back to article Cisco borgs Synata, services shuttered

If you were a Synata user, you are no more: the company's been Borged by the Borg, and all accounts closed down. The company was set up to develop and commercialise its enterprise search technology, which it says offered a single search point across e-mail (Gmail and Exchange), cloud storage (Dropbox, Google Drive and Box), …

  1. PeteA
    Headmaster

    Indices

    Not indexes. Thank you.

  2. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Response to competition from Slack?

    Sort of makes some sense for Cisco. Slack's major contribution to instant messaging is archiving and search. So this acquisition would aim to add those features to Spark to keep the product competitive.

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