Bryan Bedford

Discover the announcements from Cisco Live and how they complement our comprehensive industrial networking portfolio giving you the opportunity to deliver an end-to-end solution to your customers with enterprise and industrial use cases.

Cisco and Intel have been working together to transform storage, compute, and network switching to revolutionize the industry alongside our fantastic ecosystem of partners. Let me share a few of the cool things we are partnering with Intel to accomplish.

These innovations accelerate strong partnership between IT and OT teams to drive operational efficiency, improve resiliency at an industrial scale, reduce downtime of critical infrastructure, drive greater business productivity, and enhance overall safety and security.

I'm very excited to share several innovations, partnerships and success stories as Cisco prepares to attend the International Broadcast Convention (IBC) Sept. 9-12 in Amsterdam.

The most successful businesses are often the ones that aren’t content to simply play by the rules. At Cisco, we call that “performing and transforming” as a partner. Cisco partner AmpThink isn’t just playing the game, it’s redefining it for the entertainment venue industry—and it’s winning.

Learn about some of the actionable plans you can start working on—right now—to begin your Partner Transformation journey. There's no need to transform everything at once. Here are three ways Cisco can help you get started: training via the Cisco DevNet sandbox, a focus on customer success through the Cisco Lifecycle Advantage Program, and connecting with potential co-selling partners through the all-new Partner Connect feature on the Partner Experience Portal.

Even before the craziness of 2020, our partners have been transforming as they figure out how to best leverage cloud, SaaS, managed services, customer experience, line-of-business selling/solutions, and API integration, while also looking at new consumption models that their customers now demand.

Cisco Business Critical Services (BCS 3.0), coupled with partner services and capabilities, is exactly what customers need to ensure network resilience and continuity. The following use cases are examples of how Cisco and our partners can meet those needs for customers.

The pace of change in retail isn’t stopping. Cisco and its partner ecosystem is perfectly equipped to solve for the industry and will be at Cisco Live in San Diego!