Cisco announced fourth quarter and fiscal year 2011 annual performance report

Fourth quarter net sales: $ 11.2 billion
Fourth quarter net income: on a GAAP basis was $ 1.2 billion, non-GAAP net income of $ 2.2 billion
Fourth quarter earnings per share: GAAP basis $ 0.22; non-GAAP earnings per share of $ 0.40

Fiscal year 2011 net sales: $ 43.2 billion

Fiscal Year 2011 Net Income: GAAP basis of $ 6.5 billion; non-GAAP net income of $ 9.0 billion

Fiscal year 2011 earnings per share: $ 1.17 on a GAAP basis; non-GAAP earnings per share $ 1.62
CTI Forum (ctiforum) 8 月 11 (reporter Zhang Jie): worldwide leader in networking that transforms how people connect, communicate and collaborate, network solutions provider Cisco Systems Inc. today announced deadline to July 30, 2011 2011 fiscal fourth quarter and full year performance report. The report shows that fourth-quarter net sales of $ 11.2 billion, according to generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) net income of 12 billion or $ 0.22 per share, non-GAAP net income of $ 2.2 billion, $ 0.40 per share .

Cisco’s acquisition of online collaboration tools vendors Versly San Francisco

Cisco announced Monday that it has acquired San Francisco start-ups Versly. The company develops integrated with Microsoft Office applications, online collaboration tools.

Cisco did not disclose financial terms of the deal. After the acquisition, Versly all employees will join Cisco’s Collaboration Software Group. By Versly developed plug-in, a team of members to Word, Excel, PowerPoint files, and e-mail for collaborative editing. Currently, Versly product is still in closed beta.

Murari, general manager of Cisco’s Collaboration Software Group strum (Murali Sitaram) said, attaches great importance to collaboration is an area of ​​Cisco. Through this acquisition, Cisco will strengthen collaboration software products, improve the user experience. “We will integrate enterprise applications of social technologies.” In the future, Versly software will be integrated into Cisco’s Quad, Jabber and WebEx and other products.

According to published some information, Versly had already completed a round of seed financing, investors include Accel Partners, Baseline Ventures, 500 Startups and some angel investors. The company’s founders include former executives of The Benjamin Renaud and former Yahoo employees Eric Eccles (Erik Eccles).

Cisco will pay $ 31 million acquisition of UK subsidiary Comptel

Beijing time on August 22 evening news, Cisco announced today, will be 21.3 million euros (about $ 31 million) cash acquisition of UK subsidiary Comptel (formerly known as “Axiom Systems”) of software assets and employees. Cisco’s 2008 acquisition of Axiom Systems.

Through this acquisition, Cisco hopes to expand its IP network platform, network and service management, ensuring service providers a single management structure in order to provide users with faster new video, data, mobile and cloud services. Axiom Systems will strengthen Cisco’s Cisco Prime products, to ensure that service providers better manage their networks and network services.

Cisco anticipates this transaction will be completed the third quarter of 2011, Axiom Systems team will be integrated into Cisco’s Network Management Technology Group (NMTG) and Advanced Services Division (ASG). Comptel Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and director Gareth Western-Neil (Gareth Senior) will join Cisco.

HP ALM does the Kanban

In response to the needs of the “agile” programming pendant Hewlett-Packard has its Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) suite for the application development manager strengthened an emerging development methodology called kanban use.

“Kanban is basically just keep on sticky notes. We can actually do in the GUI,” said Kelly Emo, the team of product marketing for HP ALM heads. “In the ALM, you see the yellow sticky and click on it and all information – history of user errors in the code – is exposed for you.”
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Former engineer who sued Cisco now faces hacking charges

A one-time Cisco engineer who had sued his former employer, alleging it monopolized the business of servicing and maintaining Cisco equipment, has been charged by U.S. authorities with hacking.

Peter Alfred-Adekeye, who left Cisco in 2005 to form two networking support companies, has been charged with 97 counts of intentionally accessing a protected computer system without authorization for the purposes of commercial advantage, according to an arrest warrant. He faces 10 years in prison and a US$250,000 fine if convicted on the charges.
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