Summer’s coming to a close and Cisco partners have been doing much more than just hanging by the pool. They’ve been busy working on some very cool projects!

In this episode of Partner Update, we find out why Cisco partner Force 3 has been spending time with competitive eating champion Joey Chestnut and learn about a new blog series from Logicalis called Hype or Ripe.

But there’s a lot more in this action-packed newscast, so watch this week’s Partner Update to get a math lesson from Cisco Channels Chief Edison Peres, find out how architecture-based solutions can maximize ROI for customers and help ensure partner profitability, learn how Westcon Group is removing obstacles to global distribution, get the latest details from Forrester Consulting on ways that customers can benefit from Borderless Networks solutions, out with HP and in with Xerox print solutions, our VMworld update, and much more that you don’t want to miss.

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Tags: borderless, Cisco, comstor, customers, distribution, edison peres, Firefly, force3, forrester, HP, logicalis, partner update, partners, partnerupdate, ROI, Tech2000, vmworld, Westcon, xerox

With architectures being all the buzz, we held an informative Channels Chat live broadcast “How to Thrive with Cisco Architectures” to learn how partners can win big with Cisco’s architectures.

Fellow blogger Alex Krasne hosted and moderated the session which featured a lively, informative discussion among guests Andres Sintes, Global Director of Cisco’s Worldwide Learning Partner Channel; and Cisco Learning Partners George Churchwell, CEO of Tech2000 and Pat Bodin, CEO of Firefly.

Andres, George, and Pat discussed how partners can take advantage of Cisco’s architecture-based solutions. Then our guests shared tips on how partners can maximize the Return on Investment (ROI) of their architectural deployments by leveraging authorized Cisco training from Cisco Learning Partners. Lastly, they rounded out the broadcast by answering audience questions.

Missed the broadcast? Watch the replay below.

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Tags: architectures, broadcast, Channels Chat, Cisco, Firefly, Learning Partner Program, partners, Tech2000, training, ustream