Partner

The new Business Resiliency Program is designed to help partners and customers make the investments that can keep them productive and in business, and ultimately emerge even stronger.

Why do people believe IoT will transform the world? It's all about connectedness. Connecting things is just the first step of the journey, but the ultimate goal is about information, and information comes from the data. Information can provide insights to transform, enhance and modify enterprises, which is the real value of IoT.  

The new sales motions are called Scale Plays, and the first in this series is our Security Scale Play, designed to help small businesses strengthen their cyber security simply and dramatically.

The growing popularity of container technology for enterprise software development is no secret. SAP realized this early on and, in the fall of 2017, released SAP Data Hub, a microservices-based platform that enables enterprises to orchestrate, aggregate, visualize, and generate data insights from across an entire business data landscape, such as Hadoop, Amazon S3, SAP HANA, and SAP Business Suite.

The need for Wi-Fi 6 comes down to its superior handling of traffic from high-density situations with customers, employees, guests, and devices. Undoubtedly your customers will be asking about Wi-Fi 6, and as their technology advisor, you want to be in a position to address their needs.

Our customers are dealing with a variety of issues every day that make  security a real drain. Sadly, they are more vulnerable than ever with the increasing number of people working remotely. Read on to learn more about our security platform Cisco SecureX, and some of the new security offers we have available to help our partners and customers address the increase in remote workers. 

Digital transformation is front and center and organizations should use this time to accelerate their transition. Cisco, as a company, and my team in the Global Partner Transformation (GPT) organization are here to help you, our valued partners.

With more exciting prizes and recognition opportunities at Partner Summit and other Cisco events, I’m really looking forward to seeing how all of you in our partner community will continue to address to the changing needs of business with a mindset of innovation.

I hope you’re ready for some good news. CRN published their annual Partner Program guide this week. Thanks to you, this is the ninth straight year we have won one of their prestigious Five Star awards. I’m proud to say, for the first time ever, we won three awards.