Cisco has announced its intention to acquire Splunk for approximately $28 billion in cash, at a rate of $157 per share. After the acquisition, Splunk’s CEO, Gary Steele, will join Cisco’s executive leadership team under the leadership of Chuck Robbins, who is currently chair and CEO of Cisco. Upon acquisition, Splunk and Cisco will be … continue reading
At its annual network and security event, Cisco LIVE 2023, Cisco announced a number of new capabilities and products throughout its portfolio. According to a recent report conducted by the company, 85% of IT workers value simplicity in IT systems, and with the new innovations Cisco aims to provide that simplicity to its customers. “We’re … continue reading
IT and infrastructure company NTT announced a collaboration with technology company Cisco in order to develop and deploy joint solutions geared at improving operational efficiencies and enhancing sustainability goals. According to the companies, the combination of NTT’s Edge-as-a-Service portfolio and Cisco’s IoT features offers users real-time data insights, improved security, better decision making, and decreased … continue reading
Cisco announced that it is expanding its partnership with NTT to accelerate 5G adoption and edge connectivity across various industries. The partnership aims to expand NTT’s Managed Private 5G solution and combine it with Intel hardware so that customers can integrate Private 5G into their pre-existing Cisco LAN/WAN/cloud infrastructure. In 2021, NTT launched a globally … continue reading
Cisco revealed new innovations across its portfolio, including high-end Wi-Fi 6E access points, private 5G for the enterprise as a managed service, and new high-powered Catalyst 9000X series switches with Cisco Silicon One. The Wi-Fi 6E access points are from Catalyst and Meraki and offer gigabit performance. According to Cisco, this new offering is the … continue reading
Wind River has announced support for certain Intel industrial system-on-a-chip (SoC) processors. Supported processors include Intel Atom x6000 Series, Intel Pentium and Celeron N and J series, and 11th Gen Intel Core and Intel Celeron processors. Wind River’s real-time operating system (RTOS) VxWorks can be deployed to Intel processors to support platforms that have higher … continue reading
Akamai has announced new edge capabilities to help customers create better user experiences. It is making EdgeWorkers more flexible with new resource tiers that enable customers to better fit their needs. The two tiers are Basic Compute, which is suitable for applications that require lower CPU and memory consumption, and Dynamic Compute, which is suitable … continue reading
Cisco announced a number of new updates at its Cisco Live! event, which started on Monday. Here are a few highlights of new solutions, such as Cisco Plus and Duo passwordless authentication: Cisco Plus offers as-a-service models With Cisco Plus, customers will be able to pick and choose the solutions that best suit their needs. … continue reading
GigaSpaces has announced the release of GigaSpaces v15.5. This version has three main focus areas: realizing the value of hybrid and multi-cloud deployments, perfecting microservices, and simplifying management and operations. New features include self-balancing capabilities, one-click microservices deployment, schema evolution, object analysis, Index Usage, and one-click connectors to Oracle and Postgres on premise and to … continue reading
Google has made a number of new additions to its Anthos platform for running Kubernetes clusters in cloud and on-premises environments. It added Speech-to-Text On-Prem, which leverages Google’s speech recognition models and provides full control over speech data to comply with data residency requirements It also introduced Anthos attached clusters, which let admins manage Kubernetes … continue reading
Cisco has announced the general availability of Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (Cisco ACI) 5.0. Cisco ACI 5.0 introduces new features for service providers, simplified multicloud deployments, Day 2 operations tools, and user experience improvements. “It is more important than ever to have a network that is automated and secure from the edge, to the data … continue reading
NeuVector has announced updates to its container security platform. New features include end-to-end vulnerability management, expanded registry scanning, and host protection in production environments. This update adds the Vulnerability and Compliance Explorer, which allows users to quickly investigate, prioritize, report, and mitigate vulnerability and compliance issues. “Today’s additions to the NeuVector platform make it even … continue reading