The products include the Converged Office unified communications suite, Multimedia Conferencing, and solutions for branch offices and hosted service providers
'A ton of little changes, but no real killer features,' says one analyst of the software that ships in February. But ending support for Server 2000 may drive adoption
Enterprise branch offices increasingly need the same IT tools that the head office has, and Cisco Systems Inc. has unveiled branch networking gear to help fill that need.
An executive says its third-biggest acquisition following Compaq and Mercury will overcome the challenge it faced with home grown data centre automation software. Analysts give the transaction a once-over
Cisco Systems announced the addition of "tunnel-less" virtual private network technology and several other improvements to its family of integrated services routers (ISR), which are widely used in branch offices.
Eyeing some 23 million branch offices worldwide, Microsoft Corp. and Citrix Systems Inc. have announced a collaboration to develop a new line of branch office appliances, with the first device in the family scheduled to ship by the end of 2007.