Cisco Systems is making another attempt to capture a bigger share of the business of thwarting cybercriminals. The No. 1 maker of networking gear on Tuesday was set to announce that it has widened its target market for firewall services to midsize companies and is also offering an additional layer of malware protection it picked up through a company acquisition last year. Cisco Systems (CSCO) is extending new versions of its ASA Firewall with
IBM (IBM) is going all-in on the Internet of Things. The information technology giant said on Tuesday that it will plow $3 billion over the next four years into building a new Internet of Things unit. The company is also developing a cloud-based open platform to help customers and its partners build IoT products. IBM is among many companies, with notables that include Cisco Systems (CSCO), that are investing in the Internet of Things and the
Ciena (CIEN) could get more revenue than originally thought from its partnership with Cisco Systems to provide a 100-gigabit metro network for Verizon Communications. So concludes Catharine Trebnick, an analyst for Dougherty & Co., in a research report Wednesday, a day following Verizon ‘s (VZ) announcement that it had selected Ciena and Cisco (CSCO) to build a 100G network for the carrier to address its growing traffic growth issues. Ciena is a