IBM (NYSE: IBM), Intel and Cisco announced today that they have opened a High-Performance Computing (HPC) Center, expanding IBM’s existing HPC facility here. The expanded state-of-the-art HPC center will offer customers, business partners and independent software vendors the ability to test and benchmark analytic software, engineering, aerospace design and other high-performance applications.

His Excellency Amr Al Dabbagh, Governor and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Saudi Arabian General Investment Authority (SAGIA), and John Chambers, Cisco chairman and chief executive officer, today inaugurated the "Smart Office" of SAGIA's new Riyadh head office, a state-of-the-art building powered by next-generation infrastructure from Cisco.

Cisco announced that it has completed its acquisition of Navini Networks, Inc., a leader in the Mobile WiMAX 802.16e-2005 broadband wireless industry.

Cisco®, the worldwide leader in networking that transforms how people connect, communicate and collaborate, today announced the resignation of executive vice president, Chief Development Officer Charles Giancarlo, 50, who has decided to pursue new professional opportunities.

On-demand collaboration applications and services leader WebEx, now part of Cisco®, and Jamcracker, an on-demand services delivery company, today announced that they are working together to allow service providers to offer WebEx WebOffice through the Jamcracker Services Delivery Network (JSDN).

Cisco® announced that it has closed the acquisition of Securent, Inc., a leading provider of policy management software for enterprises. Securent's scalable, distributed policy platform will help allow enterprises to administer, enforce, and audit access to data, communications, and applications in heterogeneous IT application environments.

Cisco® today announced new products and tools to support high performance computing environments. The new Cisco SFS 3504 Multifabric Switch is a gateway switch designed to accelerate server to storage application performance using centralized high speed storage uplinks.

Cisco® today announced that it has been collaborating with Oracle in the development and validation of Reliable Datagram Sockets, an acceleration protocol to further scale Oracle® Real Application Clusters (RAC) 11g, using InfiniBand.

Cisco® today announced a venture capital initiative targeting the technology industry in Central and Eastern Europe 1 . Cisco will pursue investment opportunities in technology-related start-ups in the region, both directly as well as indirectly through a regional venture fund.

Cisco® and IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced joint front office solutions that are poised to transform the retail banking experience by enhancing customer interaction and collaboration across all types of delivery channels, such as branches, contact centers and self-service kiosks.

Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) and IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced joint front office solutions that are poised to transform the retail banking experience by enhancing customer interaction and collaboration across all types of delivery channels, such as branches, contact centers and self-service kiosks.

Cisco®, the worldwide leader in networking that transforms how people connect, communicate and collaborate, today reported its first quarter results for the period ended October 27, 2007.