Cisco Systems News

Cisco Systems released its quarterly results update on Nov 4th, but the more important announcement related to Cisco's future as a 'technology leader' came a day earlier.

Ethernet Expo Americas 2009 -- The emergence of 100-Gbit/s Ethernet will prod NTT America Inc.

Cisco CEO John Chambers was recently named one of America's Best Leaders, today however, The New York Times in a scathing article , is questioning whether Cisco shareholders will ever see a return on their investment.

HERNDON, Va., Nov. 6, 2009 -- ePlus inc. announced today that its wholly owned subsidiary, ePlus Technology inc., has achieved the Master Managed Services Certification from Cisco .

TWO YEARS AGO, ON NOV. 7, 2007, CISCO Systems CEO John Chambers sent shivers through the stock market, warning the company had seen signs of slowing demand from the U.S. enterprise sector.

Yesterday, Cisco announced a strong quarter, and rival Juniper also reported a strong quarter recently, signaling early stages of recovery in the industry.

Stock index futures rose on Thursday on upbeat results from Cisco Systems and ahead of an expected pickup in October same-store sales as well as jobless claims data.

That's good for just about everyone involved -- except for Mike Volpi , a Silicon Valley dealmaker who helped organize the deal in the first place.

Info-Techa s Jayanth Angl says Aura will help Avaya compete with Cisco Avaya Inc.

Advisers to a small band of shareholders in Norwegian video conferencing company Tandberg ASA added their voices to calls for suitor Cisco Systems Inc to up its $3 billion bid, ahead of a Monday offer deadline.

Oil prices climbed toward $80 a barrel Friday, catching up with a surge in global stock markets and assisted by a slightly weaker dollar which made crude more attractive to international investors.

Nov. 5 -- Bloomberg's Deborah Kostroun reports on the performance of the U.S. equity market today.

The Toronto stock market was little changed early Thursday morning as commodity stocks retreated amid some positive U.S. employment data that came a day before the release of the government's unemployment report.

U.S. stocks jumped on Thursday, pushing the S&P 500 up for a fourth day, as economic data boosted confidence in the recovery and strong results from Cisco Systems suggested a rebound in technology spending.

Gary Daichendt and Gary Kunis were extremely wealthy when they retired from Cisco Systems Inc.

Like the rest of the IT industry, Hewlett-Packard was apparently expecting Cisco Systems and EMC to announce their Acadia joint venture and Vblock virtualized data center infrastructure on Wednesday.

The long rumored partnership between networking giant and server wannabe Cisco Systems, server virtualization juggernaut VMware, and storage powerhouse EMC will be announced this week, according to various reports.

A late-day slump left stocks mixed Wednesday as investors couldn't hold on to their optimism after the Federal Reserve gave an encouraging assessment of the economy.

San Jose networking giant Cisco Systems today reported lower profits, but beat even lower expectations of Wall Street.

Cisco Systems is expected to report lower profit and sales after the closing bell Wednesday, but analysts are pointing to signs that the tech giant is riding a wave of corporate demand for high-tech products and services.