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Over the weekend, you might have picked up some buzz about a new Cisco iPhone application that was launched last Friday. The Cisco® SIO To Go is an app. that Internetnews.com said could have just ruined the lunch hour of security officers everywhere.
We say “not true!” Rather than prevent security officers from ‘switching off’, we prefer to think Cisco has made it a whole lot EASIER for them to grab lunch without worrying they’ll be missing a threat to the network for which they are responsible. Check out the video here to get a sense of the poor embattled souls we’re trying to help!
Watch Murali Sitaram, Vice President and General Manager for Cisco’s Enterprise Collaboration Platform (ECP), as he talks about Cisco’s recent announcement of ECP. The Cisco Enterprise Collaboration Platform is an enterprise-class, highly secure, policy driven social software application that allows users to create team spaces and communities on the fly. It is people-centric, facilitating real-time voice, instant messaging, and video communications to connect people, communities, and information to make faster business decisions.
Last week at the Digital Signage show in New York, Cisco proudly accepted its first DIGI Award for our work deploying Cisco StadiumVision at the new Dallas Cowboys Stadium. Awarded by Digital Signage Magazine and The Digital Signage Group, the awards “recognize resellers, integrators and service providers who have gone the extra mile to ensure success for their clients, thereby furthering the digital signage industry as a whole.”
Winning in the “Best Deployment: Entertainment” category, this award reinforces how Cisco StadiumVision is revolutionizing the fan experience. We’ve worked with The Cowboys to build the most versatile and technologically advanced entertainment venue in all of North American football, and we’re very excited to have our work recognized by our colleagues in the digital signage industry.
Cisco and UnitedHealth Group this week showcased the latest in telemedicine—a ‘Connected Care’ mobile clinic that links patients to healthcare services they might not otherwise have access to because of time, distance or other constraints.
Connected Care, a partnership between Cisco and UnitedHealth Group, is the first national telemedicine network. The goal is to deliver high-quality healthcare services in a variety of settings, including rural, retail and workplace environments, where in-person physician visits might not be possible or practical.
While Cisco has a healthy respect for all of our competitors, acquisitions in our industry only validate the fact that networking is becoming the platform for all forms of communications and IT. As the leader in the networking market, Cisco is very confident in our business strategy, commitment to product innovation and ability to provide strategic business value to our customers in a highly competitive marketplace.
At today’s Cisco Collaboration Partner Summit in San Francisco, CA, we heard how the use of TelePresence can make a significant difference to success levels in stroke treatment. In an environment where time is a critical factor in diagnosing and treating stroke, getting the right clinical care to the patient quickly is paramount.
Andrew Clarke of the Doncaster and Bassetlaw Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust talked to the Platform after his presentation about how Cisco TelePresence is helping to make a difference in this ‘golden hour’ after a patient presents at the hospital, and about how remote diagnosis is having an impact on both patients and hospital staff.
The Center for Advanced Human Resource Studies at Cornell recently put together a nice piece on Brian Schipper, Senior Vice President of HR.
The article not only profiles Schipper’s career, but also touches upon how his team keeps Cisco employees engaged and performing at a high level. Technology definitely plays a role, but an additional, and essential component is having an inclusive and diverse workforce. Through this, companies are able to anticipate market transitions, be responsive to customer needs, and build a solid foundation for the future.
Since we announced our Unified Computing System in March (B-Series shown here), our data center strategy has hardly been out of the headlines, but this week saw Cisco UCS reach another important milestone.
As TechTarget and others reported, UCS is starting to get into the hands of a wider group of Cisco partners via distributors such as Comstor and Tech Data.
And just as partners prepare to take delivery of those systems, the media is getting its first look under the hood too.
Today, InfoWorld reviewer Paul Venezia published his take on the system. We certainly appreciate Paul’s headline (”How Cisco UCS reinvents the Data Center”) but what he goes on to say is even more interesting.
South African rock band The Parlotones have been making use of Cisco technology to get to new followers. While fans waited for their first live concert in Russia in early November, the South African rock band paid a virtual visit to Moscow via Cisco TelePresence.
From London, they joined a press conference hosted by Cisco Russia and discussed their upcoming tour with local music journalists. Then the scene shifted to the halls of the Moscow World Trade Center, where – still using Cisco TelePresence technology - The Parlotones gave a transcontinental virtual concert for visitors of the annual Cisco Expo ICT forum.
Here’s a short video of The Parlotones’ virtual visit to Moscow:
Cisco has a strong culture of giving back – deeply rooted in our DNA spanning back to the early days when we were headquartered in East Palo Alto and then-CEO John Morgridge encouraged employees to hop the fence over to the elementary school next door and help mentor, tutor and help contribute to the upkeep of the buildings.
What I appreciate most—and what I have learned the most—in contributing to Cisco’s efforts over the years has been in the concept of engagement. Financial contributions are important – they are the underpinning of most of our community resources in terms of their ability to ‘open up shop’ every day. That said, ongoing, roll-up-your-sleeves engagement makes such a tremendous difference – it allows you to truly understand the need, genuinely ‘touch’ the people and organizations you are partnering with to support, and most importantly it creates relationships and commitments that last longer and run deeper.
1) How does Virtual Computing Environment Coalition affect Cisco’s UCS offering? How does Vblock differ from UCS? 2) How will the Coalition help to deliver benefits to smaller companies? 3) What applications will be the best targets to move from private to the public cloud? 4) How will the vBlock technology integrate with existing data centers such as backup, SAN infrastructures, etc.? How will vBlock management resources interact with existing in-house management tools? 5) How will the Coalition offer a truly unified support service for Cisco/EMC/VMware infrastructure without putting another layer between the customer and the three vendors? How will the Coalition fit into the partner ecosystem?
What would an announcement from Cisco be without VIDEO? To tell you a bit more about our Virtual Computing Environment (VCE) coalition that we announced today with EMC and VMware, we went to Mark Fulghum, Cisco Vice President of Data Center Solutions and asked him to talk about how VCE addresses the challenges of pervasive virtualization and private cloud computing. We also asked key thought leaders Savvis CTO Bryan Doerr and Purdue University CIO Gerry McCartney to discuss VCE.
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