When was the last time you used a dedicated video conferencing room over a video call on Skype, Slack, or FaceTime? This realization has seemingly hit Cisco Systems, which is pushing a new “smart” whiteboard to the market. It’s basically a giant iPad mounted on the wall. But it makes sense. Over the years, Cisco and its competitors have struggled…
Cisco today closed its approximately $3.7 billion deal for application analytics specialist AppDynamics giving the networking giant a nice revenue stream and bolstering its software strategy. The nine-year-old company – which Cisco bought Jan. 24, days before it was to go IPO — and its almost 1,250 employees become part of Cisco as the 17th acquisition since Chuck Robbins took…
When Amazon Web Services experienced a five-hour service disruption on Feb. 28, many cloud customers and websites were knocked offline, making it impossible for employees and customers to connect. For businesses, that can be a huge problem which can affect their bottom lines in big ways. For AWS customers, the outage lasted about five hours and was caused by an…
