Small & Medium-Sized Businesses (SMB)

October 30, 2013

PERSPECTIVES

Summary: TelePresence for SMBs: It isn’t just for the big guys anymore

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If you’re in an SMB company you might think of telepresence as a tool built for enterprise, something that would be nice to have for your small business but just out of reach. You’d be wrong. Video conferencing solutions like Telepresence and even web-based technologies like WebEx are more affordable than ever, making them a […]

Cloud and Advanced Services Are Service Providers’ Keys To Tapping the Fragmented $200 Billion Small and Medium Busine …

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By Neeraj Kumar and Kevin Suh, Cisco Consulting Services The small and medium sized-business (SMB) commercial-services market is important for all types of service providers (SPs). SMBs account for more than half of total U.S. commercial-services spending, according to AMR Research/Gartner. And, the portion of the U.S. SMB commercial-services market that service providers could capture […]

July 10, 2013

PARTNER

Continuing Our Midmarket Momentum With Partners

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Gordon Mackintosh shares exciting changes ahead for Cisco and its partners selling into the SMB space.

How Are You Weathering Industry Storms? Five Ways To Help SPs Turn Disruption into Transformation

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Service providers (SPs) have been wracked by wave after wave of disruption, creating new winners and losers on every front. Traditional carriers continue to look for ways to make up for lost voice revenues; over-the-top (OTT) players have redefined the ways video is delivered and consumed; exponential growth in mobile data traffic devours network capacity […]

May 9, 2013

DATA CENTER

Cbeyond: Taking Our SMB Cloud Offering to the Next Level

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By Chris Ortbals, Senior Vice President, Product Management , Cbeyond Inc.   At the company’s inception in 1999, Cbeyond saw the potential...

With Targeted Professional Services, Service Providers Can Tap Small and Medium-Sized Business’s Demand for Cloud

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By Uwe Lambrette and Evgenia Ryabchikova, IBSG Service Provider Cloud is no longer a nascent market. The explosive growth of public-cloud providers —coupled with the relevance of the network in the delivery of cloud and IT services — has led many service providers (SPs) to treat this game-changing transition as a natural extension of their […]

Cisco’s New Small Business Portfolio—Fortifying the Future

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The number of mobile-connected devices has broken the 1 billion mark. That’s not too surprising, given that as we grow more reliant on our devices and mobility, we also become more reliant on the Internet to get things done, take care of customers, and expand our businesses. In fact, we see a future that is […]

Cisco’s New SMB Business Portfolio – Essential Tools for Secure Productivity

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A key trait of innovative small and medium sized businesses (SMBs) is agility– making decisions quickly, shifting direction with a customer, and swiftly working out the details with colleagues. But at the end of the day, what it all comes down to is having the right technology—to enable responsiveness, increase overall productivity, and keep SMBs […]

January 17, 2013

PARTNER

Where Are You Focusing Your Sales Efforts in 2013? Check Out the Lucrative Mid Market

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Check out highlights from my recent interview with Alexander Group Senior Vice President Gary Tubridy to discuss how Cisco is engaging with our partners to do more.