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April 30, 2008
Cisco & Ovum Analyst Discuss Data Center Trends at Interop
Doug Gourlay, senior director, Data Center Solutions at Cisco and Mark Seery, vice president of Switching & Routing at Ovum RHK, discuss data center trends at Interop 2008. These include consolidation, Fiber Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), SFP+, Twinax cabling, and new products.
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Interop 2008 Winner Best of Interop Networking
Cisco Nexus 7000 Series is the recipient of Interop 2008 Product of the Year. It is the first Data Center class switch in the Nexus portfolio offering transport flexibility, operational continuity and infrastructure scalability.
Post by Tugba Goksel
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April 29, 2008
Interop: The impact of IP Video on Campus Network
Nick Lippis, Publisher of The Lippis Report, discuses the benefits of virtualization in the data center and provides an overview of IP Video deployment including bandwidth scalability and security requirements on the campus network. For more info, please check out www.lippis.com.
Post by Tugba Goksel
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In the Know at Interop 2008
Jayshree Ullal shares key customer insights from Interop 2008.
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Interop 2008: The Essence of Collaborative Technologies
At Interop 2008, Johna Till Johnson, senior founding partner of Nemertes Research talks about top challenges that enterprises face in deploying collaborative technologies and provides solutions and best practices. Learn the benefits that collaborative technologies bring.
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Catch the Buzz of Interop '08
Interop Las Vegas 2008 kicks off this week. We wanted to know what is top of mind for leading analysts. Marie Hattar, marketing VP at Cisco, talks with Johna Till Johnson, senior founding partner of Nemertes Research, about the latest trends and innovations that will be unveiled this week. Watch the video!
Post by Christine Pratt
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April 25, 2008
FT.com "View from the Top" with John Chambers
Earlier this week, on our San Jose campus, we had the pleasure of hosting Chrystia Freeland, US Managing Editor of the Financial Times as well as technology reporter Kevin Allison. Chrystia participated in a TelePresence session and then sat down with our CEO, John Chambers, as a part of her video interview series, "View from the Top." If you haven't seen these interviews before, I encourage you to RSS them and make them a regular part of your weekly news. Past interviewees include John Thain of Merrill Lynch, George Soros, and Bob Greifeld of NASDAQ.
An edited transcript of the interview with John Chambers is in the print edition of the FT today here, or you can view (most of) the entire conversation on FT.com:
Part One talking about the global economy, collaboration and social networking and Facebook is here.
Part Two talking about Cisco CEO succession plans, US competitiveness and Senator John McCain is here.
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April 24, 2008
Drew Clark and BroadbandCensus.com
I just got off the phone with Drew Clark, Executive Director of BroadbandCensus.com . His group has the very interesting goal of helping consumers learn more about broadband service and speeds offered in their geographic area. Drew is a long-time technology policy reporter in DC who is also currently pursuing his law degree because he has always been interested in law and "it will help me do my job better." Yep, he's one of those overachievers.
Broadbandcensus.com is asking for people to go to their site and enter their broadband information for their respective area to get a better national footprint of broadband offererings.
The site states:
"America has a need for better information about broadband. The country needs to know where high-speed Internet service is available and where it isn't. And that is just the first step. Next, consumers need to know the extent of broadband competition in their local area. They need to know the names of the carriers that offer broadband, the speeds they offer, and the prices they charge. BroadbandCensus.com intends to fill this gap. We invite you to help us by taking the Broadband Census."
I just entered my information and invite you to do the same.
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April 23, 2008
Cisco "Bike to Work" Day 2008
As part of the Earth day celebration, today is bike to work day at Cisco. Blair Christie, SVP, Corporate Communications, and Laura Ipsen, SVP, of Global Policy and Government Affairs and co-chair of the Eco-Board at Cisco, were among the approximately 700 Cisco San Jose employees who biked to work today. Laura and Blair both live in Los Gatos and it was about a 20-mile bike commute to our headquarters in San Jose and took them about an hour and fifteen minutes.
