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Cisco Systems has teamed up with Xerox to a mobile printing system that users can print from any device from anywhere on any printer to create.

The companies plan to make printing faster and easier for employees to move through routers and softswitches to make the process faster and safer. Cisco channel partners to sell technology and managed services provided by Xerox from a data center with Cisco UCS (Unified Computing System) servers, the company announced on Monday will arrive built.

With a portable printer, an employee can send a document from a smartphone device, tablet or other for a service that will make the document available to any printer within an organization. The employee can then go to one of these printers to punch in the code for the document and print it. This could overcome a problem with the widespread adoption of both mobile and desktop virtualization business caused, said analyst Rob Whiteley, Forrester Research. Printing is often overlooked, he said.

“The appetite to implement such changes is very high … and then, here, things like print quickly become one of the things that are just not working hard, or they work but there must be some sort of complex issues to manage, “said Whiteley.

A typical print ad hoc method to obtain a document from a mobile device to send e-mail to someone who is sitting near a printer and print it, he said. In addition to being cumbersome and time consuming, it can circumvent corporate security on the viewing or saving a document.

To quit printing from mobile devices is increasingly important as more users of mobile phones and tablets, but the technology is still in its infancy, said Angele Boyd, an analyst at IDC.

“The infrastructure is not there today,” said Boyd.

Xerox introduced a mobile printing system earlier this year, but left to companies or system integrators to deploy and configure. Other vendors, including Cisco rival Hewlett-Packard, have also introduced such systems. The idea behind the partnership between Xerox and Cisco provides the network in the image.

The company prints agents in Cisco routers and switches to build, starting with the ISR (Integrated Services Router), designed the popular multi-purpose router for small businesses and branch offices. They will also help Cisco WAN network acceleration products to travel faster print jobs and Cisco security tools to provide information not found in the wrong hands, the company said.

The technology does not require a Cisco network from end to end, the company said. In the future, Xerox wants to work with printers from other manufacturers of printers and outside own organization of the user, as seen in the office with a client.

Cisco and Xerox will provide printing features three mobile products. Xerox Managed Print Services (MPS) on Cisco Borderless Networks is a software product from Xerox that offers tools for companies to implement mobile printing services for their employees. The software has the advantage of IOS (Internetwork Operating System) provides network equipment Cisco, security, WAN optimization and pressure monitoring for mobile printing. Cisco channel partners will also be able to use Xerox MPS to provide these services to businesses. Xerox MPS should be offered by Cisco channel partners in the United States in July or August and Europe in January.

Xerox Cloud ITO Services is a set of services, including mobile printing, Xerox will offer companies and small businesses. Xerox services to move from the acquisition of ACS in the past year. They will run on Xerox data centers built with Cisco UCS (Unified Computing System) server and infrastructure Vblock made from Cisco networking and computing, EMC storage and VMware virtualization software. These services will also be sold by the Cisco channel. They are available from a limited and may be generally available in January next year, the company said.

It is also customer specific software for the Cisco Cius tablet and businesses for their virtualization Cisco devices Experience Client residing on the corporate desktop and can have a virtual desktop for users to write there. Users Xerox Mobile Print Solution can ensure that clients print documents on any printer in the company. The software will be available as soon as the Cius starts May 31

Cisco Systems has completed most of a major restructuring that began early this year, and on Wednesday posted revenue and profit for its fiscal first quarter that exceeded analysts’ expectations.

For the quarter ended Oct. 29, Cisco reported revenue of US$11.3 billion, up 4.7 percent from a year earlier, and net income of $1.8 billion or $0.33 per share. Earnings per share fell 2.9 percent from the year earlier.

Not counting certain one-time items, Cisco had net income of $2.3 billion or $0.43. The results were in line with the consensus of expectations from analysts polled by Thomson Financial, who forecast earnings of $0.39 per share on revenue of $11.02 billion.

The report was the first since Ciscoset a new long-term growth forecast at a financial analyst conference in September. The company now expects between 5 percent and 7 percent annual revenue gains over the next three years, following several quarters of disappointing results and a major reorganization. It expects earnings per share to increase between 7 percent and 9 percent per year.

In a press release on Wednesday, CEO John Chambers said a majority of the company’s reorganization was complete.

In its fiscal fourth-quarter report released in August, Cisco had posted a drop of more than one third in net income and an increase of only 3.3 percent in revenue from the year-earlier quarter.

Since early this year, the company has moved to sharpen its focus on five key areas of its business; core routing and switching, collaboration, data-center virtualization, video, and tying these elements together in an overall architecture.

Cisco Systems plans to acquire BNI Video, a privately held provider of video delivery software for service providers, for about US$99 million.

BNI’s software is designed to help service providers deliver any type of video to multiple devices at large scale. Cisco said the acquisition would help to advance Videoscape, the vision Cisco announced earlier this year for video delivery to any device. Cisco expects the deal to close in the second quarter of its fiscal year, which runs from November through January.

Videoscape, announced by Cisco CEO John Chambers at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in January, will help to simplify service providers’ management of video, according to Cisco. It includes a media gateway and a set-top box in a consumer’s home, along with software clients for various devices. Videoscape can also present video from different sources, including personal clips and online and traditional TV providers, on one screen.

