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Chambers Promises Changes at Cisco, But the Task Ahead Is a Big One

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on April 6, 2011 at 7:48 am PT

Cisco CEO John Chambers promises changes, but problems at the networking giant run deep.

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VC-Backed Companies Could Be Next On H-P's Shopping List

Scott Denne, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on November 12, 2009 at 4:58 pm PT

When Hewlett-Packard Co. announced the $2.7 billion purchase of 3Com Corp., it let the world know that H-P intends to compete fully with Cisco Systems Inc. in the corporate data center. With its strength in Ethernet, 3Com gives HP a major piece of the pie, but it still needs a few more slices if it wants to be a one-stop-shop for data centers.