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Ignite the Mid-Market
I am excited to kick off this blog series where you’ll hear from key Cisco Sales Business Development experts who we collaborate with to bring to market the best programs, promotions and initiatives that enable partners’ success. The first topic in our series focuses on the Mid Market customer…
Crossing the Threshold of Wireless Expectation
When is the last time you have been out and about and not had a connection for your smartphone? Do you walk into a business, be it retail, restaurant or bar, or even the doctor’s office and not expect a connection to the internet? But the pervasive nature of wireless does not stop there; insurance c…
The New Year, the Value of You!
The New Year always brings a time of reflection and a focus on the coming year. It is critical that our new year goals, include getting your customers to the next level, and also delivering value beyond connectivity. The new goals are rooted in how well we as a partner community provide insights and…
Your chance to refresh 25% of the world’s ports, and make them Intent-based ready
The Catalyst expansion with the Catalyst 9200 addresses a large target in the mid-size and branch office markets. Try to imagine that these markets represent 25% of all the network ports in the world. To think about this in another way, 25% of all the land mass on earth would represent the combinati…
Post Partner Summit, Partner Priorities for 2019
Cisco Partner Summit 2018 reinforced many things for me. Most significantly, I continued to receive positive feedback from you and witnessed your continued support for our vision for the future together. At the same time, I was once again struck by the rapid pace of progress. It is unmistakable, eve…
The Next Step in Intent-based Networking for the WAN
Cisco is announcing another major milestone on the path to intent-based networking for the WAN. About a year ago, when we announced the acquisition of Viptela, the leader in software-defined WAN (SD-WAN) technologies, we promised integration of Viptela SD-WAN. The Cisco SD-WAN solution (based on Vip…
Get Ready to Accelerate, Shift Up, and Drive More Innovation with Cisco DNA
You don’t want to miss the upcoming region partner webinars. We’re going to give you a full preview of the exciting announcements planned for Cisco Live in Orlando, which will enable you to go to the “next level” with Cisco DNA and Intent Based Networking. We’ll be announcing new capabilities and re…
Next Wave of Intent-Based Networking Innovations at Cisco PCW 2018
“Evolution requires us to continually refresh our competitive advantage. Sometimes in major cataclysms. Sometimes in dribs and drabs. Innovate forever, in other words, is neither a slogan nor an aspiration. It is a requirement.” – Geoffrey A. Moore, author of Dealing with Darwin: How Great Com…
Who Moved My Cheese?
Will You Sniff and Scurry? Or Hem and Haw? One of my favorite business parables is a New York Time’s bestseller by Dr. Spencer Johnson, Who moved my cheese? It is a tale of adapting to change, for change happens and is constant. The way to cope is to anticipate, monitor, adapt, change, enjoy the cha…