Alexandra Zagury

It’s pretty clear that we’re moving to a world where managed services and as-a-service begin to merge. This calls for an entirely new customer engagement model, one that revolves around partnerships.

Every year in May, CRN releases their highly-anticipated Women of the Channel List. This year’s list is not only the largest yet, but the number of Cisco leaders who were named to CRN’s 2022 Women of the Channel list is the most ever at 38!

For this year’s International Women’s Day theme, #BreakTheBias, I wanted to take that conversation a step further. Sharing our stories about the biases we’ve faced is only the first part. In order to truly #BreakTheBias and pave a clearer path for others, women—and men—must also reach out to other women and make sure all of our voices are heard.

The adoption of P5G networks is gaining traction around the world. And so has the hype around its ability to deliver lightning-fast connectivity to consumers. P5G offers a myriad of advantages that we did not have before. And when delivered as a managed service, you are looking at a game changer for our customers and partners.

A shift is happening in IT, and there is no better way to get an outcome than with a managed service. When the array of potential outcomes in a solution grows exponentially, customer expectations are best met with ongoing, high-value managed services.

I am so incredibly excited to supercharge what Cisco can do with as-a-service by fueling it with managed services. And as we do this right, learn how we start a virtuous cycle of the Three Ps.

Organizations want to focus their limited resources on core competencies, whether in construction, healthcare or accounting. Increasingly, this means that they want to outsource their IT infrastructure to experts whose core expertise is in deploying and managing it. In other words, businesses want the infrastructure they rely on—such as their local network—to simply work.

Three not-for-profit (NFP) organizations provided Internet access to their low-income residents by teaming with IT consulting firm Trajectory, Cisco Managed Service Partner Catalyst Technology Group and Cisco. This is their story.

QLS Quality Solutions installed and manages a Network-as-a-Service solution for White Arkitekter, a Swedish architecture firm. Built on cisco technology, the NaaS solution eliminated network issues that the company was facing, and increased the overall productivity of its architects. Learn how Cisco can help build business outcomes for your customers.