What Cisco has been going through in the past few months is no secret. Even killing Flip made them look like the bad guys. They have also lost several executives to their fiercest competitors while in the process of reorganization. But this is not tantamount to saying that they have raised the white flag. Gradually, Cisco is regaining the confidence of stock buyers with their gold standard and one of the most comprehensive enterprise solutions. There seems to be a renewed stock vibe over the last few days.

What could be the turning point for Cisco right now is that their employees are still in high hopes of bouncing back. In an article read on Networkworld.com, a Cisco Engineer for more than a decade is raving about the changes that the company is taking now. More realistic, more daring. In fact, Michael Rau’s series of articles read in SiliconAngle.com centers on Cisco refusing to fall under the “good-enough” network category. Some other topics in this interesting meme by Michael Rau, Vice President, CTO, for the Borderless Network Architecture at Cisco, address myths on security, basic warranty and application and end-point ignorance.

While some experts think that the negatives are overpowering the affirmatives with theirstock value plunging drastically, Cisco with the management of John Chambers, is looking to turn things around. The only question now is will they be able to regain market leadership when opponents are already up and about.

But Cisco’s not the only one in recovery mode.  Dell, which has been experiencing a rather rough road to recovery, has initiated some developments that paved the way for some upswings recently. During the inaugural Dell Storage Forum, the enterprise announced its plan of global expansion and creating world-class storage solutions. As a part of the revitalization campaign, Dell recently teamed up with Netuitive for big virtualization move. Dell also acquired RNA to beef up their storage and virtualization portfolio.