Cisco's revenue and profits from its multitude of businesses rose during the most recently completed fiscal quarter, with increased sales in many of the markets the company caters to, including its enterprise data center products such as networking gear and the Unified Computing system.

Among new customers to deploy the less-than-one-year-old UCS during the second quarter of Cisco's fiscal 2010, ended January 23, was TASER, a company most widely known for its stun guns. On Wednesday, data center provider Savvis also announced that it would deploy the UCS at its Chicago data center.

A large networking gear deployment during the quarter was at an Onet.pl Group data center in Poland. The company deployed Nexus 7000 and 5000 series switches and Nexus 2000 fabric extenders. The facility was built to run up to 5,000 servers.

During the quarter, Cisco made a big splash by announcing a partnership with EMC and VMware, whereby the three companies will jointly provide a full-stack IT solution that includes UCS gear, EMC storage equipment and VMware virtualization technology.

Late in January, after the second fiscal quarter's end, the company made a similar agreement with one of EMC's major competitors NetApp.

During the quarter, Cisco also completed the acquisition of ScanSafe, a provider of cloud-based security software services, and Starent, a maker of IP-based mobile infrastructure equipment.

Cisco reported net sales of $9.8 billion in the second quarter of the company's fiscal 2010 and a net income of $1.9 billion. Both figures represented an increase from the same period during the previous year, when the company reported a revenue of $9.1 billion and a net income of $1.5 billion.