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Tech in the wild: Seattle-area startup Thingy will test Amazon Sidewalk to connect remote sensors

by Todd Bishop on January 10, 2022January 10, 2022 at 2:49 pm

Scott Waller is a former Cisco and Microsoft systems engineer and network architect who was inspired by his experience as a volunteer firefighter and avalanche instructor to launch an Internet… Read More

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Amazon teams up with Lockheed Martin and Cisco to put Alexa voice assistant on NASA’s moon ship

by Alan Boyle on January 5, 2022January 5, 2022 at 5:47 am

Alexa, when are we arriving at the moon? Putting Amazon’s AI-enabled voice assistant on a moon-bound spaceship may sound like science fiction (hello, HAL!). But it’s due to become science… Read More

Tech Moves: Microsoft’s general counsel joins Cisco; Outreach adds execs; Avalara expands board

by Cara Kuhlman on June 29, 2021June 29, 2021 at 5:40 pm

— After 14 years at Microsoft, Dev Stahlkopf is joining Cisco in August as executive vice president and chief legal officer. She has served as Microsoft’s general counsel and corporate… Read More

Cisco CEO says it’s time to regulate the tech industry and that capitalism is currently ‘broken’

by John Cook on November 16, 2019November 16, 2019 at 7:47 am

PALM DESERT, Calif. — Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins says the technology industry needs to be regulated, but that it’s going to take a new effort by the industry to build… Read More

According to Cisco, Amazon Web Services isn’t making a “commercial” networking switch. It still could be making a switch

by Tom Krazit on July 18, 2018July 18, 2018 at 4:02 pm

A week after a report that Amazon Web Services was building its own bare-bones networking switch in a potential threat to networking powers like Cisco and Huawei, Cisco doesn’t worried… Read More

Amazon Web Services might be courting hybrid cloud customers in an interesting way

by Tom Krazit on July 13, 2018July 13, 2018 at 12:07 pm

There are lots of companies that understand the benefits of cloud computing but, for a variety of good reasons, can’t move everything in one fell swoop. Amazon Web Services appears… Read More

Puppet raises $42M to fuel its software development technology for the cloud, hopes to be cash-flow positive in a year

by Tom Krazit on June 27, 2018June 27, 2018 at 10:42 am

At one point three years ago, Portland’s Puppet thought it was headed toward an IPO. That did not happen, but CEO Sanjay Mirchandani says the DevOps toolmaker is back on… Read More

Google to link Meet business video-calling app with Microsoft Skype and other rivals

by Tony Lystra on June 4, 2018June 4, 2018 at 9:16 am

Google announced Monday morning that its enterprise video calling app, Hangouts Meet, will be capable of connecting directly to competing apps, including Microsoft Skype for Business. In doing so, Google… Read More

ExtraHop’s network analysis technology gets a boost from Cisco partnership

by Tom Krazit on June 26, 2017June 26, 2017 at 5:28 am

Networking giant Cisco plans to draw on technology developed by Seattle’s ExtraHop in a new partnership aimed at improving network security with real-time data. ExtraHop’s flagship product, a network monitoring… Read More

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Cloud Native Computing Foundation adds the CoreOS-backed CNI as latest hosted project

by Tom Krazit on May 23, 2017May 23, 2017 at 4:05 am

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has voted to approve the Container Networking Interface (CNI) as the new open-source project under its umbrella, the organization plans to announce later on… Read More

Amazon, Microsoft and Apple back Google in overseas data storage dispute

by Nat Levy on March 15, 2017March 15, 2017 at 1:00 pm

Fellow tech giants Amazon, Microsoft, Apple and Cisco have come out in support of Google’s resistance to hand over data stored overseas in response to an FBI warrant. The tech giants… Read More

As cloud computing grows, the market for commercial servers, switches and routers declines

by Dan Richman on January 6, 2017January 6, 2017 at 9:20 am

As cloud computing grows and swells the coffers of companies including Amazon, Microsoft, Google and IBM, it’s instructive to also note which firms the cloud’s growth is hurting. For example, revenue… Read More

Another one bites the dust: Cisco discontinues its $1B cloud initiative as AWS, Azure and others expand

by Dan Richman on December 14, 2016December 14, 2016 at 2:10 pm

Cisco will abandon its InterCloud cloud-computing offering on March 31 and will move any InterCloud workloads to other, unnamed cloud providers, including “in some cases, public cloud,” VentureBeat quoted Cisco as… Read More

