Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A)

May 11, 2017

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

Transforming Collaboration Through Artificial Intelligence with Cisco’s Acquisition of MindMeld

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The acquisition of MindMeld, Cisco’s third in two weeks, represents how our innovation strategy continues to impact our strategic shift to become more of a software company.

Viptela – A Key Piece of Cisco’s Digital Business Transformation

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Viptela extends Cisco’s SD networking strategy into the WAN environment with its cloud-first network management, orchestration, and overlay technologies.

Empowering Customers at the Edge

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Over the past several years, an immense transition has taken place as networks have become more diverse and complex. Companies large and small have many branch sites – users at the edge that need to connect securely and quickly to the network and the cloud. Software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) technologies are enabling customers to […]

March 22, 2017

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

Celebrating the Future of Cisco and AppDynamics

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Today, I had the sincere honor to stand with leaders of AppDynamics to ring the Nasdaq opening bell. I can now say that AppDynamics and Cisco are one team. In ringing the bell, we celebrated the amazing company that the founders and leaders of AppDynamics created as well as a new era of innovation that […]

March 21, 2017

WE ARE CISCO

Cisco: The 70,000 Person “Startup”

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From startup to Cisco Acquisition, this new employee explains what it's like coming into the Cisco culture, by the numbers.

October 17, 2016

COLLABORATION

Taking a Moment to Reflect on Cisco Spark

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The acquisition of Worklife underlines how important productive meetings are in today’s world. If that sounds like a natural fit for WebEx and Cisco Spark, it is. Worklife expands beyond the now – the in-meeting experience – to pre- and post-meeting capabilities like agendas, templates, notes, co-editing, tasks, and meeting previews.

October 17, 2016

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

Cisco Announces Acquisition of Worklife

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I’m pleased to announce the acquisition of Heroik Labs, Inc. doing business as Worklife. Worklife is a privately-held company based in San Francisco, CA that provides software to improve meeting productivity. Worklife’s mission is to help teams be prepared and informed so they can run highly effective meetings. Their application enables people to be more […]

August 30, 2016

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

Cisco Announces Intent to Acquire ContainerX

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I’m excited to share that today Cisco announced its intent to acquire ContainerX, Inc., Cisco’s first acquisition in the rapidly emerging container market. ContainerX is an early stage, privately held company focused on building technology to help enterprises manage, orchestrate and integrate containers across data centers. Many of our customers are starting to use containers […]

June 28, 2016

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

Cisco to Expand Cloud Security Portfolio with Acquisition of CloudLock

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I’m excited to share that today Cisco announced its intent to acquire CloudLock Inc., a leading cloud security solution that gives companies visibility and policy control over content shared in cloud applications. CloudLock specializes in Cloud Access Security Broker, or CASB, technology and helps organizations move faster to the cloud. CloudLock delivers cloud security to […]