Bruce Klein

As the Cisco Partner Ecosystem continues its growth, and customers transform IT to increase business outcomes, we want to create opportunity for our partners so they can choose what makes sense for their business, and pick the roles they want to play in the marketplace.  A priority is driving partne…

Today, Cisco is filing two lawsuits to stop ARISTA’s repeated and pervasive copying of key inventions in Cisco products. These suits cover key Cisco proprietary patented features and Cisco’s copyrighted materials. Our action is based on the principle that to compete in technology, you need to innova…

Back in March, as part of Cisco Partner Summit, I presented the Cisco Partner Ecosystem, which includes our existing channel program and our services program, and involves a much broader set of partners, such as Independent Software Vendors (ISVs), technology and consulting firms. Since Partner Summ…

I spent a great week in Chicago at Cisco Marketing Velocity and, as promised, now I’m back to share one last quick recap of the event, including the replays of the speakers’ sessions.  Hopefully you had a chance last week to take a look at my entry on Velocity about the partner award winners and VP…

At this year’s Cisco Partner Summit, Chuck Robbins announced the upcoming availability of SalesConnect. SalesConnect was originally announced at Cisco Partner Summit 2013 in Boston and we promised then that we would have a functional version within 18 months. Well as Chuck suggested in Las Vegas, we…

Each week, we’ll highlight the most important Cisco partner news and stories, as well as point you to important, Cisco-related partner content you may have missed along the way. Here’s what you might have missed this week: Kickoff for Partner Summit 2014 This year’s Cisco Partner Summit starts in ju…

Each year, CRN announces its list of Channel Chiefs. This list constitutes a “who’s who” within the world of channel management. According to CRN, these folks head up the partner programs that you all depend on to run your businesses. I am extremely honored to be one of the named Channel Chiefs this…

Each week, we’ll highlight the most important Cisco partner news and stories, as well as point you to important, Cisco-related partner content you may have missed along the way. Here’s what you might have missed this week: Off the Top Bruce Klein offered us his thoughts on the Internet of Everything…

Each week, we’ll highlight the most important Cisco partner news and stories, as well as point you to important, Cisco-related partner content you may have missed along the way. Here’s what you might have missed this week: Well here we are. We have reached the last Cisco Partner Weekly Rewind of the…