BNI’s employees will be integrated into Cisco’s Service Provider Video Technology Group. It isn’t the first acquisition Cisco has made in pursuit of its carrier video vision. The company has also bought content-management-system vendor ExtendMedia and digital media processing company Inlet Technologies.

Cisco was already an investor in BNI, along with Time Warner Cable and Comcast Ventures. The company was founded in 2009. BNI is based in Boxborough, Massachusetts, and Cisco said it will strengthen the company’s presence in the greater Boston area, where in recent years it has acquired network management vendor LineSider Technologies and mobile back-end system provider Starent Networks.

Cisco profits in the fiscal fourth quarter fell by about a third more than last year, while sales rose only 3.3 percent, the company said Wednesday.

Net income for the fourth quarter ended July 30 was U.S. $ 1.2 billion, down 36.3 percent from 1.9 billion a year earlier. Earnings per share declined 33.3 percent to 22 cents a share from 33 cents for the last year for the fourth quarter.

The results are in the midst of a major restructuring at Cisco, aimed at refocusing the company on his heart in the art, such as routing and switching.

“We have made significant progress on our overall plan of action to us for our next growth phase and position of profitability, and provides strong financial results in the fourth quarter,” Chairman and CEO John Chambers said in a press release reporting financial results.

Cisco’s revenue rose to $ 11200000000 $ 10800000000 in the quarter. This figure beat the consensus estimate of analysts polled by Thomson Reuters. They planned $ 10980000000.

Profit excluding certain non-recurring items was $ 0.40 per share, slightly above analysts’ forecasts.

Chambers promised to accelerate the restructuring of Cisco, which was conducted in 6500 job cuts announced the abolition of the division of the company Flip Video and other adjustments. The process will continue at an even faster pace and will take years, not quarters, he said.

“It would be very easy on the changes we have made peace. … This is clearly not what we do,” Chambers said during a conference call to discuss financial results. He said Cisco is always a “aggressive, focused and simplified” the company. Cisco is ahead of plan, $ 1000000000 of its annual expenditure for the year 2012, said Chambers.

In response to questions from analysts, Chambers said, Cisco remains committed to its business television set-top box, if it is moved from left to the “connected home” that its business unit of Linksys home networking. The WebEx online conferencing service is part of a broader collaboration architecture, which is also a business networking Quad social platform, MediaNet and infrastructure will be sold. “We have too long outside,” said Chambers.

Cisco has already taken several steps to restructure, according to Gary Moore, the company recently appointed Chief Operating Officer. It has significantly reduced the number of committees and councils in key areas, instead of appointing leaders to account, and regional sales teams more autonomy, he said. The company employs approximately 23,000 people in a company with a workforce of just over 70 000 realigned. The overriding goal is to adapt more quickly to customer needs, Moore said.

In the long run, changes are right now to help Cisco to become more competitive with rivals, and not by the same process, the Chambers.

“Although I know we did not have to go through this, it was clearly time for a fundamental change to Cisco,” he said.

The company expects sales growth compared to about the same as in the previous period, even with a growth of between 1 and 4 percent.

Public spending, a weak point in the fourth quarter will slow down worldwide in the coming quarters, as governments to make cuts, Chambers believes. In the U.S., orders were from the federal budget by 18 percent over the previous year, while state and local orders fell by 2 percent. Two areas in which public authorities are continuing to invest cloud infrastructure and video, he said.

Despite the gloomy financial news of recent weeks, Chambers sounded an optimistic note. Sales and orders in the best emerging markets like Brazil, Russia, India, China and Mexico increased by 25 percent in the first quarter, he said. Cisco had its biggest quarter ever in sales and service provider, growing at a service provider contracts by 19 percent overall, and carrier infrastructure products such as the central hub routing and CRS ASR9000 switches 1000 and strong growth.

Meanwhile, Chambers said he thinks the worst is over for the decline in market share will grow in the Cisco and the capital of the company by industry routing.

In after-hours trading Wednesday, shares of Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) were $ 0.95 to $ 14.68.

Versly Cisco Systems, has acquired privately held start-up specializes in software development and solutions for more effective collaboration and productivity.

Versly the most important tool is a plug-in applications onMicrosoft Office, which enables collaboration on documents, spreadsheets, presentations and emails.

So far, it seems, all employees is Versly Cisco switch, if the transaction is completed.

Cisco said that the cooperative solutions are a priority for the company as it sets new priorities – especially as the company in San Jose, California-based shows this area as a target market worth $ 45000000000. Consumer devices do not meet these requirements for Cisco, but we have seen Cisco collaboration push applications in their other products, such as Cisco Ciustablet.

Murali Sitaram, vice president and general manager of Cisco Collaboration Software Group, said in a statement:

Collaboration is a top priority for Cisco. With this acquisition, we use to improve our services and cooperation to improve the user experience by integrating social technologies in business applications, individuals and teams at work.

Specifically Versly will be integrated into many of their own resources and solutions from Cisco, including Cisco Quad, Cisco, Cisco WebEx and Jabber.

Financial details of the transaction were not breast-feed.