{"id":8309,"date":"2012-11-19T17:33:21","date_gmt":"2012-11-19T23:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=8309"},"modified":"2012-11-19T17:33:21","modified_gmt":"2012-11-19T23:33:21","slug":"cisco-acquires-meraki-to-strengthen-cloud-networking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=8309","title":{"rendered":"Cisco Acquires Meraki to Strengthen Cloud Networking"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Meraki boasts a number of cloud-related offerings, from Ethernet switches and security appliances to a mobile device management platform and wireless LAN. Founded in 2006 and subsequently funded by a number of prominent firms, including Sequoia Capital and Google, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.meraki.com\/company\/about\">Meraki touts itself<\/a> as a shop for \u201ceasy-to-manage wireless, switching, and security solutions.\u201d Business segments include supporting Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) shops, retail analytics, and massive networks managed from a central point.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/topic\/cloud\/cisco-acquires-meraki-to-strengthen-cloud-networking\/\">Cisco Acquires Meraki to Strengthen Cloud Networking<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Also from: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lightreading.com\/document.asp?doc_id=227125&amp;\">Cisco to Buy Cloupia for Cloud Management &#8211; IP &amp; Convergence &#8211; Telecom News Analysis &#8211; Light Reading Service Provider IT<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lightreading.com\/document.asp?doc_id=187795\" target=\"new\">Service Provider Information Technology (SPIT)<\/a> player Cloupia calls itself a &#8220;a leading data center orchestration and cloud management software provider&#8221; and has worked with Cisco and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lightreading.com\/complink_redirect.asp?vl_id=3740\" target=\"new\">NetApp Inc.<\/a> (Nasdaq: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lightreading.com\/quote.asp?Account=lightreading&amp;Page=QUOTE&amp;Ticker=NTAP\">NTAP<\/a>), providing management for Cisco switches and NetApp storage appliances. The company&#8217;s speciality is providing provisioning, monitoring and management for physical, virtual, and cloud environments.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meraki boasts a number of cloud-related offerings, from Ethernet switches and security appliances to a mobile device management platform and wireless LAN. Founded in 2006 and subsequently funded by a number of prominent firms, including Sequoia Capital and Google, Meraki &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=8309\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[580,56,67,60],"class_list":["post-8309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-acquisitions","tag-cisco","tag-cloud-computing","tag-management-systems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8310,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8309\/revisions\/8310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}