Cisco Acquiring Cloupia to Extend Data Center Portfolio

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By Jon C. Ogg Updated Published
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Cisco Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO) is at it again, with yet one more acquisition. The company is acquiring Cloupia, a software company that automates converged data center infrastructure. Cisco will pay approximately $125 million in cash and retention-based incentives in exchange for all shares of Cloupia.

Cloupia is based in Santa Clara, Calif., and its solutions allow enterprises and service providers β€œto simplify the deployment and configuration of physical and virtual resources from a single management console.” Its infrastructure management software is said to enhance Cisco’s Unified Computing System and Nexus switching portfolio with a single β€œpane-of-glass” view into the automation of compute, network, storage, virtual machine and operating system resources.

Today’s acquisition of CloupiaΒ aligns to Cisco’s strategic goals to develop innovative data center, virtualization and cloud technologies, while also cultivating top talent. The company said that Cloupia employees will be integrated into Cisco’s Data Center Group. The acquisition is subject to various standard closing conditions and is expected to be completed in the second quarter of Cisco’s fiscal year 2013.

This is too small to make a difference in the near-term to Cisco’s bottom line, but it is yet one more move into the data center. If there is one thing you can say about Cisco’s M&A machine, it is that counting the number of acquisitions from Cisco is about as difficult as counting the number of kills from Conan the Barbarian. To prove that, here is the endless list of Cisco acquisitions.

JON C. OGG

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Jon Ogg has been a financial news analyst since 1997. Mr. Ogg set up one of the first audio squawk box services for traders called TTN, which he sold in 2003. He has previously worked as a licensed broker to some of the top U.S. and E.U. financial institutions, managed capital, and has raised private capital at the seed and venture stage. He has lived in Copenhagen, Denmark, as well as New York and Chicago, and he now lives in Houston, Texas. Jon received a Bachelor of Business Administration in finance at University of Houston in 1992. www.247wallst.com.

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