Cisco CEO John Chambers’ closing keynote at Cisco Partner Summit has started. Here’s a point-by-point recap, including Chambers’ best guess for the timing of a significant economic recovery.
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Sure, Cisco spends billions of dollars acquiring companies and billions more on research and development. But for a scant $312,400, Cisco may have found a way to drive enterprise demand for new switches, routers, storage, servers and collaboration software. Indeed, that $312,400 investment is driving viral buzz across the Web — and will ultimately push more folks to Internet video. Here’s the scoop.
Today’s Cisco Partner Summit keynote focused on collaboration. But the bigger theme was Cisco Systems attacking (and dismissing) Hewlett-Packard’s unified communications partnership with Microsoft. Cisco Senior VP of Software Don Proctor took a number of shots at the HP-Microsoft deal. Here’s the scoop. Plus, HP’s previously stated views on this matter.
Setting the stage for this week’s Cisco Partner Summit 2009 in Boston, Channel Chief Keith Goodwin (pictured) blogged a bit about his thoughts on Microsoft’s expanded Unified Communications relationship with Hewlett-Packard. Goodwin’s blog had a few interesting items … including a prominent mention of Apple. Hmmm.
Cisco Systems is extracting revenge on The VAR Guy. Since around 2006, our resident blogger has asked Cisco channel insiders to join a range of social networks and collaboration sites. Some beta. Some real. Some successful. Some pitiful. Now, Cisco is turning the tables and pulling The VAR Guy into The Vibe — a social network built for Cisco Partner Summit 2009. Should The VAR Guy go into the light?
Conventional wisdom says Linux application developers are most cozy with distribution specialists like Red Hat, Novell and Canonical. But the folks at Cisco Systems seem to be getting tighter with the Linux developer community, thanks to the so-called AXP (Application eXtension Platform) developer contest. Here’s the scoop from The VAR Guy.
Forgive The VAR Guy for having Cisco Systems on the brain. Our resident blogger just booked travel to the 2009 Cisco Partner Summit in Boston, scheduled for June 2-4. But even before he packs for Beantown, The VAR Guy is hearing Cisco rumors — especially when it comes to small business channel initiatives.
The VAR Guy and Cisco Systems’ channel team now have two things in common. They both love Starbucks. And they both blog. Indeed, Cisco has launched a channel blog. Hmmm. Does The VAR Guy have new competition — or a new way to track Cisco’s channel news?
Time and distance prevented The VAR Guy from attending the 2008 Cisco Partner Summit in Hawaii. But The VAR Guy won’t have any excuses for skipping the 2009 Cisco Partner Summit, which will be held June 1-4 in Boston, our resident blogger has learned.
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