Cisco Systems Inc. typically announces some new products at its annual reseller event, Partner Summit this week in Miami. But equally important are initiatives to enable its global ecosystem of partners to be more successful by directing them into emerging areas, since about 90% of its business flows through the channel.

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AI and security highlight day one at Cisco Partner Summit

It has been a busy few days this week at WebexOne in Anaheim, where Cisco Systems Inc. revealed a number of new products and solutions for its conferencing and collaboration unit, including devices powered by Nvidia Corp.’s artificial intelligence engine.

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Innovation galore at WebexOne: This isn’t your father’s Webex

High-frequency trading markets have relied on 10G infrastructure for more than a decade, and Arista Networks Inc. has been at the forefront, providing essential equipment to financial institutions such as trading firms and exchanges.

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It’s back to the future for Arista with new high-frequency trading switches

Pure Storage Inc. today made several announcements aimed at further bringing a cloudlike operating model to storage and simplifying data resilience.

First, the company released a set of data resilience offerings, including Pure Protect//DRaaS, which it says is a disaster recovery-as-a-service solution, new energy efficiency guarantees for its Evergreen products, and scalable artificial intelligence-powered storage services aimed at global enterprises through its Pure1 management platform.

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Pure Storage pays the freight for storage-as-a-service and aims to simplify data resilience

Unified communications provider Mitel Networks Inc. today announced it has closed on the transaction with Atos SE to purchase Unify, formerly Siemens Enterprise.

In January of this year, Mitel announced it had entered exclusive negotiations to acquire Unify, expecting to close in the year’s second half. All the regulatory issues have been cleared, and the two companies are set to come together.

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Mitel closes deal to acquire Unify from Atos