Friday, November 20, 2015

Cisco Expands in Central London

Cisco inaugurated a new Central London office located at 10 Finsbury Square, just south of Silicon Roundabout in Tech City.  The office will host over 300 cloud technology professionals. Cisco said the new London location is in addition to the Finsbury Circus office that was opened in 2009, and will house a major part of its growing base of cloud-based technology division focused on mobility and security, which includes Meraki Networks. Beyond...

SC15 Attracted Attendance of Nearly 13,000

Last week's SC15 conference in Austin for high performance computing (HPC), networking, storage and analysis attracted a record-breaking 12,903+ registered attendees. The SC15 Exhibition was sold out, with 217 industry-focused exhibits, including 43 first-time exhibitors and 113 international exhibitors from 23 countries (outside the US). In all, there was a total of approx. 137,000 net square feet of exhibit space and 343 industry and research...

Sandvine Receives $4 Million Order

Sandvine reported an expansion order for more than $4 million from a major fixed line Communications Service Provider in North America that has been a customer since 2005. The purchase relates to Sandvine's Policy Traffic Switch (PTS) 32000 hardware. Approximately $1 million of the order value is expected to be recognized as revenue in the company's fourth quarter, with the remainder to be recognized in FY 2016. In its 2RU form factor, the PTS 32000...

Splunk's CEO Steps Down

Godfrey Sullivan, the Splunk's President and CEO, has stepped down and been replaced by Doug Merritt, who previously served as the Company’s Senior Vice President, Field Operations.  Sullivan will remain on the Board and serve as non-executive Board Chair.  Prior to joining Splunk, Merritt served as Senior Vice President of Products and Solutions Marketing at Cisco Systems, Inc., a networking company, from 2012 to 2014. From 2011 to 2012,...