Comments on: Cisco to Buy EMC? Don't Hold Your Breath http://gigaom.com/2008/10/02/another-victim-of-the-economic-crisis-cisco%e2%80%99s-acquisition-of-emc/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 03:10:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Cisco’s Data Center Play Paves the Way for More M&A http://gigaom.com/2008/10/02/another-victim-of-the-economic-crisis-cisco%e2%80%99s-acquisition-of-emc/#comment-148657 Tue, 24 Mar 2009 15:19:20 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=23425#comment-148657 [...] Storage: Here’s where Cisco will try to mimic IBM and HP’s existing storage businesses. NetApp, a current Cisco partner, and the big fish in the storage pond, EMC, are both potential buys (with EMC, Cisco might get its virtualization partner VMware, too). UBS thinks a NetApp deal is more likely simply because it’s smaller. We think EMC is a bit too much for Cisco, too. [...]

]]> By: Allan Leinwand http://gigaom.com/2008/10/02/another-victim-of-the-economic-crisis-cisco%e2%80%99s-acquisition-of-emc/#comment-148656 Sat, 04 Oct 2008 02:15:04 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=23425#comment-148656 @Pebbles – Agreed, I keep hearing the rumors and had heard it was goign to happen this year. But, with the economic crisis, this has to be on hold for now, IMHO. Thanks for the links.

@Tim – I agree and did not cover many of the angles of how this acquisition will change corporate IT globally – I suspect that will be covered in extensive detail when and if this deal occurs. I wanted to focus on how the economic crisis is affecting this rumored deal.

]]> By: Tim http://gigaom.com/2008/10/02/another-victim-of-the-economic-crisis-cisco%e2%80%99s-acquisition-of-emc/#comment-148655 Fri, 03 Oct 2008 16:21:19 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=23425#comment-148655 Allan- Your article is perceptive but I wish you had stressed more on a key linkage here which is, with the onset of SaaS and Cloud Services in the Enterprise and SMB segments, Storage is in essence becoming a network function.

Backup/restore/Disaster Recovery/Collaboration/ Email Archiving/ ….you need Network and Storage to go hand-in-hand.

]]> By: Pebbles http://gigaom.com/2008/10/02/another-victim-of-the-economic-crisis-cisco%e2%80%99s-acquisition-of-emc/#comment-148654 Fri, 03 Oct 2008 15:55:14 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=23425#comment-148654 The stories are at:

http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/27939

http://searchstorage.techtarget.com/news/column/0,294698,sid5_gci1102991,00.html

http://localtechwire.com/business/local_tech_wire/opinion/story/1164057

]]> By: Pebbles http://gigaom.com/2008/10/02/another-victim-of-the-economic-crisis-cisco%e2%80%99s-acquisition-of-emc/#comment-148653 Fri, 03 Oct 2008 15:53:26 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=23425#comment-148653 This is a story as old as Cisco’s venture into the non-networking domain. Every year, there’s a rumor, and every year Cisco denies it. For example, the last couple of reports are:

1. 2008
2. 2007
3. 2005

Interestingly, EMC doesn’t deny these rumors.

]]> By: IT Megamergers’ Effects on IT Departments: What They Mean for You? - Dennis Byron http://gigaom.com/2008/10/02/another-victim-of-the-economic-crisis-cisco%e2%80%99s-acquisition-of-emc/#comment-148652 Fri, 03 Oct 2008 14:42:46 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=23425#comment-148652 [...] rumor about Cisco acquiring EMC — which means acquiring VMware — has been floating around Wall Street for a few months. So like [...]

]]> By: Allan Leinwand http://gigaom.com/2008/10/02/another-victim-of-the-economic-crisis-cisco%e2%80%99s-acquisition-of-emc/#comment-148651 Fri, 03 Oct 2008 14:23:44 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=23425#comment-148651 @Alex – not sure storage is sexy. Maybe a combination of data networking and storage is sexy to an enterprise CIO though ;)

@Cheena Solis Belmonte – I wish I knew.

]]> By: Cheena Solis Belmonte http://gigaom.com/2008/10/02/another-victim-of-the-economic-crisis-cisco%e2%80%99s-acquisition-of-emc/#comment-148650 Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:43:55 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=23425#comment-148650 “So for now, it seems likely that Cisco will need to put its rumored acquisition on hold until the economic crisis gets resolved.”

And when would that be?

]]> By: Alex http://gigaom.com/2008/10/02/another-victim-of-the-economic-crisis-cisco%e2%80%99s-acquisition-of-emc/#comment-148649 Fri, 03 Oct 2008 05:18:00 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=23425#comment-148649 and who thought that storage was sexy?

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