Articles about Cisco

Cisco to acquire Seattle-area AI startup NeuralFabric, expanding push into enterprise generative AI

Cisco is acquiring NeuralFabric, a Seattle-area AI startup founded by former Microsoft engineers that builds back-end software for companies to develop and deploy their own generative AI models. The deal strengthens Cisco’s push into enterprise AI; terms weren’t disclosed. Read More

Tech in the wild: Seattle-area startup Thingy will test Amazon Sidewalk to connect remote sensors

Scott Waller is a former Cisco and Microsoft systems engineer and network architect who was inspired by his experience as… Read More

Amazon teams up with Lockheed Martin and Cisco to put Alexa voice assistant on NASA’s moon ship

Alexa, when are we arriving at the moon? Putting Amazon’s AI-enabled voice assistant on a moon-bound spaceship may sound like… Read More

Tech Moves: Microsoft’s general counsel joins Cisco; Outreach adds execs; Avalara expands board

— After 14 years at Microsoft, Dev Stahlkopf is joining Cisco in August as executive vice president and chief legal… Read More

Cisco CEO says it’s time to regulate the tech industry and that capitalism is currently ‘broken’

PALM DESERT, Calif. — Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins says the technology industry needs to be regulated, but that it’s going… Read More

According to Cisco, Amazon Web Services isn’t making a “commercial” networking switch. It still could be making a switch

A week after a report that Amazon Web Services was building its own bare-bones networking switch in a potential threat… Read More

Amazon Web Services might be courting hybrid cloud customers in an interesting way

There are lots of companies that understand the benefits of cloud computing but, for a variety of good reasons, can’t… Read More

Puppet raises $42M to fuel its software development technology for the cloud, hopes to be cash-flow positive in a year

At one point three years ago, Portland’s Puppet thought it was headed toward an IPO. That did not happen, but… Read More

Google to link Meet business video-calling app with Microsoft Skype and other rivals

Google announced Monday morning that its enterprise video calling app, Hangouts Meet, will be capable of connecting directly to competing… Read More

ExtraHop’s network analysis technology gets a boost from Cisco partnership

Networking giant Cisco plans to draw on technology developed by Seattle’s ExtraHop in a new partnership aimed at improving network… Read More

Cloud Native Computing Foundation adds the CoreOS-backed CNI as latest hosted project

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has voted to approve the Container Networking Interface (CNI) as the new open-source project… Read More

Amazon, Microsoft and Apple back Google in overseas data storage dispute

Fellow tech giants Amazon, Microsoft, Apple and Cisco have come out in support of Google’s resistance to hand over data… Read More

As cloud computing grows, the market for commercial servers, switches and routers declines

As cloud computing grows and swells the coffers of companies including Amazon, Microsoft, Google and IBM, it’s instructive to also note… Read More

Another one bites the dust: Cisco discontinues its $1B cloud initiative as AWS, Azure and others expand

Cisco will abandon its InterCloud cloud-computing offering on March 31 and will move any InterCloud workloads to other, unnamed cloud… Read More

Starbucks hires Amazon Web Services and Microsoft vet to build cloud-based ‘digital flywheel’

Tal Saraf, a veteran of Cisco, Microsoft and Amazon Web Services, has joined Starbucks as its senior vice president of engineering… Read More

Cisco acquires startup ContainerX, buying into container management amidst layoffs and declining revenue

Cisco took its first step into the software container market today, announcing plans to buy ContainerX, an early-stage startup focused… Read More

Cisco, hurt by the cloud, will cut 5,500 jobs after a 2-percent quarterly revenue decline

Cisco, a maker of routers, switches and data-center gear whose sales are jeopardized by the movement to cloud computing and by… Read More

Apple, Microsoft and Google hold 23% of all U.S. corporate cash, as tech sector accumulates wealth

Apple, Microsoft and Google are the top three cash-rich U.S. companies across all sectors of business, not including banks and… Read More

Cisco and Box team up, unveil ‘Project Squared’ collaboration suite

Cisco and Box have teamed up to take on enterprise collaboration with a new service they call “Project Squared.” It’s… Read More

Cisco agrees to deeper integration with Microsoft on cloud and datacenter products

Cisco announced a multi-year sales agreement with Microsoft at the Redmond-based company’s World Partner Conference today. The two companies will… Read More

Cisco takes aim at Amazon and Microsoft with $1B cloud computing push

Cisco announced today that it plans to spend $1 billion over the next two years to create a cloud computing… Read More

Microsoft fends off legal challenge from Cisco over Skype acquisition

Microsoft no longer has the threat of yet another European antitrust case hanging over it. According to a report by… Read More

Cisco: Microsoft’s ‘Windows first’ strategy out of touch with rise of Android, Apple

On the eve of Microsoft’s first-ever Lync Conference, Cisco today launched a campaign questioning Microsoft’s strategy of making its communication… Read More

Parallels nabs cash from Cisco to bolster cloud efforts

Parallels announced today that it has received an investment of undisclosed size from Cisco, money that the Renton-based company will… Read More

Tech Moves: Optify hires Doug Wheeler; Starbucks vet joins Auction Edge; and more

Optify, a Seattle startup specializing in marketing software, has named 25-year- marketing vet Doug Wheeler to the position of chief… Read More

Tech Moves: Microsoft hires Cisco vet; Promotions at thePlatform; etc.

Microsoft has named Laura Ipsen as corporate vice president of Worldwide Public Sector. In the role, Ipsen will lead sales and… Read More

Meet the new ‘four horsemen’ of tech: Sorry, Microsoft, Dell, Cisco and Intel

Oh, how the technology landscape has changed. Ten years ago, the industry was dominated by names such as Microsoft, Intel,… Read More