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July 2, 2014

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My Cisco Live Debut

I joined Cisco five years ago as a contractor. And I’ve proudly been part of the Cisco on Cisco team for the past 2 years. This was my first Cisco Live and my first time delivering a Cisco on Cisco session at an event.  //…

June 6, 2014

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Cisco Live Program Inspires IT Managers to Drive Relevancy and Innovation

Five years ago the IT Management Program at Cisco Live had about 100 attendees. At this year’s event in San Francisco, there were more than 550 participants. And their enthusiasm was palpable. Cisco’s homegrown IT Management Program focuses on practical knowledge and insight about industry hot topic…

May 28, 2014

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My Week at CiscoLive! San Francisco 2014

SDN-SDN-SDN…No longer does it stand for “Still Does Nothing”! Welcome to the world of Cisco where today is ACI and tomorrow is a stellar collaboration lineup. I hope you are prepared for a wild ride! This year was the 25th Anniversary of Cisco Live, previously known as “Networkers”, and what an even…

May 14, 2014

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Cisco wins at recent CITE awards

We Won!! I’m pleased to announce the Cisco IT Any Device team beat 50 companies to win the “Best Business Computing Environment” at the 2014 IDG CITE awards in San Francisco. The Any Device team manage, secure, and support over 196,000 desktops, laptops, tablets and smartphones inc…

May 7, 2014

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Building a New IT Organization

If someone asked you how to build a new IT organization from the ground up, what would you advise? A Cisco Sales employee asked me that very question last week. Her global customer had recently spun off a new regional group which was planning to do just that –build a completely new IT enterprise org…

April 30, 2014

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eStore, A Winning Digital Strategy

Earlier this month, we received some great news. Cisco ranked 25th on the InformationWeek Elite top 100 leading-edge IT organizations. Our ranking is a clear result of how we are embracing mobility, analytics, and cloud technologies to cut costs, boost productivity, and essentially, provide the best…

April 14, 2014

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Summary: IT Takes a Seat at the Business Table

As an IT leader, it is time to take your seat at the business table and understand how IT can stay relevant in this Internet of Everything era. A recent Gartner Insight highlights the importance of aligning IT strategies with business goals to “remain relevant beyond 2020.” The next logical evolutio…

February 19, 2014

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Domani inizia qui (Tomorrow Starts Here) – Cisco Live Milan!

I arrived in Milan for the annual Cisco Live conference for networkers and was immediately excited by the buzz the change in host city generated (from London last year) as well as opportunity that all 7,000 attendees had to learn about connecting technology architecture with business architecture to…

October 23, 2013

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Cisco IT at CiscoLive! Cancun 2013

With the theme Tomorrow Starts Here – El Mañana comienza Hoy, CiscoLive! Latin America will be returning to México on the 5th November 2013, at the Moon Palace Golf & Spa resort in Cancun! Once again, attendees will have the opportunity to learn about all the latest technologies that Cisco has t…