Comments on: Cisco to Buy Tidal as Part of Its Data Center Rush

By: Jennifer Hayes

Jennifer Hayes — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 19:28:10 +0000

Cisco’s purchase of Tidal is definitely a good move. Data center automation and virtualization technologies, from Tidal for automating routine operational tasks to my company Racemi for automating image capture and provisioning, are designed to enhance usability, efficiency, and even disaster recovery. No longer are the days users must stop everything for an application update or failure. As time-consuming tasks, redundant or complex, are replaced by these automation technologies, spending $105 million is well worth the investment for Cisco and its customers.

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[...] With its roughly $30 billion in stockpiled cash, I like Cisco as pretty good candidate. They are pushing hard into the consumer/home market with their own products and the purchase of Flip Video as well as into the data center with the acquisition of CDN company Tidal last week. [...]

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Cisco’s CDN is for its “Comm-puters” « The SiliconANGLE — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 18:34:35 +0000

[...] Stacey Higginbotham picked up those tips and put it in context for us this morning in his reporting on the acquisition by Cisco of Tidal Software: Cisco this morning said it plans to acquire Tidal Software for $105 million in cash as part of its [...]

By: Ed Grafe

Ed Grafe — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 16:39:05 +0000

Wow… $105 million. This is a rounding error. Usually acquisitions are 2-3 times revenue but this number also includes executive retention. So Tidal was a small player in the job scheduling market. CISCO bought them for a point solution to help with virtualization. This just shows that Tidal was JNAP (just not a player) in the job scheduling space.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 16:28:21 +0000

Jason – You’re argument is flawed. If it’s a smart move now, well, it was a bad idea before. They could have saved loads of $$$ before by implementing this earlier.

By: Jason Lackey

Jason Lackey — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 15:43:21 +0000

Cisco is such a beast that the cutbacks in their cafeterias and measures like charging $1 for sodas along with a few trips to the telepresence office instead of execs flying business class will probably pay for this acquisition in a year.

Smart move.