Executive Platform

January 24, 2013

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

Building on Success: Cisco and NetApp Expand Partnership

There’s no doubt Cisco’s Unified Computing System has achieved significant momentum since its introduction just over three years ago.  One of the key contributing factors to our growth has been the strength of our open partner ecosystem strategy.  While many of our data center competitors have chose…

January 23, 2013

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Cisco Announces Intent to Acquire Intucell

Today, I am pleased to announce Cisco’s intent to acquire Intucell, a privately held company headquartered in Ra’anana, Israel for $475 million in cash and employee retention incentives. Intucell provides software platforms for Self-Optimized Network (SON) that support mobile carrier networks worldw…

January 23, 2013

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Cisco Recognized on “Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations in the World” List (#WEF)

Cisco is honored to be on the Global 100 list of the worlds’ most sustainable companies as announced today at the World Economic Forum in Davos by Corporate Knights, a Toronto, Canada-based media and investment research company. Being recognized by Corporate Knights as a company that takes sustainab…

January 22, 2013

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WiFi All Around Us

The visibility and importance of service provider WiFi solutions have grown tremendously in the last year or so, based on a growing realization of the benefits.  And it’s not just for offload.   WiFi is a valuable tool in helping operators optimize their networks, monetize various applications, and…

January 22, 2013

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Cutting Through The Techno-Babble

The Cisco Aironet 3600 features the Highest 802.11n performance with Cisco CleanAir™ technology and is the industry’s first 4 x 4 multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) access point with three spatial streams. It has add-on options for 802.11ac or Wireless Security and Spectrum Intelligence (WSSI) Mo…

January 21, 2013

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The Future of IT

What an exciting time to be in the tech industry. We are at the beginning of a major transition to the Mobile-Cloud era. Trends like bring your own device (BYOD), access anywhere, virtualization, and machine-to-machine connections have given way to a new breed of applications. We estimate that appro…

January 17, 2013

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Cisco Makes Fortune’s “Best Companies to Work For” List 16 Years In A Row (#BestCos)

In 1930, Henry Luce started Fortune magazine. In 1990, Cisco went public through an IPO. In 1995, John Chambers became CEO of Cisco. In 1998, Fortune started its “Best Companies to Work For” List. As a young company, Cisco was pleased to be on that first list in 1998.  We’re extra proud to have been…

January 17, 2013

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Announcing Cisco Jabber for Virtual Environments with the New Release of Cisco VXI

These are exciting times. Today Cisco announced the latest release of the Cisco Virtualization Experience Infrastructure (VXI) Smart Solution and I am very pleased to share this news with you. Cisco has unveiled a new software strategy to support Cisco Jabber for virtual environments as an integral…

January 16, 2013

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Too Connected to Shower? Cisco Connected World Technology Report

A few weeks ago with the introduction of the 2012 Cisco Connected World Technology Report (CCWTR), we asked San Franciscans what they would give up in order to stay connected to the Internet and about what else they’d like to see connect to the Internet. Meanwhile, we asked our Twitter followers and…