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Cisco buying ScanSafe for $183 million

Cisco has announced plans to buy privately held ScanSafe, a maker of software-as-a-service (SaaS) Web security services for enterprises and small-to-midsize businesses, for $183 million. Read full story

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Extreme Networks last week bid adieu to its CEO and 9% of its workforce -- or about 70 people -- before announcing today that its first quarter fell far short of expectations. It begs the question of whether Extreme, with a flat 1.5% revenue share of the $19 billion Ethernet switching market for the past two years, can continue to survive at this pace.

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Dell and Juniper Networks this week reached an OEM agreement that will let Dell offer Juniper products to data center customers under its PowerConnect brand.

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