How do you have an effective meeting of 100 people who are distributed around the globe? And have some seasonal fun at the same time?
The answer is Cisco TelePresence! Last week our global digital team — the folks who manage Cisco.com, mobile web and online social media — met for an end of year all hands. We had 14 TelePresence rooms situated globally. And in addition to some really productive planning, brainstorming and communication, the teams had a moment or two of fun, as evidenced by this “Reindeer Brigade” from one of our San Jose, California teams:
Management capabilities are key to the delivery of private, public, and hybrid cloud services, providing scalability, reliability, security, and economic feasibility. Learn about recently announced new management capabilities in Cisco Hosted Collaboration Solution (HCS) from Eric Schoch, leader of the Cisco HCS product teams. Eric shares how management enhancements are targeted at providing greater visibility and faster resolution of issues, resulting in better service level agreements and more scalable, economical operation benefiting both customers and partners. Eric also touches on what the future will bring in the area of management.
Before and after our Cisco Hosted Collaboration (HCS) announcement, we conducted a series of interviews with members of Read More »
When does a new business relationship need to move from being a virtual (online) experience to a physical (in-person) experience? That question was a topic of discussion with a couple of friends, over a beer after a recent TechHub event. Moreover, I have been pondering this issue since I participated in the pilot of an International Investment Forum.
How much of our business conversations need to be face-to-face? With all the electronic communication options that are at our disposal today, does it really matter?
I was at Gartner Summit in Las Vegas last week after missing the prior year. One thing that struck me this year was the increased dialogue around changes IT organizations need to make in their people and processes in order to prepare for both the convergence of IT infrastructure and the move to cloud. Now I know that analysts have talked about the area of IT operations management for some time but what was different was that customers were talking about it too.
At Cisco Services, we’ve had an increasing number of customers asking us to help them better align their people and process to take full advantage of Cisco’s innovative data center technologies. This growing interest in change was on full display at Gartner Summit, as both analysts and customers were discussing what change would mean to them.
So what are some of the things you should consider to get your IT organization best prepared for change? First, you need a leader committed to changing the way your IT runs. The CIO at Seattle Children’s Hospital, Drex DeFord, says he started by re-setting his organizational purpose, identifying patients as their customers, not employees. He then focused his strategy on removing complexity from his IT organization, not just on the technology side but in his people and processes as well, to allow IT better flexibility to understand and deliver against their customers’ expectations.
Eric Schoch, Director of Product Management for the Cisco Hosted Collaboration Solution product teams, explains the new private cloud solution that empowers large enterprises to build their own collaboration cloud using Cisco’s validated and tested solution and full management capabilities.
Before and after our Cisco Hosted Collaboration (HCS) announcements on December 6, we are providing a series
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