In general, the company's sales in the completed financial quarter increased compared to the same period of the previous year by 2% and amounted to 11.9 billion dollars net profit, "clean money" amounted to USD 3.1 billion. The volume of sales of switches - . . One of the major Cisco product - fell by 4%, while sales of security solutions increased by 11%.

"Shadow" use of IT in recent years is becoming a large scale. CIOs have long been aware of the fact that the whole units use public cloud services to bypass the IT department, but only recently they began to understand the full extent of the phenomenon and see the pitfalls on the way of their business.