Cisco buys another $13.3 million of VMware shares

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Cisco buys another $13.3 million of VMware shares

Posted by Alessandro Perilli | Saturday, November 01, 2008 |

With much surprise yesterday Cisco announced a new investment in VMware, buying 500,000 shares from Intel for a value of $13,3 million.

The networking giant already invested $150 million in July 2007 just before the VMware IPO.
With this new equity stake acquisition Cisco owns 1,7% of the virtualization vendor.

The relationship between the two has progressively tightened because Cisco is developing the first virtual switch for VMware Infrastructure 4: the Nexus 1000V.

A lot of things are interesting in this move:

Intel gave away its shares despite it’s rumored interest to acquire VMware (which may be the reason behind the removal of Diane Greene as CEO).
Cisco continues to invest in VMware despite it’s rumored interest to acquire Citrix
Cisco still doesn’t tell what hypervisor is using for its new WAAS 4.1 appliance but it seems unlikely that it’s ESX or ESXi.

Labels: Cisco, Funding, VMware

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