Blair (on the left, and in the blue) and Laura (in the Tour de France yellow) talk about dodging cars, doing an eco-friendly 1:1 meeting and reading e-mail on the bike (children: do not attempt this at home, these are trained professionals!)
They answered the following questions:
How was the commute on the bike?
How often do you plan on biking to work in the future?
How long was your commute on the bike versus in the car?
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April 22, 2008
Laura Ipsen, Eco-Board Co-Chair, Talks Earth Day and Green
In this video, on a sunny California day, Laura Ipsen, Cisco's SVP of Global Policy and Government Affairs and co-chair of our Eco-Board, talks a bit about what we're doing for Earth Day as well as Cisco's overall philosophy and approach to green.
She answers the following questions:
- What is Cisco doing for Earth Day?
- What else is Cisco doing green?
- How do you personally live green in your family?
- What are you doing for "Bike to Work" day tomorrow?
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April 21, 2008
InformationWeek Video: Alan Cohen on Unified Communications
Fritz Nelson of InformationWeek recently posted an interview with our own Alan Cohen, VP of Enterprise & Mid-Market Solutions. They chatted about WebEx, unified communications, presence and more. See the video below or Fritz' entire post here.
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April 18, 2008
How to Become a Famous Blogger
There are a lot of "how-to" books, manuals, tapes, speakers, etc. A lot of them have a lot of pages or take a while to listen to or watch. Some require you to spend a weekend listening to speakers...heck, you might even mix in a trust-fall or beat a drum or two along the way. This "how to" cartoon from "We blog cartoons", however, is straight to the point. And, a good way to start your weekend...
This, of course, made me remember this Wall Street Journal graphic on high-ranking blogging executives from two years ago.
Have a great weekend.
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April 17, 2008
Video’s Campus Communications Fabric: Best Supporting Actor?
“If you build a fast engine… [y]ou first of all need a script that’s written in the express lane, and if it’s not, there’s nothing you can do in the editing room to make it move faster. You need room for character, you need room for relationships, for personal conflict, you need room for comedy, but that all has to happen on a moving sidewalk.”-Steven Spielberg on Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Wherever you turn in our industry these days, people are talking about the speed of business and globalization, about mash-ups and ecosystems. And whenever people talk about business communications to support this evolution, they are discussing the role and importance of video. As we showed at the VoiceCon EcoPanel with Al Gore, John Chambers and Sue Bostrom in three different cities, the compelling experience high quality video communications offers not only changes how people interact, it changes business processes themselves, allowing for integration across companies, across cultures, and across continents real time or in the moment. If a picture is worth a thousand words, what is the Net Present Value (NPV) of video?
Over the past year, Cisco’s own (as well as our customers’) use of video technologies – from the personal VT Advantage on people’s desktops to the video capabilities of Webex to the commanding experience of Telepresence – has saved ten of millions of dollars in travel costs, while making communications even more effective. It has brought intimacy to communications, making the latter personal again. And mostly, Video, the application, received the public attention, effectively sweeping the product Oscars and much of the debate/discussion in the blogs and tabloids of our industry.
Thinking about video, a movie metaphor comes to mind. If Telepresence is the leading star in our Video studio, it only seems fair for me to identify the leading supporting actor in this blockbuster machine, the network itself. In fact, today I would like to nominate the Campus Communications Fabric for the award, “key enabler of rich video communications.” While movie fans tend to love the leading actresses and actors, some of us think the supporting cast can steal the show.
Traditionally, enterprise saw video communications, particularly video conferencing, as a point-to-point application requiring “nailed-up” connections. While useful, this form of video communication was both difficult to manage and use and provided limited capabilities in terms of experience and utilization. To wit, most video conferencing systems are used approximately 1% of the time (versus Telepresence systems, which are in use on our campuses around the world more than 50% of the time).
As Telepresence, video-rich web conferencing, personal video communications and video-on-demand (VODs) or video blogs (VLOGS), as well as video surveillance systems become more ubiquitous, the campus network needs to evolve to support dynamic, anytime usage. So let me take you behind the scenes to quickly see what the network has to do to support video.
