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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Posted by Cisco PR at 06:41PM PST
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.
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Posted by Cisco PR at 02:05PM PST
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.
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Posted by Cisco PR at 12:08AM PST
Jayshree Ullal shares key customer insights from Interop 2008.
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Posted by Cisco PR at 06:21PM PST
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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Posted by Cisco PR at 05:04PM PST
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!
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Posted by Cisco PR at 03:29PM PST
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.
Posted by John Earnhardt at 02:06AM PST
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.
Posted by John Earnhardt at 12:43PM PST
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?
Posted by John Earnhardt at 05:03PM PST
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?
Posted by John Earnhardt at 08:00AM PST
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.
Posted by John Earnhardt at 12:16PM PST
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.
Posted by John Earnhardt at 05:03PM PST
"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?
Posted by Cisco PR at 01:01PM PST
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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Posted by Cisco PR at 12:36AM PST
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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Posted by Cisco PR at 12:18AM PST
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