Cisco Spark

The innovations Chuck, Rowan, and team shared at Cisco Live opened yet another chance for us to share the limelight on the digital transformation stage. Cisco is clearly leading this production, and providing the Digital Network Architecture and partner ecosystem to deliver the enormous benefits of…

For the second year, Gartner has positioned Cisco as a Leader in the 2016 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Unified Communications for Midsized Enterprises, North America. We believe this is a significant achievement. Gartner puts a lot of analysis into these reports. Last year was the inaugural publicatio…

It’s Thursday and the sun has set in Las Vegas. That means it’s still hotter than blazes outside, but we’ve closed the books on Cisco Live 2016. It was a busy week of summer camp for geeks. How busy? CMO Karen Walker threw some mighty stats at the closing keynote crowd: The Cisco technical team bui…

And we’re off! With 28,000 people attending in via three locations in Las Vegas and nearly 100,000 tuned to the online broadcast, Chuck Robbins had the attention of a lot of people today. No need for a gradual start — although Robbins did question the wisdom of morning keynotes (especially in…

If there’s one thing I can say about the Collaboration Technology Group (CTG), it’s that no one ever seems to sit still. There’s always something new coming along, in the works, and on the roadmap. And with multiple product areas coming together within CTG, it may sometimes feel like a blizzard. On…

Regardless of where you are in adopting collaboration technologies, we’re focused on delivering what works best for your needs. Since starting with VoIP, we’ve expanded our portfolio’s depth and breadth. We continue to lead in the enterprise voice space, with a worldwide market share of 39%, b…

My first InfoComm experience proved to be quite insightful, especially regarding the 100+ degree days we faced in Las Vegas! As a booth tour guide, it was interesting to see the parts of the Cisco booth that gained the most attraction. Here are some of my observations from the show: Integrators Prov…

A recent study analyzed more than 100 million emails and 60 million calendar entries from a 100,000-employee company over three months. The results are interesting. When two people were in the same business unit, function, and office, they interacted 1,000 times more often than two people in otherwi…

Fun at work? For me, it’s making stuff customers need. I admit that I have long been a skeptic of the “Fun at Work” movement. It’s not that I don’t like to have fun at work, but “the movement” seemed so shamelessly upbeat and forced. This fun was not natural for me. I was vigorously nodding my head…