David Durham

Every Friday, we’ll highlight the most important Cisco partner news and stories of the week, as well as point you to important, Cisco-related partner content you may have missed along the way.

This is the fifth post in a series from Dimension Data and Cisco Channels looking at user adoption and integration of unified communications and collaboration (UC&C) solutions. Findings stem from Dimension Data’s 2013 Global UC&C Survey, developed with ICT researcher Ovum and featuring responses from more than 2,700 participants in 18 countries across 20 vertical industries.

Every Friday, we’ll highlight the most important Cisco partner news and stories of the week, as well as point you to important, Cisco-related partner content you may have missed along the way.

The big news for Cisco this week was the launch of the Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI). This new approach to data center infrastructure brings simplicity, security and agility for applications. The plan, as presented by Chairman and CEO John Chambers, will reduce the time it take to provision, change or remove applications from months to minutes.

Every Friday, we’ll highlight the most important Cisco partner news and stories of the week, as well as point you to important, Cisco-related partner content you may have missed along the way.

Cisco VP Sherri Liebo's latest post on revenue marketing, part 4 of our UC&C series, Collaboration Partner Launch Highlights, and more in this week's Cisco Partner Weekly Rewind

In a previous blog post based on this research, we heard about evidence that the implementation of some technologies is no longer the end goal in UC&C but have become a ‘ticket to the game’. In this most recent blog, Nagi Kasinadhuni, general manager converged communications and customer interaction solutions, has expanded on those ideas with his opinion on where this will lead clients in the future.

Every Friday, we’ll highlight the most important Cisco partner news and stories of the week, as well as point you to important, Cisco-related partner content you may have missed along the way. Here’s what you might have missed this week:

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