEO John Chambers said. Read More

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WAN Optimization: They Key to Effective Private Clouds
A crucial element to any private cloud is the ability to provide reliable application performance and data transfer over the WAN. What's more, additional bandwidth won't' solve performance problems caused by latency. See how key features in WAN optimization can make the difference between a private cloud success or failure. Learn More

Does F5's ScaleN foreshadow the end of SDN controllers?
Earlier this month, F5 announced its ScaleN architecture designed to make it easier for companies to deploy a software defined network and extend virtual networks to the cloud. ScaleN can be thought of as a unified set of virtual and physical infrastructure that has been configured to optimize SDN environments. Read More

Unified visibility is needed for the dynamic infrastructure of today, the SDNs of tomorrow
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