CISCO ANNOUNCES INTENT TO ACQUIRE TIDAL SOFTWARE

Intelligent Application Management and Automation Solutions
Will Advance Cisco’s Data Center Strategy

SAN JOSE, Calif. – April 9, 2009 – Cisco today announced its intent to acquire
privately held Tidal Software, Inc. Based in Palo Alto, Calif., and Houston, Tidal
Software is the creator of intelligent application management and automation
solutions that will advance Cisco’s data center strategy by enhancing product
and service delivery offerings.

“Cisco believes the network has become the logical platform to manage and
maintain mission-critical applications,” said Gary Moore, senior vice president of
Advanced Services at Cisco. “With the acquisition of Tidal Software, Cisco will
accelerate its ability to help customers optimize the performance of their
business applications and automate operational best practices in real time, which
will lead to significantly reduced operational costs.”

Tidal Software’s intelligent solutions will bolster Cisco’s data center strategy by
providing timely, accurate and cost-efficient management and automation of
application performance across entire business operations, from the server
through the network to the desktop. The acquisition will also create significant
opportunities for Cisco and its partners through the delivery of partner-led
services, leveraging Cisco’s application management capabilities.

Cisco is pioneering the development of next-generation data centers that unleash
the full power of virtualization. It recently unveiled its vision of Unified
Computing, an evolutionary data center architecture which unites compute,
network, storage access, and virtualization resources in a single cohesive
system.

The Tidal Software acquisition exemplifies Cisco’s “build, buy and partner”
innovation strategy to move quickly into new markets and capture key market
transitions. Under the terms of the agreement, Cisco will pay approximately
$105 million in cash and retention-based incentives.

Upon the close of the acquisition, the Tidal Software team will become part of the
Cisco Advanced Services organization. The acquisition is subject to various
standard closing conditions and is expected to close in the fourth quarter of
Cisco's fiscal year 2009. The acquisition will be accounted for in accordance with
generally accepted accounting principles.

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