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Our fiscal 2013 Data Center product innovations were designed to further our strategy of enabling customers to consolidate
both physical and virtualized workloads with unique application requirements onto a single unified, scalable, centrally
managed, and automated system. Our strategy has resulted in a portfolio of standalone and converged infrastructure solutions
designed to preserve customer choice, accelerate business initiatives, reduce risk, lower the cost of IT, and represent a
comprehensive solution when collectively deployed.
Security
Security is a significant business concern, and we believe it is a top investment priority for our customers. Security threats
continue to escalate, resulting in the loss of revenue, intellectual property, and reputation. Our security portfolio of products
and services offers identity, network, and content security solutions designed to enable customers to reduce the impact of
threats and realize the benefits of a mobile, collaborative, and cloud-enabled business. Our products in this category span
firewall, intrusion prevention, remote access, virtual private networks (VPNs), unified clients, network admission control, web
gateways, and email gateways. Our AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client solution enables users to access networks with their
mobile device of choice, such as laptops and smartphone-based mobile devices, while allowing organizations to manage the
security risks of networks. Our cloud-based web security service is designed to provide real-time threat protection and to
prevent malware from reaching corporate networks, including roaming or mobile users. We provide security solutions that are
designed to be integrated, timely, comprehensive, and effective, helping to ensure holistic security for organizations
worldwide.
During fiscal 2013, we extended our security solutions to address the expanding needs of our customers. These solutions focus
on fortifying our data centers against threats and on enhancing email and web security to meet the stringent requirements of a
more mobile workforce. We also completed our acquisition of Cognitive Security, the product line of which applies artificial
intelligence techniques to detect advanced cyberthreats.
In the fourth quarter of fiscal 2013 we announced that we entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Sourcefire, Inc.
(“Sourcefire”), a leader in intelligent cybersecurity solutions. Sourcefire delivers innovative, highly automated security
through continuous awareness, threat detection and protection across its portfolio, including next-generation intrusion
prevention systems, next-generation firewalls, and advanced malware protection. With the Sourcefire acquisition, we aim to
accelerate our security strategy of defending, discovering, and remediating advanced threats to provide continuous security
solutions to our customers in more places across the network.
Other Products
Our Other Products category primarily consists of certain emerging technologies and other networking products.
Service
In addition to our product offerings, we provide a broad range of service offerings, including technical support services and
advanced services.
Technical support services help ensure that our products operate efficiently, remain available, and benefit from the most up-to-
date system software that we have developed. These services help customers protect their network investments and minimize
downtime for systems running mission-critical applications. A key example of this is our Cisco Smart Services offering, which
leverages the intelligence from Cisco’s millions of devices and customer connections to protect and optimize network
investment for our customers and partners.
Advanced services are services that are part of a comprehensive program that is designed to provide responsive, preventive,
and consultative support of our technologies for specific networking needs. The advanced services program supports
networking devices, applications, solutions, and complete infrastructures. Our service and support strategy seeks to capitalize
on increased globalization, and we believe this strategy, along with our architectural approach, has the potential to further
differentiate us from competitors.
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