Cisco Partners

If you attended this year’s Partner Summit, live or virtually, you might have heard Wendy Bahr talk about the need for Cisco and our partners to focus more on our customers’ business outcomes and own the opportunity together. At face value, it sounds simple. What she’s really talking about is an evo…

Concerts, festivals, sports. It’s all about the connecting with the music, the game –  watching the same thing at the same time. So naturally, fans want to join the connection and share, post, and tweet. But if 25,000 other people are doing the same thing on a shaky network, all you’re going t…

A few weeks ago Cisco brought over 2,000 global partners to Dallas, Texas for Partner Summit 2017 to share our strategy and vision for the year ahead. I want to say a big thank you to our partners for joining us in person, as well as those of you who joined virtually. For me, the event was the perfe…

On the heels of a very successful Partner Summit, it’s clear that our partners continue to “own IT” and are viewed as the best in the business. Through the years, Cisco has also built a reputation as a world-class selling organization. But as the subscription economy emerged a few years back, we saw…

Imagine being responsible for 675 trillion euros worth of security transactions every single year. And on top of that, making sure that all involved accounts are secure and up to date. That’s the everyday job of a financial services customer of the UK-based Cisco partner, Metsi. Around the world, t…

Cisco Partner Summit often comes and goes in a flash with three days packed with sessions, networking and celebrating. However, I believe there was a palpable difference at Partner Summit in Dallas last week. The momentum that continued to build over the course of the week and since the Americas ses…

Last week saw Cisco’s Partner Summit taking place in Dallas, Texas – a fantastic opportunity to spend time with partners, analysts, press and Cisco employees and collectively discover how we can all ‘OWN IT’ – the theme of the conference. ‘The Big D’ is a city famous for many things – it’s whe…

Last week at Partner Summit, Cisco hosted a total of 1,090 companies from 85 countries who collectively account for $35.7 billion in bookings for us. And one thing all these companies have in common is that they’re a Cisco Partner. At Partner Summit these Partners, who make up our ecosystem, want to…

Since its launch in 2016, the Cisco Networking Academy Talent Bridge program has connected over 1200 Networking Academy students to jobs with Cisco partners. This week at Cisco Partner Summit, Cisco is unveiling a pilot program that will make it even easier for our partners to connect to, contact, a…