Starbucks hires Amazon Web Services and Microsoft vet to build cloud-based ‘digital flywheel’

by Dan Richman on December 13, 2016December 13, 2016 at 8:54 am

Tal Saraf, a veteran of Cisco, Microsoft and Amazon Web Services, has joined Starbucks as its senior vice president of engineering and architecture, where he’s part of the effort to create… Read More

Cisco acquires startup ContainerX, buying into container management amidst layoffs and declining revenue

by Dan Richman on August 30, 2016August 30, 2016 at 10:13 am

Cisco took its first step into the software container market today, announcing plans to buy ContainerX, an early-stage startup focused on helping manage and integrate containers. Terms weren’t disclosed. ContainerX,… Read More

Cisco, hurt by the cloud, will cut 5,500 jobs after a 2-percent quarterly revenue decline

by Dan Richman on August 17, 2016August 17, 2016 at 3:48 pm

Cisco, a maker of routers, switches and data-center gear whose sales are jeopardized by the movement to cloud computing and by fierce competition, is laying off up to 5,500 positions, or 7… Read More

Apple, Microsoft and Google hold 23% of all U.S. corporate cash, as tech sector accumulates wealth

by Todd Bishop on May 23, 2016May 23, 2016 at 8:34 am

Apple, Microsoft and Google are the top three cash-rich U.S. companies across all sectors of business, not including banks and other financial institutions — holding a combined $391 billion in… Read More

Cisco and Box team up, unveil ‘Project Squared’ collaboration suite

by Blair Hanley Frank on November 17, 2014November 17, 2014 at 3:07 pm

Cisco and Box have teamed up to take on enterprise collaboration with a new service they call “Project Squared.” It’s a set of tools designed to make it easy for… Read More

Cisco agrees to deeper integration with Microsoft on cloud and datacenter products

by Blair Hanley Frank on July 15, 2014July 15, 2014 at 9:53 am

Cisco announced a multi-year sales agreement with Microsoft at the Redmond-based company’s World Partner Conference today. The two companies will work together on selling cloud and datacenter services, and have… Read More

Cisco takes aim at Amazon and Microsoft with $1B cloud computing push

by Blair Hanley Frank on March 24, 2014March 24, 2014 at 8:48 am

Cisco announced today that it plans to spend $1 billion over the next two years to create a cloud computing platform to compete with rival players like Amazon and Microsoft.… Read More

Microsoft fends off legal challenge from Cisco over Skype acquisition

by Blair Hanley Frank on December 11, 2013December 11, 2013 at 10:50 am

Microsoft no longer has the threat of yet another European antitrust case hanging over it. According to a report by Reuters, the General Court of the European Union ruled that… Read More

Cisco: Microsoft’s ‘Windows first’ strategy out of touch with rise of Android, Apple

by Todd Bishop on February 18, 2013February 18, 2013 at 8:08 am

On the eve of Microsoft’s first-ever Lync Conference, Cisco today launched a campaign questioning Microsoft’s strategy of making its communication and collaboration products work “first and best” on Windows. Cisco,… Read More

Parallels nabs cash from Cisco to bolster cloud efforts

by John Cook on January 17, 2013January 17, 2013 at 7:50 am

Parallels announced today that it has received an investment of undisclosed size from Cisco, money that the Renton-based company will use to bolster its cloud services efforts. As part of… Read More

Tech Moves: Optify hires Doug Wheeler; Starbucks vet joins Auction Edge; and more

by John Cook on September 26, 2012September 26, 2012 at 7:54 am

Optify, a Seattle startup specializing in marketing software, has named 25-year- marketing vet Doug Wheeler to the position of chief marketing officer. Wheeler most recently worked at TappIn, which was… Read More

Tech Moves: Microsoft hires Cisco vet; Promotions at thePlatform; etc.

by John Cook on February 13, 2012February 13, 2012 at 9:20 am

Microsoft has named Laura Ipsen as corporate vice president of Worldwide Public Sector. In the role, Ipsen will lead sales and marketing overseeing the government, public safety, national security, education and… Read More

Meet the new ‘four horsemen’ of tech: Sorry, Microsoft, Dell, Cisco and Intel

by John Cook on January 6, 2012January 6, 2012 at 10:39 am

Oh, how the technology landscape has changed.  Ten years ago, the industry was dominated by names such as Microsoft, Intel, Dell and Cisco. And while those companies certainly haven’t gone… Read More

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