At a tipping point for SaaS adoption in enterprise

Cisco recently conducted a focus group with executive level IT decision makers in several major metropolitan cities to better understand enterprise perception of Software as a Service (SaaS).  Having been in the SaaS business over 12+  years with the Cisco WebEx …Read more.

Posted by Alex Hadden Boyd on September 24, 2009 at 10:00AM

McKinsey: “The Networked Company” is Emerging

Cisco has been espousing the true business benefits of Web 2.0 for awhile and a recent survey by McKinsey & Company confirms that, indeed, these tools have a place in business. For three years the management consulting firm has tracked …Read more.

Posted by John Earnhardt on September 21, 2009 at 05:00AM

Collaboration for One, Collaboration for All

“Tous pour un, un pour tous. ” (All for one, one for all.)   -  Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers The fifth and final key finding from the study, Collaboration: Know Your Enthusiasts and Laggards (pdf), is the most unexpected: …Read more.

Posted by Alan Cohen on August 31, 2009 at 11:28AM

Shaving Cream in Your Enterprise Network

At Cisco, we firmly believe that the network enables collaboration—the type of collaboration that is required in today’s business environment where you need to work with people around the world.  It’s the network that enables the people to connect, communicate …Read more.

Posted by Alex Hadden Boyd on May 28, 2009 at 04:43PM

Cisco’s Collaboration Imperative: The Next Market Adjacency

In a recent Q&A our Chairman and CEO John Chambers reflected on Cisco’s future growth, sharing a “Back to the Future” moment with the financial and industry analyst community: “We believe that we are very well positioned in the industry …Read more.

Posted by Alan Cohen on May 26, 2009 at 10:33AM

Bringing the Cloud Down to Earth

Earlier this week Cisco announced a series of new security solutions designed specifically to secure web-based collaboration and a new application delivery cloud that combines the reach, scale, costs and control benefits of both on-demand and on-premises solutions. The new …Read more.

Posted by Colin Smith on April 24, 2009 at 10:32AM

Cisco & Accenture Collaborate to Aid CIOs With Their Balancing Act

Post by Nick Earle, senior vice president of Cisco Services, European Markets A few weeks ago, I sat down with five CIOs of leading German companies. All from different industries with drastically different business challenges, but all intent on one …Read more.

Posted by Cisco PR on February 24, 2009 at 02:01AM

What does Mobility mean to you?

Definition from Wikipedia: ”Mobile computing, a generic term describing one’s ability to use technology untethered, but often used to refer to access to information or applications from occasionally-connected, portable, networked computing devices.” Mobility can also be described as providing a …Read more.

Posted by Alexander Revzin on February 23, 2009 at 10:10AM

Jan.13 Cisco Mobility TV: Making 802.11n Wireless Mainstream

Tune in January 13 to Cisco Mobility TV to hear how Cisco is taking 802.11n wireless mainstream. Representatives from Cisco and NEC Unified Solutions will discuss new approaches for simplifying the transition to 802.11n wireless networks that deliver high-performance, collaborative …Read more.

Posted by Ed Tan on January 08, 2009 at 05:16PM

eWEEK Podcast: Saving Money with Wireless Networks

Happy new year! What, if any, IT resolutions did you make for 2009? If one resolution is to reduce costs or do more with the wireless network that you have, then listen to eWEEK’s Mike Vizard in a recent interview …Read more.

Posted by Ed Tan on January 05, 2009 at 11:47AM

Cisco takes lead in enterprise telephony market according to Infonetics Research

Customers are voting with their wallets. In the recent release of Quarterly Worldwide Market Share and Forecasts: 3Q08 from Infonetics Research, Cisco took the lead for the first time in the overall PBX-KTS equipment market after growing its revenue 19% …Read more.

Posted by Steve Slattery on December 18, 2008 at 01:58PM

Video Overview of the Data Center Assurance Program Tool

I was just trying out the updated Data Center Assurance Program tool.  It includes SP and Enterprise architectures and we currently are testing the Nexus 7000 and Nexus 5000 through this program.  To help things along I made a quick …Read more.

Posted by Douglas Gourlay on October 12, 2008 at 05:48PM

Economic Downturn Driving Cloud Computing Evolution

“Desperate times call for desperate measures”. —Not sure who said this originally, but some attribute it to Guy Fawkes in 1605.  There was an article I was just reading on Data Center Knowledge that got me thinking a bit.  In …Read more.

Posted by Douglas Gourlay on October 11, 2008 at 01:08PM

Virtual Worlds 2008 Conference Recap

What a jam packed week it was in LA this week at the Virtual Worlds conference. I am beyond sorry to have missed it but folks did a great job of blogging and tweeting about the activities so it felt …Read more.

Posted by Dannette Veale on September 04, 2008 at 06:00PM

Cisco Live! 2008 - Collaboration and IT

Doug Dennerline, SVP and GM, Collaboration Software Group, on pervasive trends in the enterprise, and how these impact IT: George Kurian, VP and GM, Data Center Technology, talks about trends in virtualization and what Cisco’s vision is for this technology. …Read more.

Posted by Ken Lotich on June 25, 2008 at 12:34PM