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  02/03/2020 Update: We have completed the acquisition of Exablaze. Welcome to the team!   Network capacity and speed are today’s bread and butter for data intensive, highly transactional-based businesses requiring optimized bandwidth performance in industries and market segments like high…

8/8/19 Update: Today we completed the acquisition of Sentryo. Welcome to Cisco! The Internet of Things (IoT) holds tremendous potential for companies to increase their productivity, gain access to deep intelligence and create new revenue opportunities. At the same time many organizations struggle wi…

Today, I am excited to announce that Cisco is launching a new, independent venture capital firm, Decibel, focused exclusively on early stage investing in the Enterprise. This is the first truly independent effort ever formed by a major technology company. Decibel is designed to bring together the be…

2/11/19 Update: Today we completed the acquisition of Singularity Networks. Welcome to Cisco! I am pleased to announce Cisco’s intent to acquire Singularity Networks, a privately-held network infrastructure analytics company. Singularity Networks captures, enriches, and analyzes network data to help…

Update 1/11/19: Pleased to share that we have completed the acquisition of Ensoft.  Welcome to Cisco! I’m pleased to announce Cisco’s intent to acquire Ensoft Ltd. to further our commitment to simplify service provider networks through automation and programmability. Ensoft, a privately-held company…

Acquisitions have long played a key role in Cisco’s build, buy, partner, invest and co-develop innovation strategy. They help position us to enter new growth markets and extend our leadership in priority areas such as security. That’s why I am excited about our intent to acquire Duo Security, the le…

Today we are announcing our intent to acquire July Systems, a privately-held company headquartered in Burlingame, California with offices in Bangalore, India. We are excited to welcome July Systems and its cloud-based mobile experience and location services platform to Cisco as we continue to bolste…

2/8/18 Update: Pleased to announce that we have completed the acquisition of Skyport Systems. Welcome to Cisco! I’m excited to share that today Cisco announced its intent to acquire Skyport Systems, Inc., a privately-held company providing cloud-managed, hyper-converged systems that run and protect…

12/21/17 Update: Pleased to announce that we have completed the acquisition of Cmpute.io. Welcome to Cisco! More and more businesses are moving workloads to private and public clouds — and often to multiple public cloud providers — in order to gain more flexibility and agility. However,…