Cisco Spark
Cisco Spark Is Here
Yes, Cisco Spark has arrived! That cool mobile business messaging app we launched a year ago has grown up. It’s now a full-blown business communications service from the Cisco cloud. We are really excited about bringing this to market and are encouraged by some of the early reactions, including an a…
Cisco Acquires Synata to Solve a Tricky Problem: How Do You Search What You Can’t See?
I recently bought a new home and even before I’d signed the papers I was mentally making a punch-list of things I wanted to change and improve. The Cisco Spark team loves punch lists, too. From the beginning, two things have been at the top of our list: world-class security and incredible search. Ju…
Enterprise Connect, Day 1 Wrap-Up
Enterprise Connect definitely got underway today in Orlando. The sessions grew more crowded throughout the day and the halls got busier. I heard a lot of talk about cloud, hybrid, UCaaS, and WebRTC just in passing conversations. (And I finally stopped looking for small dogs – the jingle of the badge…
Imagine What Is Possible with Cisco Advanced Services
You can do some pretty interesting things with Cisco Spark rooms these days. With the Spark integrations, you can now interact with content and data, not just people. For example, you could add Instagram to one of your rooms and follow a specific hashtag, like “ciscospark.” Every time “ciscospark” a…
#CiscoChampion Radio, S3|Ep. 5. The Wonderful World of Spark and APIs
#CiscoChampion Radio is a podcast series by Cisco Champions as technologists. Today we’re discussing The Wonderful World of Spark and APIs with Cisco Subject Matter Expert Jose de Castro. Jose joined Cisco as part of the Tropo acquisition where he was the CTO. Get the Podcast Listen to this episode…
Cisco Is Bringing Some Big Stars to ISE 2016
Integrated Systems Europe is once again upon us in chilly Amsterdam, and Cisco Collaboration will be attending for the third year in a row. We always bring along our industry-best collaboration gear to showcase alongside the amazing AV equipment at ISE. This year, we have some particularly bright st…
Devops Means “No, you cannot operate my cloud”
One of the things I really believe strongly is that modern SaaS software development – both the practices and code it produces – are significantly different from traditional enterprise premises-based software development. Yet, I find that for people who have never built and operated a modern SaaS pl…
Cisco Collaboration Summit: Notes from Day 2
It was a busy day in San Francisco. OK, it’s probably always a busy day in San Francisco. But the second day of Cisco Collaboration Summit was definitely a busy one. Consultants and analysts toured centers of innovation, partners dug deeper into the announcements from Tuesday, and customers grilled…
SX10 and Spark: A Connection in the Cloud
Just a few weeks ago, I wrote about a Wainhouse review that evaluated the ease of use and deployment, and cost efficiency of the Cisco SX10 Quick Set for small group video meetings. I wouldn’t have thought when we introduced the SX10 a few years back that we would be able to do even more to reduce c…