Cisco and Microsoft partner for Branch Office connectivity
ENT News | at | by Mike
On-again, off-again partners Cisco Systems Inc. and Microsoft -- who nominally compete in the endpoint security space (Microsoft touts a NAC vision of its own) and business telephony segments (Microsoft has made an aggressive incursion into a segment that Cisco itself hopes to dominate) -- are as cozy as ever again.
The vendors touted a new and inevitably to-be-delivered offering based on Redmond's forthcoming Windows Server 2008 operating system and Cisco's WAN optimization technology.