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SAN JOSE, Calif. – June 28, 2016 – Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) announced today its intent to acquire CloudLock Inc., a privately held cloud security company based in Waltham, Massachusetts. CloudLock specializes in cloud access security broker (CASB) technology that provides enterprises with visibility and analytics around user behavior and sensitive data in cloud services, including...

Gain peace of mind and protect your business from unauthorised access and attacks with this FREE service When an organisation suffers a cyberattack, 60% of their data is stolen within the first few hours. 54% of such breaches go undiscovered for months, leaving cyber criminals a huge opening. New trends such as mobility and cloud...

Organisations can now take advantage of the easylease 0% finance scheme to acquire Cisco systems and networking solutions. According to an industry survey, 73% of customers look to solve the ‘how-to-fund’ question early in the process, before pricing or seeking quotations (Forrester, Financing in the Current Macroeconomic Environment Findings from France, Germany, UK, March 2014). Cisco has...

A healthy network contains much less risk. That means ensuring all of your mission-critical equipment is covered, supported and not obsolete. But it can be challenging to identify, tackle and anticipate points of weakness in an increasingly complex network environment. Typically, business networks contain some equipment which is uncovered, unsupported or obsolete. In many cases...

By Hema Marshall at Cisco Blogs Without question the UK has an innovation heritage we can all be proud of: from inventing the telephone to the World Wide Web, we also spearheaded the first industrial revolution with British cities like Manchester & Sheffield at one point being the workshops of the world. Skip forward to 2016 and we’re...

Cisco recently announced a new Cisco product family, and the next generation of hyperconverged infrastructure: Cisco HyperFlex Systems. Cisco HyperFlex represents true hyperconvergence, combining innovative software defined storage and data services software with Cisco UCS, the proven system that unifies servers and networking like no other. Cisco HyperFlex, extends Cisco’s strategy of software defined, policy...

Research body IDC claims that digitisation is transforming businesses across every industry, creating a $2.1trillion global market opportunity by 2019. Achieving digitisation requires a digital network that goes beyond simple connectivity, but enables business innovation, generates insights and creates customer experiences. This network should reduce cost and complexity with new orchestration and automation capabilities, whilst...

A new initiative between Cisco and NetApp aims to help customers accelerate their journey to a modern data centre with FlexPod All-Flash FAS. The solution features FlexPod with NetApp All Flash FAS storage, Cisco UCS servers with the latest M4 processors and Cisco NEXUS 9K switches with Application-Centric Infrastructure (ACI). The solution is ideal for enterprises...

Organisations are being warned to patch their Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) products immediately after it was found they are vulnerable to a remote code execution bug. Cisco have released software updates to address this vulnerability and have instructed customers not to wait, but to follow the advisory available at this link. The vulnerability has...

This week, Cisco announced their intention to acquire Jasper, a company which delivers a cloud-based Internet of Things (IoT) service platform for millions of connected devices. Jasper enables enterprises to simplify and automate the management of IoT services across a wide range of connected products such as cars, printers, vending machines and many others. Cisco’s...

Mobility promises more productive work styles and innovative ways to serve customers. Streamline your organisation’s mobility journey with SCC and Cisco Mobility Solutions. Start by deploying secure mobile device access with on-premises and cloud-managed Cisco BYOD solutions that help ensure the highest levels of security and user experience. You can then progress to deliver all...

The Cisco 2016 Annual Security Report looks at how organisations can achieve attack resilience in the digital age. Cisco threat intelligence and trend analyses reveal advances by both the security industry and criminals. The Cisco 2016 Annual Security Report examines how you can strengthen your defences by investing for resilience. It also outlines how security...