Cisco to announce overhaul
On Tuesday the Silicon Valley giant is expected to announce an overhaul of its most popular product, a switching system called the Catalyst 6500 that it estimates has generated $42 billion in revenue since 1999.
The hardware is a mainstay for linking computers together on corporate networks, and a big target for competitors such as Hewlett-Packard, whose rivalry with Cisco has become increasingly intense.
According to CRN, HP is touting first-quarter market share gains against rival Cisco Systems, even as a leading market researcher warns it is simply too early to tell just what kind of impact HP's networking business is having on Cisco.
With Cisco Live, the networking leader's premier end-user technology event taking place in Las Vegas, HP issued a press release Monday pointing to market share gains across all networking segments, including network switching/routers, in every region of the world in the first calendar quarter of 2011.
Computing reports that the show will see product and strategy announcements from Cisco and other networking and IT vendors. Presentations will focus on cloud computing, with topics including "Monetising the cloud", "Scaling the cloud", "Cloud security concerns", and "Cloud computing and virtualisation".
The cloud has featured heavily in Cisco's plans ever since it introduced its Unified Computing System (UCS) in June 2009 in an effort to grab a major share of cloud computing and enterprise on-premise (private cloud) deployments.
Share