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Article: United States: Cisco, EMC Go Targeted for Services.
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- TendersInfo
- Article date:
- November 4, 2009
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Byline: shiv03
It seems like you can t blink these days without a tech-equipment maker getting into the services business. The latest to do so are Cisco Systems and EMC, which said Tuesday that they will launch a joint venture to build and install data-center products from the companies.
While rivals like H-P, Dell and Xerox all went big into services spending billions of dollars each to buy EDS, Perot Systems and ACS Cisco and EMC are taking a different approach. The new venture, called Acadia, will only have about 130 employees when it launches in the first quarter of 2010, says Cisco CEO John Chambers.
Succeeding in services is traditionally ...