Discover Cisco’s intention to acquire privately held WHIPTAIL: stakes and opportunities.

If achieved successfully, this acquisition will enable Cisco  to meet the increased performance demands on traditional storage array systems. This means evolve its UCS architecture by integrating data acceleration capability into the compute layer.

In fact, integrating WHIPTAIL's memory systems with UCS at a hardware and manageability level could simplify customers' data center environments by delivering the required performance in a fraction of the data center floor space with

unified management for provisioning and administration. 

Connectiikpeople has also discovered that, UCS's architectural advantages such as built-in automation and high performance fabrics could complement WHIPTAIL's high performance data services.

Upon completion of the acquisition, WHIPTAIL employees will be integrated into the Computing Systems Product Group led by Paul Perez, vice president and general manager.

Under the terms of the agreement, Cisco will pay approximately $415 million in cash and retention-based incentives in exchange for all shares of WHIPTAIL. The acquisition of WHIPTAIL is expected to be complete in the first quarter of fiscal year 2014, subject to customary closing conditions.

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