Cisco Spark

March 8, 2016

COLLABORATION

Cisco Acquires Synata to Solve a Tricky Problem: How Do You Search What You Can’t See?

2 min read

I recently bought a new home and even before I’d signed the papers I was mentally making a punch-list of things I wanted to change and improve. The Cisco Spark team loves punch lists, too. From the beginning, two things have been at the top of our list: world-class security and incredible search. Just like […]

March 7, 2016

COLLABORATION

Enterprise Connect, Day 1 Wrap-Up

3 min read

Enterprise Connect definitely got underway today in Orlando. The sessions grew more crowded throughout the day and the halls got busier. I heard a lot of talk about cloud, hybrid, UCaaS, and WebRTC just in passing conversations. (And I finally stopped looking for small dogs – the jingle of the badge lanyards somehow sounds like […]

March 3, 2016

COLLABORATION

Imagine What Is Possible with Cisco Advanced Services

2 min read

You can do some pretty interesting things with Cisco Spark rooms these days. With the Spark integrations, you can now interact with content and data, not just people. For example, you could add Instagram to one of your rooms and follow a specific hashtag, like “ciscospark.” Every time “ciscospark” appears on Instagram, that photo post […]

February 9, 2016

PERSPECTIVES

#CiscoChampion Radio, S3|Ep. 5. The Wonderful World of Spark and APIs

1 min read

#CiscoChampion Radio is a podcast series by Cisco Champions as technologists. Today we’re discussing The Wonderful World of Spark and APIs with Cisco Subject Matter Expert Jose de Castro. Jose joined Cisco as part of the Tropo acquisition where he was the CTO. Get the Podcast Listen to this episode Download this episode (right-click on the […]

February 5, 2016

COLLABORATION

Cisco Is Bringing Some Big Stars to ISE 2016

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Integrated Systems Europe is once again upon us in chilly Amsterdam, and Cisco Collaboration will be attending for the third year in a row. We always bring along our industry-best collaboration gear to showcase alongside the amazing AV equipment at ISE. This year, we have some particularly bright stars in the mix. Starring the DX80 […]

December 15, 2015

COLLABORATION

Devops Means “No, you cannot operate my cloud”

6 min read

One of the things I really believe strongly is that modern SaaS software development – both the practices and code it produces – are significantly different from traditional enterprise premises-based software development. Yet, I find that for people who have never built and operated a modern SaaS platform, these differences are difficult to grasp.

December 9, 2015

COLLABORATION

Cisco Collaboration Summit: Notes from Day 2

2 min read

It was a busy day in San Francisco. OK, it’s probably always a busy day in San Francisco. BCV0XCUdUYAAVGOOut the second day of Cisco Collaboration Summit was definitely a busy one. Consultants and analysts toured centers of innovation, partners dug deeper into the announcements from Tuesday, and customers grilled executives.

December 9, 2015

COLLABORATION

SX10 and Spark: A Connection in the Cloud

3 min read

Just a few weeks ago, I wrote about a Wainhouse review that evaluated the ease of use and deployment, and cost efficiency of the Cisco SX10 Quick Set for small group video meetings. I wouldn’t have thought when we introduced the SX10 a few years back that we would be able to do even more […]

December 8, 2015

COLLABORATION

Cisco Collaboration Summit: Notes from Day 1

3 min read

It’s always nice to have your CEO stop by your event’s opening keynote. So it’s safe to say that Cisco’s Rowan Trollope had a pretty good day after CEO Chuck Robbins joined him on stage for the Cisco Collaboration Summit keynote.