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Top Story - Cisco Data Center Revamp Cuts across Switches, Servers, Storage

Cisco this week is expanding its data center product portfolio with a new switch, extensions to existing ones, and enhancements to its servers and software.

Top Story - The Full Impact Of Cisco's Job Cuts

When you combine this week's layoffs with other recent restructuring, Cisco has actually eliminated 12,050 jobs from its workforce, a reduction of 16.5% that includes the largest downsizing in the technology industry this year.

Top Story - Cisco Fabric Launch Seeks To Undermine Arista, IBM

In an effort to thwart the momentum of Arista Networks and IBM's BLADE Network Technologies business, Cisco announced what it claims is the first high-performance trading fabric optimized for the financial markets industry.

Top Story - Cisco Will be Leaner, Faster, More Attentive: Chambers

Cisco CEO John Chambers briefly addressed the company's current challenges, restructuring and imminent layoffs during his keynote address at this week's Cisco Live customer conference.

Top Story - Cisco Enterprise Management Tools Take On New Network Realities

Cisco broadened the security and management capabilities of its enterprise products to help IT shops get a better grip on mobile devices, video and changing workforce habits.

Top Story - 30 Events That Shaped Cisco in 2011

In 2011, Cisco came to the realization that its strategy for growth by entering new markets spread it too thin, distracted it from core markets and impacted profits.

Top Story - New Option with Cisco, Microsoft Cooperation on Virtual Switching

Cisco support will make Microsoft's Hyper-V environment more attractive to corporate customers, but it remains to be seen whether that's enough for Hyper-V to give VMware's ESXi a run for its money.

Top Story - Cisco Sending Enterprises to the Cloud

In an effort to accommodate enterprise users looking to implement private and hybrid clouds, Cisco in the coming months will unveil an "integrated" WAN routing system of existing, but enhanced, products.

Top Story - Arch Rivals Cisco and HP Collaborate on Blade Switch

Perhaps it's a matter of keeping your friends close but your enemies closer: Bitter data center and networking rivals Cisco and HP collaborated to develop a switch for HP's blade server systems to address the needs of joint customers.

Top Story - Cisco Data Center Forecast Very Cloudy

Global cloud computing traffic will grow 12-fold from now to 2015, according to a new Cisco study.