by Cisco Guest Blog
10,000 and Growing: The Cisco UCS Opportunity
A few days ago Cisco Systems announced a significant milestone in our Unified Computing System (UCS) program – we announced that we had just shipped to our 10,000th UCS customer. It’s a pretty amazing feat as in just over two years of designing, manufacturing, and shipping our own Intel-based server line we’ve established ourselves in the Datacenter compute market with an award winning, innovative, and game changing portfolio offering.
Welcome to 2012. The first IT trend of the New Year: Many high-tech companies enter 2012 with new or recently named CEOs (examples include AMD, Apple, Google, Hewlett-Packard and IBM). Plus, a lengthy list of prominent CEOs (representing Cisco Systems, Dell, Microsoft, Oracle and Research in Motion) are under pressure to boost sales, profits and channel partner success. Here’s what channel partners should expect.
Yawn. It’s just past midnight here in New York. The VAR Guy is getting ready to go to bed — with a big bowl of ice cream, of course. But before our resident blogger signs off for sweeter pursuits, here are six pieces of high-tech news that The VAR Guy didn’t have time to write for the week ending Nov. 4, 2011.
Amanda Jobbins, VP of partner marketing at Cisco Systems, is focusing on five core priorities to help channel partners more closely engage their end-customers. Jobbins described her strategy during a chat with The VAR Guy earlier today.
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It’s Columbus Day here in the U.S., which means many businesses are closed for the holiday. But The VAR Guy is plugging away and in catch-up mode. In fact, here are six pieces of high-tech news for channel partners that The VAR Guy didn’t have time to write for the week ending Oct. 7, 2011.

Cisco Systems has published the second of its annual 
And so it begins. After a bleak summer that included 6,500 job cuts,
Michael Capellas (pictured) is no longer CEO of
Cisco Systems is adding to its
Instead of cutting VIP (Value Incentive Program) financial rewards to channel partners,