Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins has moved aggressively to transform the networking giant to a software- and subscription-focused company. Here are the major Cisco executive moves that have accompanied Robbins' push into the software-centric world.
Alison Gleeson is a more-than 20-year Cisco employee who started with the San Jose, Calif., company in 1996 as a regional sales manager and worked her way up through the company's commercial sales ranks.
"This absolutely represents the highest density product in our lineup today by a large margin," said Todd Brannon, director of product marketing for UCS, regarding the new UCS C4200.
The Artificial Intelligence Ready Infrastructure, or AIRI, which was jointly developed by Nvidia and Pure Storage for Pure's channel partners, now comes in a smaller version the company hopes will open it up to a wider range of customers.
Cisco CEO Chunk Robbins touted growth in key business units, including applications and security, and discussed the success of its Catalyst 9000 series of switches.
The Tech Data Cisco Partner Enablement Framework is getting a heavy dose of automation along with deeper levels of distributor involvement as a way to help Cisco's solution providers see increased growth.
Now that Tech Data's Tech-as-a-Service program for end-point laptops, printers, and peripherals has come to market, the distributor is looking to add networking, servers and storage, and managed print services over the next year or two.
CloudBlue, a new division of Ingram Micro, was developed with Microsoft Azure to provide a cloud base on which large telcos, MSPs, and even other distributors can build turnkey cloud commerce platforms.
Replacing Trollope as leader of Cisco's collaboration division will be Amy Chang, a Cisco board member whose startup, Accompany, Cisco said Tuesday it had reached a deal to acquire for $270 million.
Replacing Trollope as leader of Cisco's collaboration division will be Amy Chang, a Cisco board member whose startup, Accompany, Cisco said Tuesday it had reached a deal to acquire for $270 million.
The Cisco system is in early development and executives say pilot programs in Europe are promising for partners willing to develop capabilities around artificial intelligence and customer business outcomes.
Cisco has announced that the former Spark platform will be known as Webex Teams, and it comes along with the launch of a new Webex Meetings application, as well as a new Webex Assistant and a Webex Share device.
Wendy Bahr sat down with CRN to discuss how she is pushing Cisco partners to drive the services, software technology and subscription-based consumption models upon which the networking giant is staking its future.
"When you couple in that lifecycle value and services revenue, these are the three big tickets," Bahr said during a keynote at the networking giant's Partner Connection Week conference Tuesday.
The networking giant is offering its routing portfolio on a subscription basis. The offering follows the introduction of its subscription-based Catalyst 9000 series of switches a little less than a year ago.
The new funding, slated to be its last round, is expected to carry the object storage developer through the next two years before it becomes cash-flow-positive.
The U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team says Russian state-sponsored hackers are attacking networking devices, including Cisco Smart Install Client, to gain login credentials, modify device firmware and redirect traffic.