Increased reliance on campus network to support video requires three types of capabilities:
• Network Performance: The network needs to be optimized for service delivery, to include monitoring and management of traffic;
• Confidentiality: As business video takes off, security becomes a more significant driver, including path isolation for confidential traffic, prevention of unauthorized access and application-aware threat protection;
• Scale: The network needs to support increasing loads on its bandwidth, including in-service upgrades and engines vs. rip and replace. Moreover, as 802.11n technologies take hold on campus, they too must be optimized for video distribution.
As video usage becomes as commonplace as telephony as a Unified Communications application to every individual at the office, the fabric and performance of the network must respond to the video version of Metcalf’s law.
So let’s give some well-deserved accolades to the intelligent, service-rich network for video possible. Much like the video application and campus network, it takes both Steven Spielberg’s directing and George Lucas’ production to make a blockbuster.
Post by Alan S. Cohen, Vice President, Enterprise & Mid-Market Solutions
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April 16, 2008
A Japanese Perspective on the Cisco Worldwide Partner Summit
Mandy Knotts, of Cisco PR, speaks with Hidetaka Tak Kai, President and General Manager of Datacraft Japan. Hidetaka Tak Kai talks about the unified communications opportunity in Japan and the widely talked about IT talent issue.
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Make Something, Even a Mistake: Advice from Comedian John Cleese
Actor, author and comedian John Cleese shares his thoughts on risk taking, management style and technology use at the recent annual Partner Summit in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Few comedians have left a lasting impression quite like British actor John Cleese. From Monty Python to Fawlty Towers to James Bond films and the Pink Panther, too, Cleese has acted, written and produced his way into entertainment history. His career spans four decades and keeps going still. Along the way, he's developed a keen interest in business and management style. Recently he paid a visit to Cisco partners where he spoke in Honolulu, Hawaii, at the 2008 annual Partner Summit. There, he told his audience to be bold and make mistakes. In a wide ranging talk, he discussed philosophy, business acumen and leadership style. In this interview with Cisco's Mandy Knotts, Cleese shares his insights on these topics and more.
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April 15, 2008
Cisco Partners Sound Off: 5 from Emerging Markets
Five partners from Cisco's Emerging Markets Theater discuss a talent shortage, vertical market moves, top opportunities and other topics in this Q&A video.
A talent shortage. Vertical markets. Business differentiation. Value-added selling. These are some of the topics on Cisco business partners' minds these days. In this Q&A video, Cisco's editor@large T.C. Doyle interviews five partners from Cisco's Emerging Markets Theater to better understand their top issues. For insights on what's top of mind for business partners today, be sure to see this video.
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April 14, 2008
CIO Perspectives: Esat Sezer, Coca Cola Enterprises
Cisco Partner Summit 2008: Insights from the recipient of Cisco's 4 millionth Integrated Services Router (ISR)
Four million and counting. That's how many Integrated Services Routers (ISR) Cisco has shipped. The customer who received number 4,000,000? Coca Cola Enterprises, a $20 billion bottling company that operates in eight countries and boasts 30,000 knowledge workers working in and around 440 different locations. In this interview with Cisco editor@large T.C. Doyle, CIO Esat Sezer discusses the challenges his company faces and the network priorities he established. One of his key objectives: going green. No doubt his new, custom red-colored Cisco ISR will fit right into his network upgrade plans.
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April 12, 2008
Keith Goodwin's Parting Words for Channel Partners
Mandy Knotts of Cisco PR speaks with Keith Goodwin, Senior Vice President of Worldwide Channels at the close of Cisco Worldwide Partner Summit. Keith shares the partner feedback regarding Cisco's focus on collaboration and if he had any surprises during partner meetings.
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April 11, 2008
Thierry Drilhon, VP Worldwide Channels, European Markets
Mandy Knotts of Cisco PR speaks with Thierry Drilhon at the Cisco Worldwide Partner Summit. Thierry speaks about top of mind issues for Cisco European channel partners and how his team is addressing channel partner needs through new programs and initiatives.
