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Hilton Romanski

No Longer with Cisco

In his role as Cisco's Chief Strategy Officer, Hilton Romanski was responsible for shaping Cisco’s corporate strategy and applying tools that allow Cisco to anticipate and lead market transitions.

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April 30, 2014

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There is No Limit to Innovation

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There is no limit to innovation.  Cisco has embraced that idea for more than three decades with our build, buy, partner and integrate growth strategy.  Part of that strategy is investing in order to gain insights and drive new innovation.  True to that spirit, we have just announced the next evolution of the Cisco Investments[1] […]

January 8, 2014

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Cisco Investments Shape the Disruptions that will Define Tomorrow’s World

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It’s impossible to predict the future, especially when it comes to the impact of technology on our lives.  This has been true since the time of the very earliest human inventions, and in the modern era, we no longer need decades and multiple generations to see these changes; they are immediate and have the power […]

December 17, 2013

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Cisco Announces Acquisition of Collaborate.com

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As the rapidly developing mobility and cloud markets transform the technology landscape, the population of mobile workers looking to extend the boundaries of their offices continues to grow. They want to connect, communicate and collaborate seamlessly, and their organizations are seeking user-friendly, mobile-centric collaboration tools that enable teams to work faster while being as productive […]

September 10, 2013

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Cisco Announces Intent to Acquire WHIPTAIL

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The Internet of Everything is delivering profound changes to the world. By 2017 there will be more than 19 billion networked devices globally – bringing a deluge of data on today’s IT environments. Against this backdrop, we are witnessing a move from the Web Economy of the early 2000s to the App Economy of today, […]

June 20, 2013

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Cisco Announces Intent to Acquire Composite Software

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Big data and cloud are drastically changing today’s IT landscape. The proliferation of traditional and new data sources plus the movement of data to the cloud complicate a company’s ability...

May 29, 2013

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Cisco Announces Intent to Acquire JouleX

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Today, I’m pleased to announce Cisco’s intent to acquire JouleX, a leader in enterprise IT energy management for network-attached and data center assets. JouleX provides software for networked devices for enterprise and data center energy management, analytics, policy governance and compliance. IT energy consumption is one of the largest unmanaged expenses and as a result […]

April 3, 2013

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Cisco Announces Intent to Acquire Ubiquisys

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Today, I am pleased to announce Cisco’s intent to acquire Ubiquisys, a privately-held company headquartered in Swindon, UK for $310 million in cash and employee retention incentives. Ubiquisys is...

March 25, 2013

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Cisco Announces Intent to Acquire SolveDirect

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The network is emerging as the central nervous system for business in today’s hyper-connected world. As a result, it will be expected that people, things and sources of data are...

March 20, 2013

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M&A: Taking Action When it Matters Most

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Innovation is the engine that powers Cisco. Its machinery was first assembled by an entrepreneurial husband and wife team with a great idea to connect the computers of two departments at Stanford University. It has since been turbo-charged by the simple notion that an open, standards-based communication protocol can be extended across the many ways […]

January 29, 2013

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Cisco to Boost Network Security Platform with Acquisition of Cognitive Security

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Today, I am pleased to announce Cisco’s intent to acquire Cognitive Security, a privately-held company headquartered in Prague, Czech Republic. Cognitive Security is focused on taking cutting edge research in the field of network security and applying artificial intelligence techniques to detect advanced cyber threats. Cognitive Security’s solution integrates a range of sophisticated software technologies […]

January 24, 2013

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Belkin Announces Intent to Acquire Linksys

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Today, Belkin announced its intent to acquire Cisco’s Home Networking Business Unit and its leading brand, Linksys.  With this agreement, we are pleased to preserve the strong Linksys brand and create a win-win relationship in the market. Linksys is a strong and enduring brand with a talented team that has helped revolutionize the way we […]

January 23, 2013

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Cisco Announces Intent to Acquire Intucell

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Today, I am pleased to announce Cisco’s intent to acquire Intucell, a privately held company headquartered in Ra’anana, Israel for $475 million in cash and employee retention incentives. Intucell provides software platforms for Self-Optimized Network (SON) that support mobile carrier networks worldwide. This acquisition will allow Cisco to extend network intelligence and tightly align different […]

December 21, 2012

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Cisco Signs Joint Venture Agreement

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According to the Cisco Visual Networking Index, China’s internet traffic will grow 600 percent in the next two years. At that point, China will also be home to nearly a quarter of the world’s broadband users and 21 percent of the world’s connected devices. This substantial growth, combined with the country’s rapid urbanization, opens the […]

December 18, 2012

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Cisco Announces Intent to Acquire BroadHop

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With global IP traffic projected to increase threefold over the next five years – after having increased eightfold over the past five years – policy control and services creation at large scale has never been more vital for mobile and fixed communications service providers. Cisco plans to add a critical piece of service creation technology to […]

November 18, 2012

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Cisco Announces Intent to Acquire Meraki

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Cisco is dedicated to innovation as the path to growth as well as the key to sustaining our market leadership position. Our build, buy, partner strategy has always been driven by customer need and on capturing market transitions. Today, we are excited to announce an important acquisition that addresses the rapidly occurring shift to cloud […]

November 15, 2012

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Cisco Announces Intent to Acquire Cloupia

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Based in Santa Clara, Calif, Cloupia is a software company that automates converged data center infrastructure – allowing enterprises and service providers to speed the deployment and configuration of physical and virtual infrastructure from a single management console. Together, Cisco and Cloupia will extend the converged management benefits of the Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) […]