Cisco Whiptail Buy Looks Positive As Hard Servers Die Out

Hard drives are a dying breed. The unstable, fragile and power consuming beasts that have formed the base of most of our computers and all of our networks for a couple of decades are being replaced. Cisco Systems Inc. (NASDAQ:CSCO) is one of the companies at the forefront of destroying the last bastion of the hard drive, servers.

Cisco Systems Inc. (NASDAQ:CSCO) bought Whiptail, a flash storage maker, today.  Whiptail’s acquisition by Cisco Systems Inc. (NASDAQ:CSCO) cost $415 million, and the company is planning on integrating Whiptail into its...