Post by Mandy Knotts
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Cisco Worldwide Partner Summit: Interview with Inbar Lasser-Raab
Mandy Knotts of Cisco PR speaks with Inbar Lasser-Raab, Senior Director, Network Systems at the Cisco Worldwide Partner Summit. Inbar provides a glimpse into Thursday morning's press event with Coca-Cola Enterprises and how Cisco Integrated Service Routers are changing how we view routing as a technology.
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Mobility Vlog Series
I invite you to change blog channels for a little bit and turn your attention to our sister Cisco blog on mobility. In the first video in this series, you'll hear from Ben Gibson, Senior Director of Mobility Solutions, talking about “Mobility and the Converging Networks.” Your'll learn what Cisco is seeing as IT’s challenge for providing mobility to employees and mobile users as they are connecting to more disparate networks (both wired and wireless). Gibson provides insight on what and how IT should consider when planning, managing and growing a mobility system.
Watch this video and if you like what you see, I invite you to RSS your way over to the Mobility blog or subscribe via e-mail alert.
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Cisco Perspectives: One CEO's Insights
Cisco Partner Summit: Insights from John Chambers, Chairman and CEO, Cisco
Not all CEOs make an appearance at their company's annual gathering of business partners. But Cisco CEO John Chambers routinely does. Why? Well, with more than 80 percent of his company's business flowing through partners annually, Chambers is not one to take business relationships lightly. In this video, he shares his observations on what partners told him was foremost on their minds at this year's annual partner gathering in Honolulu. In addition, he offers some advice for fellow CEOs trying to navigate a course during tough economic times.
Post by T.C. Doyle
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April 10, 2008
Cisco Worldwide Partner Summit: The Cisco/Channel Partner Relationship
Ken Westwood, COO of Dimension Data Australia Shares His Perspective on Their Relationship with Cisco
Mandy Knotts of Cisco PR speaks with Ken Westwood, COO of Dimension Data Australia at the Cisco Worldwide Partner Summit. As a key Cisco channel partner, Ken speaks about why he thinks the Cisco/Dimension Data relationship is successful, the challenge around finding IT talent and the Data Center opportunity.
Post by Mandy Knotts
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Cisco Worldwide Partner Summit: The SMB Opportunity
Rick Moran, VP of SMB Solutions Marketing Shares Provides an SMB Update
Mandy Knotts of Cisco PR speaks with Rick Moran, VP of SMB Solutions Marketing at the Cisco Worldwide Partner Summit. Rick provides an update on Cisco's SMB efforts since last year's Partner Summit and talks about what's exciting about the SMB opportunity for Cisco and its channel partners.
Post by Mandy Knotts
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Cisco: Secure @ RSA Conference
This week Cisco is making announcements on many fronts in many places. One of them is in the security arena. With the city of San Francisco teeming with 17,000+ security professionals, solution providers, good guys, bad guys, and "gray" guys for the annual RSA security conference, much of the buzz has centered on the data protection theme. And rightfully so.
Years ago the security game was about keeping the "bad stuff" out -- the viruses and worms that were intentionally designed to bring down networks, brag about it, and trump the guy who made a previous attack in a similar vein the week before. Today, the game has evolved in a more sinister way. The bad stuff and the bad guys are after money. They're after identity. They're after data. Instead of bringing down a network, they're trying to use it as a vehicle for infiltrating your business, your computer, your phone, your home, your family life, your well-being, and subsequently, your peace of mind. Simply put, this stealth-for-wealth approach has been the catalyst for ushering in an overt-to-covert transition in the thread-laden underworld. It's no longer about keeping the bad stuff out. Now it's about keeping the bad stuff out AND keeping the good stuff in. Your data, in other words.
For years, Cisco has worked sincerely to not just provide products, but to provide guidance and leadership in the marketplace. To help customers, consumers, or competitors make sense of the changing threat landscape and impact on business, work, and play. Cisco has always trumpeted the need for network security. The Self-Defending Network. Firewalls, VPNs, intrusion prevention, etc. This tune will not change. But what is changing for Cisco is how it evolves its approach to providing leadership, guidance, and technology offerings.
