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Apple, Cisco Back Microsoft Data Request Challenge
Major companies are lending their support to a Microsoft court challenge to the US government's request for email data stored in Europe
Cisco Seeks To Up Anti-Malware Game With ThreatGRID Bid
Cisco wants to get better at blocking zero-day threats
Cisco’s Chambers Writes To Obama Over NSA Spying
Cisco chief executive John Chambers has written to the US president expressing his concerns over alleged NSA interceptions of US networking equipment
Cisco Upset By Images Of NSA Tampering With Networking Kit
Cisco wants governments to stop interfering with its kit
Cisco Beats Estimates With 5.5 Percent Revenue Decline
The network equipment maker's shares rose in after-hours trading, as it reported recovering demand in developed markets and a revenue decline that was less than analysts had expected
Cisco And Citrix Buddy Up For Enterprise Mobility Platform
Cisco and Citrix extend their partnership to include a workplace mobility solution for businesses
Cisco Ditches WebEx Social, Replaces It With Jive
Cisco adds Jive platform to communications products as part of new collaboration strategy
Cisco Announces Managed Security Service
Cisco's Managed Threat Defence service will remotely monitor enterprise networks and identify threats based on Hadoop 2.0-based predictive analytics
Cisco Touts OpFlex As OpenFlow Alternative
Cisco introduces OpFlex protocol as part of its ACI push to offer companies an alternative to SDN platforms
Amazon Cuts Cloud Platform Prices
Amazon responds to Google slashing prices on its services as cloud platform price war heats up
Google Slashes Cloud Storage Costs
Cheaper Cloud Platform offerings will help Google take on likes of Amazon Web Services and the newly-renamed Microsoft Azure
Report: Cisco To Invest $1bn In Enterprise Cloud
Cisco is to announce a broad push into cloud services, targeting enterprises and government agencies
iRobot’s Cisco-Based Ava 500 Telepresence Robot Goes On Sale: Gallery
The robot, which is controlled remotely via an iPad, is just one representative of a new generation of telepresence devices
Cisco To Pay £190,000 In Prizes To IoT Security Contest Winners
Cisco is looking to bolster interest in Internet of Things security technologies with a contest announced at the RSA conference
IDC: 10GbE Demand Driving Ethernet Growth
Cisco, HP, Juniper and others are seeing strong growth as organisations push 10GbE and 40GbE into the data centre
MWC 2014: Cisco’s Chambers Predicts Big Network Changes
Cisco CEO John Chambers doesn't think much of a Juniper-NSN deal, and warned of big changes in networking, at MWC
RSA 2014: Cisco Open Sources App Security Tools
Snort community gets a boost thanks to OpenAppID open sourcing
Cisco Profit Plummets As Weak Demand Bites
Cisco predicts more pain ahead but is optimistic about its direction, despite slides in both profit and revenue
Cisco, Samsung Reach Patent Deal
The agreement between Cisco and Samsung follows similar arrangements between Cisco and Google and Samsung and Google
Mobile Data Usage To Increase 11-Fold By 2018 – Cisco
Report from Cisco also predicts that 4G networks will carry 51 percent of mobile data traffic by 2018
Google Signs Patent Deal With Cisco
Google and Cisco have teamed up to protect themselves from future patent lawsuits
Cisco Touts ‘Fog Computing’ With New IOx Platform
Cisco's new IOx platform includes a Linux OS to push software to network edge for IoT
Cisco: DDoS And Infrastructure Attacks Among The Biggest Threats In 2014
Meanwhile, the industry is missing almost a million cyber security professionals
Cisco Warns Of POS System Vulnerabilities
Recent attacks prompt Cisco to warn of the vulnerabilities surrounding point-of-sale devices
CES 2014: Cisco Focuses On ‘Internet Of Everything’
Cisco Systems chief executive John Chambers is to kick off CES 2014 today with a speech on the transition to ubiquitous connected devices
IT Firms Probe NSA Allegations
Cisco, Dell and others are investigating claims that the NSA compromised their products
Cisco Offers Up Cloud Desktop Virtualisation Solution
Cisco partners with Citrix and VMware and launches a cloud-based desktop-as-a-service solution
Cisco Targets Mobile With Collaborate.com Purchase
Cisco acquires Collaborate.com in an effort to beef up its mobile collaboration capabilities
Cisco: Snowden Leak Hit Chinese Sales ‘Unfairly’
Questions about Cisco's role in NSA surveillance have hit Cisco's sales unfairly, the UK director of security tells TechWeek