{"id":4663,"date":"2012-11-19T12:30:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-19T12:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2451518"},"modified":"2012-11-19T12:30:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-19T12:30:00","slug":"cloud-computing-cisco-to-buy-meraki-for-1-2-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/cloud-computing-cisco-to-buy-meraki-for-1-2-billion\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloud Computing: Cisco To Buy Meraki for $1.2 Billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Late Sunday Cisco said it\u2019s going to buys Meraki, a privately held cloud<br \/>\nnetworking start-up, for $1.2 billion in cash and retention-based incentives.<\/p>\n<p>Seems social media upset the announcement plans, which were set for<br \/>\nMonday morning, when there\u2019ll still be a conference call.<\/p>\n<p>The acquisition is supposed to accelerate Cisco\u2019s evolution toward software-<br \/>\ndefined networking and expand its cloud-based network offerings to new<br \/>\nmarkets.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2451518\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Late Sunday Cisco said it\u2019s going to buys Meraki, a privately held cloud<br \/>\nnetworking start-up, for $1.2 billion in cash and retention-based incentives.<\/p>\n<p>Seems social media upset the announcement plans, which were set for<br \/>\nMonday morning, when there\u2019l&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}