At RSA this week, the company made two announcements that embody this evolution. At a corporate level, we announced jointly with EMC and its RSA security division that the companies will develop and deliver joint data protection solutions going forward. These solutions will help provide better ammo for companies and people fighting threats as well as for shoring up compliance and corporate security policy enforcement. As businesses become more distributed and mobile, so too does the access to data. It leaves corporate campuses, it's in motion, it's accessed in public, it's transmitted between work and home, and so on. Data security is critical, and it is the perfect segue to the second announcement Cisco made this week... Cisco is evolving its Self-Defending Network solution strategy. No longer will it be tied exclusively to the network security. Cisco is going to incorporate protection of the network as well as the endpoints, applications, and content that utilize them, and the management and analysis of it all will be all-encompassing. That's the direction. The EMC-Cisco announcement represents a nice data point that helps bring this vision and direction to life.
So in case you're thinking that the network security space is past-tense or legacy, it couldn't be farther from the truth. The network security game just became more important. Trust me -- the apps and content that leverage the network would heartily agree. The people who have data and identities associated with those apps and content and that are accessed via various endpoints would second that. The network as a platform... Hmmm. In the security world, that's not just a tagline or a slogan. It's the truth.
-- Post by Neil Wu Becker...one of the "good guys" :-)
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April 09, 2008
Cisco Partner Summit: Emerging Markets Perspectives
Insights from Paul Mountford, president of Cisco's Emerging Markets Theater.
Three years ago Cisco reorganized its business to better serve fast growing and increasingly influential developing economic powerhouses such as Russia, Brazil, Saudi Arabia and Poland. The result: Cisco's Emerging Markets Theater, a grouping of more than 130 countries that includes more than 2 billion people and a sizable chunk of the world's GDP. In this segment, Theater president Paul Mountford provides a progress update and insights on his strategies.
Post by Mandy Knotts
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Cisco Partner Summit: Mike Allen, Managing Director, APAC Channels
Mandy Knotts of Cisco PR spoke with Mike Allen, Managing Director of APAC Channels at the Cisco Worldwide Partner Summit. Mike discusses how the channel business has evolved, top of mind channel partner issues and what he hopes our APAC channel partners will take away from this week's event.
Post by Mandy Knotts
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Cisco Channel Partner, Bulletproof Solutions explains "Super Chill"
Mandy Knotts, of Cisco PR , speaks with Bob Buchanan, COO of Bulletproof Solutions and Steve Burns, the President, at the Cisco Worldwide Partner Summit. This Canadian channel partner talks about their business, focusing on small and medium-sized business and how unified communications is helping a customer that harvests salmon save money and be more efficient.
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Partners Are an Extension of the Cisco Sales Force
Mandy Knotts of Cisco PR sat down with Wendy Bahr, VP of US/Canada Channels at the Cisco Worldwide Partner Summit. Wendy shares everything from why channel partner's are critical to Cisco's success and her interest in fire dancing while in Hawaii.
-- Why are channel partners critical to Cisco's success in the US/Canada theater?
-- How many Partner Summit's have you attended?
-- How has the Partner Summit evolved?
-- Have our channel partner's business priorities changed over the last few years? If yes, how?
Post by Mandy Knotts
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April 08, 2008
On Fire for the Nexus 5000
Senior Director of Data Center Marketing Doug Gourlay: On Fire for the Nexus 5000
Mandy Knotts of Cisco PR speaks with Doug Gourlay, Senior Director of Data Center Marketing at the Cisco Worldwide Partner Summit. Doug provides insight into what was revealed at this morning's press conference and the opportunity around Data Center 3.0. Beyond Data Center, Doug also negotiates a deal with Mandy that will involve a future and "hot" blog post in the days to come.
Post by Mandy Knotts
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Honolulu's Transformation: Updating with Cisco
Partner Summit 2008
T.C. Doyle, of Cisco, visits with Honolulu Mayor Mufi Hannemann and talks about the use of technology in his city. He also talks with Honolulu CIO, Gordon Bruce, about their use of Cisco Unified Communications and some challenges that he's seen since becoming CIO.
