Cisco enters storage fray with $415m Whiptail acquisition

Sooraj Shah
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Acquisition could put further strain on Cisco's relationship with EMC, VMware

Networking giant Cisco is to buy scalable solid state memory system provider Whiptail in a deal worth about $415m. According to Cisco, the deal would strengthen its Unified Computing System (UCS...

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