2012年11月18日星期日

Cisco to acquire cloud networking company Meraki for $1.2 billion


Cisco thought Sunday it intends to get hold of Meraki, a vendor of machinery on behalf of cloud based management of wireless LAN, security appliances, and cell policy on behalf of US$1.2 billion in the sphere of coins and retention-based incentives.

The acquisition of Meraki, a privately-held company in the sphere of San Francisco, complements and expands Cisco's strategy to offer additional software-centric solutions to simplify make contacts management, help customers authorize cell workforces, and generate new to the job revenue opportunities on behalf of partners, Cisco thought in the sphere of a statement.

Cisco is targeting Meraki's machinery on behalf of secure, cloud managed networks by the side of midmarket businesses around the humankind who absence to get by their networks from the cloud.

Meraki was founded in the sphere of 2006 by doctorate candidates from Massachusetts Institute of machinery. The three founders of the company table to stay on to the same degree leaders of a new to the job "Cloud Networking Group" inside Cisco, to persist towards their goal of US$1 billion in the sphere of twelve-monthly revenue, Meraki first in command and co-founder Sanjit Biswas thought in the sphere of a note to employees. The categorize yearn for persist its development of new to the job skin texture, enhancements, and entirely new to the job products with no disruption, and yearn for additionally drive to "cloudify" other Cisco products.

Whilst Cisco approached Meraki with an acquisition offer a the minority weeks before, the opening answer of the founders was to decline and persist with tactics to take the company communal, Biswas thought. "After several weeks of consideration, we categorical dear departed carry on week with the aim of combination Cisco was the totally path on behalf of Meraki, and yearn for help us complete our goal of having top figure bearing," he added.

Furthermore offering an charismatic cost, Cisco on hand Meraki's departments the opportunity to keep liability what did you say? They are liability, and preserve its culture and natural world in the sphere of the Cloud Networking categorize hard up in the sphere of San Francisco, Biswas thought.

Meraki this time achieved a $100 million bookings run-rate, shipped an alternative main artifact species, grew from 120 to 330 employees, and became cash-flow assured, he added.

The acquisition is likely to close in the sphere of the succeeding quarter of Cisco's fiscal time 2013, branch of learning to customary concluding conditions, plus regulatory assessment.

Cisco thought carry on week it considered to get hold of privately held Cloupia, a software company with the aim of develops products on behalf of automating data spotlight operations, allowing enterprises and service providers to automate the consumption and configuration of pure and virtual infrastructure from a single management console. 




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