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• Dell charges ahead with server market lead

  Dell has taken out the top spot in the worldwide server market in the second quarter of 2018, holding 18.8 per cent revenue share.

• Unified comms market boosted by subscription base surge

  More than 300,000 unified communications-as-a-service subscriber seats were added to the global installed base during the second quarter of 2018.

• Cisco Meraki is going big on SD-WAN, here's how

  Getting wide area network links up and securely running quickly with minimal IT irritation has always been Cisco Meraki’s strong suite.

• SaaS spending soars as incumbent vendors go to war with upstarts

  Traditional enterprise software vendors are slugging it out with born-in-the-cloud players such as Workday, Zendesk, ServiceNow and Dropbox.

• Cisco recruits Microsoft talent to run Philippines

  Cisco has appointed Karrie Ilagan as country manager of Philippines, as the vendor builds out customer and channel capabilities locally.

• Cisco’s global channel chief resigns

  Wendy Bahr has announced her decision to vacate her role as senior vice president of global partner organisation at Cisco.

• Cisco software, subscription strategies pay off

  Cisco’s strategy of diversifying into a more software-optimised business is paying off - literally.

• Security bets pay off as Cisco reports strong financials

  Cisco has reported quarterly revenue above Wall Street estimates, driven by growth in the vendor's newer businesses such as cyber security.

• How voice technology will re-shape business

  Voice tech and virtual assistants like Google Assistant, Alexa and Cortana are expected to make a big splash in the enterprise.

• Cisco, Arista settle lawsuit, refocus battle on network, data centre, switching arenas

  After nearly four years of slashing at each other in court with legal swords Cisco and Arista have agreed to disagree, mostly.

• Regional Cisco channel security leader exits for Tenable

  Diwakar Dayal has joined Tenable as managing director for India and SAARC, vacating his security channel sales position at Cisco.

• Cisco, VMware, Silver Peak and Riverbed battle for SD-WAN supremacy

  The software-defined wide area network infrastructure market is hotting up with 40.4 per cent growth forecast until 2022.

• Arista will pay Cisco $400M to resolve court fight

  Arista Networks will pay US$400 million to Cisco to resolve a U.S. court fight between the two network equipment makers.

• Cisco pays a cool $2.3B for hot security specialists Duo

  Cisco has laid out US$2.35 billion in cash and stock for network identity, authentication security company Duo.

• Kubernetes key as Google and Cisco amp-up enterprise cloud integration

  Kubernetes, originally designed by Google, is an open-source-based system for developing and orchestrating containerised applications.