managed service provider

March 10, 2020

PARTNER

Security Managed Services: 3 reasons to seize the partner market opportunity

According to our sixth annual CISO survey, highlights of which are summarized in our 2020 CISO Benchmark Report, 46% of respondents declare having more than 41% of their organization’s security already fully managed by third-party vendors; albeit with some wide variations between countries, topped b…

September 12, 2019

PARTNER

Great news for MSPs about our Cloud and Managed Services Program

Managed Service Providers (MSP), this one’s for you. For FY20, we’ve radically redesigned and simplified our global Cloud & Managed Services Program (CMSP)—with MSPs in mind. This is a great opportunity to help you improve your profitability and expand in the commercial and small- and mid-size m…

September 11, 2019

PARTNER

Better Together, Cisco and Managed Service Providers

August marks the end of the fiscal year at Cisco and offers an opportunity to reflect and focus on the year ahead – top of mind for everyone at Cisco is the value of partnership. We all recognize that partners are critical to our success, and we are grateful for everything you do. For new and…

June 6, 2019

PARTNER

Why Cisco for your Managed Service Practice?

I know we have not always gotten it right with Managed Service Providers (MSPs) or the Small and Medium Business (SMB) community they support and so we have been spending time with the MSP community, listening, learning and taking in your feedback. Our “listening campaign” began in early…

April 16, 2018

PARTNER

New Cisco and ConnectWise Solution Helps MSPs Capitalize on the Growing Managed Security Services Opportunity

It’s a great time to be a managed service provider (MSP). Small businesses and enterprises alike are embracing managed services, and spending is expected to grow to $257.84 billionin 2022 with a CAGR of 11.1 percent. It’s also a great time to be in the Bahamas at Cisco Partner Connection Week! We ha…

September 20, 2017

SMALL BUSINESS

SpiceWorld 2017

Hello all, Our Marketing Friends wanted to post some information about we have planned for the upcoming SpiceWorld 2017 in Austin, Texas, October 9-11. Today we have guest Craig Smyth that will provide an update for our overall Cisco plan at this popular show. Our Cisco Small Business team will be t…

July 30, 2014

NETWORKING

Scaling NFV – The Performance Challenge

In the second part of my blog series I want to cover one of the main concerns that Services Providers are facing as they explore moving to NFV and that is performance and scalability. Common concerns I hear center around latency, throughput, queuing capabilities and security. These are valid concern…

May 9, 2013

NETWORKING

InfoVista Highlights the Significance of Cisco AVC to Application Visibility for Operators

InfoVista recently announced its support for Cisco’s Application Visibility & Control (AVC) as part of its Application Visibility Services solution for communications service providers (CSPs). I took some time out this week to speak with Christopher Cullan, product marketing manager for business…