Julia Chen

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.

International Women’s Day is a day to recognize the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women. It’s also a day that stands as a call to action for women’s equality, because there is still progress to be made.  This month at Cisco we are running a series of blogs on this very important topic.  Let’s all #BreaktheBias together.

I reached out to several of my female channel colleagues within Cisco and at our partner organizations and asked them a few questions about biases, advice they might have for other women, and what it means to them to #BreakTheBias. 

The market shift toward as-a-Service (aaS) and managed services is creating several new opportunities for Cisco and our partners.   With success via Cisco’s channel and our recently launched agent route to market, we are excited to announce that we are expanding our agent model. 

When the pandemic prevented family members from visiting loved ones in the Wollongong Hospital ICU, Taleka, Citrus Solutions, and Cisco came together to create HowRU, an innovative virtual visitation solution.

Cisco Partner Summit 2021 starts on November 9, 2021. All registered Cisco partners can participate and enjoy the executive insights, rich content, and special guests that are the hallmarks of our premier partner event. Register today!

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.