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Starcloud closes $250m Series A extension at $2.3bn valuation to scale AI on orbital data centers
ODC pioneer secures nearly half a billion dollars of investment to prove out space computing
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Quantum firm Atom Computing secures $100m Series C funding
Third Point Ventures, DCVC, and Cisco Investments put money into Atom's atomic array-based tech
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Cisco plans to bring SONiC foundation to customers beyond just hyperscalers
Blog post inadvertently reveals SONiC support for data center switches will extend to enterprises, neoclouds
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AMD debuts MI350 PCIe card to accelerate enterprise AI workloads
Chip giant extends accelerator peripheral lineup as it looks to meet bandwidth-booming workload demands
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Cisco partners with e-waste recycling firm DEScycle to trial metal recovery platform
Demonstration project to be conducted at plant in Wilton, UK
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Next-gen switches & servers: Everything unveiled at Cisco Live EMEA 2026
Showcase in Amsterdam debuts 100Tbps network silicon, ultra-high bandwidth pluggable optics, and a unified control plane
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AI chip company Groq raises $750m at $6.9bn valuation
Round was led by investment firm Disruptive
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Cisco’s Qunnect investment fuels its quantum focus
Quantum networking toward a quantum Internet
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Cisco unveils prototype quantum network entanglement chip
Company has also opened quantum lab in Santa Monica, California
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Groq closes $640m funding round; hires Meta and former HP and Intel execs
Latest round values company at $2.8bn
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Florida man pleads guilty to selling more than $100m of counterfeit Cisco gear
Onur Aksoy founded 19 companies to sell faulty or poor-quality networking devices
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US government blacklists China's largest server maker Inspur, used by Cisco, IBM, Intel, Nvidia
Company is also a cloud provider in China
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Cisco details SaltStack flaws that led to multiple hacks
Six servers were left vulnerable by a flawed software package
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Cisco Live: AppDynamics update, Kubernetes app platform, and a 6U Edge data center
Cisco improves app monitoring and deployment, and puts HyperFlex blades in Schneider's 6U wall-mounted box
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Cisco to acquire Acacia Communications for $2.6 billion
The deal is expected to close halfway through 2020
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Cisco releases patches for two critical vulnerabilities in its Data Center Network Manager
The two flaws, which registered at 9.8 out of 10 on Cisco's Common Vulnerability Scoring System, have now been patched
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Intel, Google and others join forces for CXL interconnect
CXL is designed to create a high-speed, low latency interconnect between the CPU and workload accelerators
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Cisco to acquire hyperconvergence start-up Springpath for $320m
As it attempts to reinvent itself as a software company
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Synergy: Dell EMC, Cisco, HPE top cloud infrastructure market
Total cloud revenue passed $70 billion mark in Q4, says study
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Cisco to acquire container start up ContainerX
The company is set to develop “a comprehensive cloud-native stack” for app containers
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Cisco updates storage networking portfolio
Enables 40 Gigabit connectivity for IP storage traffic
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White-box servers experience a surge in popularity
Research suggests a shift away from traditional infrastructure
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HP claims the top spot in cloud infrastructure equipment sales
Consistent growth by HP drops Cisco to second place
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Cisco gives up on Invicta all-flash storage arrays
The $415 million acquisition of Whiptail fails to deliver
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White Space 5: Rouvers and Swervers
We can guess how Cisco boss Chuck Robbins chooses his victims, but we are stumped by the meaning of “rouver”
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VCE launches scalable VxBlocks
EMC’s converged hardware arm makes vBlocks that can be pooled
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Apple joins Open Compute Project
Cisco and Juniper Networks, and Apple all join at Open Compute Summit