April 2011

Cisco acquisition
Cisco acquired five big companies over the past 12 months in a number of strategic moves that will enable it to grow into new markets; the most recent is the intention to acquire newScale, a software provider that allows companies to deploy cloud services within their businesses.Worldwide IT spending trends
As a reflection of the world economy, global IT spending has improved in 2010 and will continue to do so in 2011.IT network security attack events
Over the past year there has been a 27% increase in the number of DDOS attacks compared to the previous year, and the attacks are bigger.Cisco’s top priorities
John Chambers, Cisco’s CEO, outlined their priorities for the coming year or so in a recent broadcast. The priorities are collaboration, datacentre virtualisation, cloud computing, business architectures and video services.IT professionals of the future
If you don’t start hiring the right IT professionals now, you won’t be able to compete in the future.Used Cisco from Hardware.com
Hardware.com has been offering significant discounts on refurbished and used Cisco network hardware for a number of years – in response to customers’ requests for refurbished Cisco pricing.