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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…

Will You Sniff and Scurry? Or Hem and Haw? One of my favorite business parables is a New York Time’s bestseller by Dr. Spencer Johnson, Who moved my cheese? It is a tale of adapting to change, for change happens and is constant. The way to cope is to anticipate, monitor, adapt, change, enjoy the cha…

Now’s the time to write the next chapter If you’ve been working in tech for as long as I have, you know that nothing stays the same for long. Cisco has always been a part of that change.  We have now entered the new era of digital business and Cisco wants to help partners navigate the changing custo…

Own It. That’s the theme for Cisco Partner Summit 2017, and it couldn’t be more apt for the program news we’re sharing at this year’s summit. We’ve been on a listening tour, hearing what partners think we’re doing well and what we could be doing better. And we’re owning that feedback by making it ou…

At Cisco, we are always looking for ways to make it easier for our partners to do business with us, grow, and become more profitable. It’s our commitment to work alongside you to discover untapped opportunities to accelerate revenue, and along the way, address the core barriers to achieving successf…

If you saw our October 25 announcement regarding our partnership with Google, then you know we’re working together to deliver a hybrid cloud solution to enable applications and services to be deployed, managed and secured across on-premises environments and Google Cloud Platform. For enterprise cust…