But all the big companies are doing it, including Cisco Systems and PepsiCo.
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Jive has 3, 000 customers and 15 million users including Cisco, Nike and VMWare.
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After six weeks of training he has them making sales calls for the biggest names in technology, including Cisco, SAP and NetApp.
The Journal reported in July that Western companies, including Cisco Systems Inc.
Attracted by the perks and anxious not to upset the Russian government, their largest customer in the country, some 20 companies have signed up, including Cisco, IBM and SAP.
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The ripple effect may even reach networking companies, including Cisco (nasdaq: CSCO - news - people ), Juniper Networks (nasdaq: JNPR - news - people ) and Nortel Networks (nyse: NT - news - people ).
While Bartels has watched server makers like Sun Microsystems suffer from economic troubles since as early as the beginning of the year, (see "Sun Eclipsed By Poor Results--Again") he says that the recent and dramatic widening of the banking crisis means more pain is in store for other IT firms--including Cisco.
Several HomePlug member companies are making significant contributions to the development of IEEE P1905, including Broadcom, Cisco Systems, France Telecom, Qualcomm Atheros, Ralink, Sigma Designs, SPiDCOM Technologies and STMicroelectronics.
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As a top Silicon Valley tech banker, first at Deutsche Bank and later at Credit Suisse First Boston, he presided over 175 initial public offerings, including those for Cisco Systems , Intuit , Netscape and Amazon.com .
On July 8, tech heavyweights including Microsoft, Cisco Systems and Sun Microsystems teamed up to fix a fundamental flaw in the Internet, one that could allow any Web user to be invisibly redirected to fraudulent sites designed to steal banking passwords or install malicious software on users' PCs.
The native of India earned a master's degree in computer science from the University of Southern California and worked for various startups, including one acquired by Cisco Systems Inc.
Rackspace and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) initiated OpenStack, an IaaS cloud computing offering that now counts more than 120 member companies, including Dell, HP and Cisco.
This is a much nicer headline for the social media company than the ones popping up a few days ago ( including mine), when Cisco security reported on the largest spam-based malware attack to date, which targeted LinkedIn users with duplicitous links embedded in contact requests.
The calculations are similar for Cisco and Microsoft: Including cash, they are 10 and nine times forecast earnings, respectively.
Ultimately 5, 000 people got Kaval's pitch, including Michelangelo Volpi, head of Cisco's routing business and a fellow Stanford business graduate.
Along the way, HSBC incorporated Cisco equipment in its data centers and Cisco videoconferencing systems, including its high-end TelePresence technology, in its offices.
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Situated between Raleigh and nearby Durham is the Research Triangle Park, where more than 170 companies have outposts, including major corporations like EMC, Cisco and First Citizens National Bank.
More speed means more consumption, and Cisco projects mobile speeds (including 2G, 3G and 4G networks) to increase nine-fold from 2011 to 2016.
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Over the period 1993-2000, Cisco acquired seventy companies, including Cresendo Communications (1993), Newport Systems Solutions (1994), Network Translation (1995), Netsys Technologies (1996), Net Speed (1998), and Growth Networks (1999), etc.
Cisco is selling that business, including the Linksys brand, to Belkin, a maker of smartphone cases and computing accessories.
Designed with professionals in mind, the GALAXY M Pro offers extensive productivity through a variety of enterprise solutions, including Exchange Active Sync, Sybase Afaria, CISCO Mobile and CISCO WebEx.
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The CCIE is the highest of Cisco's three training levels, and Cisco offers six areas of certification, including routing and switching, security and storage networking.
Earlier this month, Cisco announced plans to embrace the technology, including products that use an emerging SDN standard called OpenFlow.
There was no shortage of news to start the week, including a leadership change at Intel, a sizable acquisition for Cisco Systems and a dividend acceleration from Wal-Mart Stores.
In addition, the program, called ExpertONE, strives to establish the level of expertise a learner has coming into the course, including skills picked up learning on the systems of competitors like Cisco, Juniper or EMC.
The benefits of growth may be felt by those who supply the labour (local workers), the capital (including local savers and investors) and the technology (eg, Cisco Systems) or by none of the above, such as consumers.
On a conference call, Senior Vice President Charles Giancarlo said that Cisco originally intended to build a home networking business--including the products--itself.
Several analysts downgraded the stock Thursday morning, including Deutsche Bank ( DB) and Wunderlich Securities, which both downgraded Cisco from buy to hold, and William Blair, which cut the rating from outperform to market perform.
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Although enterprise routers remain the single largest profit driver for Cisco, we note that the service provider router segment (including both edge and core routers) does generate a combined profitability beyond the individual contribution from the enterprise segment.
Belkin and Cisco intend to develop a strategic relationship on a variety of initiatives including retail distribution, strategic marketing and products for the service provider market.
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