Post by Mandy Knotts
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The Ground Rules: Cisco Annual Partner Summit
TC Doyle and Mandy Knotts, Cisco's bloggers for the Cisco Annual Partner Summit, outline their plans for the event.
Post by Mandy Knotts
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BD Director Rob Salvagno Discusses Cisco's Nuova Acquisition
Rob Salvagno, Senior Director of Business Development, discusses Cisco's Nuova acquisition announced today. This is a follow-on to our initial investment in August 2006. Nuova is focused on cutting-edge data center technology and its first product, the Nexus 5000, is also being announced today.
In this video, Salvagno discusses the following questions:
- Tell us about the Nuova transaction being announced today.
- How does this fit into Cisco's innovation strategy?
- How much will Cisco be paying for Nuova?
- Tell us about the Nuova team.
- What is the background between Cisco and Nuova?
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April 07, 2008
Partner Summit 2008 Kick Off
Our 12th Cisco Partner Summit is kicking off in Honolulu this week. Throughout the week on this blog, you'll hear from (and see via Video blog posts) Cisco executives and Summit attendees. If you can't be in Hawaii this week, you can attend the Summit virtually.
In this video, Keith Goodwin, SVP for Worldwide Channels, gives an overview of what Partners can expect at this year's summit.
He answers the following questions:
- What's happening in Hawaii? Who is here?
- Why are partners coming to Hawaii?
- What are partners going to be hearing this year?
- If you were to have any downtime during the Summit, what would you most likely do? Snorkel? Surf? Firewalk?
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April 04, 2008
Remembering Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Commentary is not needed here, but, today, as we remember the life of Nobel Laureate and civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. I thought it appropriate to post his "I have a dream" speech from 1963 on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. The speech has been viewed and/or heard by many millions of people and this particular video submission to YouTube has been viewed over 3 million times. Video technology is a powerful medium to remember our past as well as help us look to the future.
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April 03, 2008
Sick...Working from Home
Maybe I should be sleeping. I should definitely not be blogging. But, here I am: Sitting up in bed, a couple of pilows behind me, Kleenex at my side...doing some work, responding to e-mail, approving a comment or two on the blog. Sure, I'm not killing myself on the work front today, but I have been engaged much more than I would have been 10 years ago. Ten years ago, if I were sick, I'd call in and let the boss know that I was under the weather and cancel any appointments via dial-up e-mail and be done with it. Now, with my wireless (yes, Linksys), in-my-bed broadband, I'm able to drift in and out of consciousness and actually get a little work done. Which is good, dare I say, for overall productivity and, taking it one step further, good for the economy. I guess what I'm saying is that because of technology, I am much more productive today while sick, than I would have been 10 years ago while sick. So, when measuring the impact of technology on productivity, we must not discount the sick broadband worker.
However, I'm still sick...thanks to my one-year old still not getting the concept of covering his mouth while coughing all over me. He'll get there one day, I'm sure.
With mobility and unified communications, of course, we can be more productive wherever we are, whenever we are. I would argue that is a good thing, but I would also argue that writing a blog with a medicine head and Kleenex strewn about my bedside is likely not the brightest thing to do, but, hey, I'm sick...I'm not thinking clearly. Maybe a nap will help.
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April 01, 2008
Cisco Partner Summit: Focus on Growth and Talent
In this video, Keith Goodwin, SVP of Worldwide Channels for Cisco, talks about what partners are focused on heading into Partner Summit next week. He says continued growth and attracting, developing and retaining talent are top of mind for partners.
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DNA Confirms Real Father of the Internet
Our partners over at 463 Communications did some fine investigative journalism to get to the bottom of WHO is the real father of the Internet. Tom Galvin, co-founder of 463, states, "After years of controversy and uncertainty, DNA testing has finally proven the real father of the Internet. It’s a gas station attendant in Norman, Oklahoma."
He continues, "The Internet himself...refused comment, but his troubles are well-documented. Recently, the Internet passed potentially crippling viruses to unsuspecting acquaintances, was accused of aiding identity thieves, drained numerous bank accounts and was complicit in the illegal distribution of the latest Britney Spears “album.”
Read the full Onionesque April fool's blog entry here.
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