Executive Platform

June 24, 2013

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

Anittel begins roll-out of Cisco HCS with Tasmanian Government in Australia

Cisco partner Anittel has announced that it will be implementing a new communication system, based on Cisco Hosted Collaboration Solution, for the Tasmanian Government. By hosting its communication and collaboration systems in the cloud, the Tasmanian Government will optimise internal processes and…

June 23, 2013

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Cisco to Partner with The University of Melbourne at the Inaugural Australian Centre for Workplace Leadership

Last Friday, Cisco welcomed the announcement by the Australian Federal Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations, Hon. Bill Shorten that The University of Melbourne was selected to establish the inaugural Australian Centre for Workplace Leadership (ACWL) at a press conference hosted in our Mel…

June 21, 2013

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At the close of the NASDAQ bell, let Cisco Live! begin

Today, as Cisco EVP and CFO Frank Calderoni presided over the closing bell ceremony at NASDAQ with our customers and with the Cisco Live! logo behind him, I couldn’t help but get excited about this year’s Cisco Live! Cisco Live, Cisco’s annual IT and Communications conference, starts in…

June 20, 2013

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Cisco Announces Intent to Acquire Composite Software

Big data and cloud are drastically changing today’s IT landscape. The proliferation of traditional and new data sources plus the movement of data to the cloud complicate a company’s ability to access all of its data assets. This creates an important need to complement traditional data warehousing by…

June 19, 2013

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New Study Reveals How the Internet of Everything (#IoE) Could be The Key to Economic Growth

One noted economist believes “the real impact of the electronic revolutions has already occurred.”  We could not disagree more. With over 2B more people and 37B more things planning to join the Internet by 2020, our economic analysis identifies a potential “value at stake” of $14.4 trillion. T…

June 18, 2013

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The Model for Next Generation IT

The promise of the Internet of Everything (IoE) looms near, and as the networked connections between people, process, data and things exponentially increase, the opportunity for private industry sits at $14.4 trillion USD.  And the potential for humanity is limitless.  This means that the future of…

June 18, 2013

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Women Leading in the Workplace

Long after she made it cool to be a woman in high tech, Sheryl Sandberg is now making it popular to talk about gender in the workplace. The Facebook COO is sparking wide discussion about female ambition with her blockbuster book “Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead”. In my latest blog post on…

June 14, 2013

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Using Open Source in Networked Environments

While the topic of Open Source is not new,  the topic of using open source in today’s networks has gained momentum in recent times, which, not surprisingly, coincides with the broader conversation of open networking. While there is considerable interest, there is also a lot of confusion. Several que…

June 11, 2013

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Synergy: “Cisco Grabs Lead in Cloud Infrastructure Equipment”

My father taught me at a young age that hard work pays off.   Over the years, this lesson has proven to be true, again and again.  I reflected on this important lesson this week when new Q1 data from Synergy Research Group showed that Cisco has taken over leadership of the cloud infrastructure equip…