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<item><title>Cisco Sets Limits to Cloud Strategy</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 08:18:56 -0400</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[Cisco CTO Padmasree Warrior says the networking giant has no interest in providing infrastructure as a service. Cisco's role in the cloud is providing the tools and enablement strategy to help others build clouds, she says.<br/>   -  Cisco Systems Padmasree Warrior says the networking giant has no plans to
fully engage in cloud computing market, but rather act as a player that
supports and enables the remote delivery of applications and services.
In a virtual roundtable with journalists and analysts around the world,
Ciscos ...]]></description>
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<item><title>Cisco Creates 'Ph.D' Technology Certification</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 09:16:31 -0400</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[Cisco's new Certified Architect aims to create a new class of IT professional, one that's able to design complex systems that meet business needs and objectives. The program is structured more like a doctorate dissertation than a traditional technology certification.<br/>   -  Many vendor and industry technical certifications such as the Microsoft
Certified Systems Engineer and the Cisco Certified Network Professional reflect
a persons mastery of technical domains, but not necessarily the mastery of
technology in a business and design context.
Today, Cisco unveils its...]]></description>
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<item><title>Cisco's New Servers: What's Different from the Rest?</title>
<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 14:01:06 -0400</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[Cisco is taking aim at a market thats not only plummeting sales-wise, but also saturated by market leaders. What give s them confidence when feature-to-feature its servers dont look much different than the rest?<br/>   -  Given the precipitous drop in net-new server sales during this recession, Ciscos launch into the entry-level rack mount space this week seems somewhat counterintuitive. Especially at the commodity level, a market segment that doesnt offer much margin and is already saturated with volume-based produc...]]></description>
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<item><title>Cisco Unveils New SMB-Focused Products</title>
<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 09:45:18 -0400</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[Cisco doubles down on its SMB-focused efforts, unveiling new products, services and strategy aimed at gaining the networking giant a greater share of the lucrative SMB market.<br/>   -  At its annual Partner Summit this week, Cisco doubled down on its efforts to expand its presence in the SMB market by introducing new products and incentives to help partners increase sales and profitability.

About a year ago, Cisco began building a sales, marketing, manufacturing and support inf...]]></description>
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<item><title>Cisco CEO: Video to Drive Market Expansion, Acquisitions Likely</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 16:43:30 -0400</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[Cisco CEO John Chambers, hinting that his company may be on the hunt for more acquisitions, said the next generation of communications is all about video and a connected life experience.<br/>   -  Cisco (NASDAQ:CSCO) CEO John Chambers hinted that his company may be
on the hunt for more acquisitions, saying that Cisco already has
entered 30 adjacent markets to its core networking infrastructure
market, and plans to be in 50 adjacent markets within 18 months.



“The next generation of c...]]></description>
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<item><title>VARs to CEO John Chambers: We Want UCS and ‘Unified Cisco'</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 09:20:29 -0400</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[Solution providers speak out on what they'd like to hear from the chief executive's keynote slated to close Cisco's annual partner summit later today.<br/>   -  Ciscos annual Partner Summit winds down in Boston today but theres one more event attendees have to look forward to this afternoon: Ciscos longtime CEO John Chambers keynote. Channel Insider asked select Cisco solution providers to share their thoughts on what theyd like to hear from the big man him...]]></description>
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<item><title>Cisco Pulls Back Curtain on Rack-Mounted Servers</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 17:21:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[Conventional C-Series servers characterized as an entry-ramp to the forthcoming--but not here yet--technologies in Ciscos much-hyped Unified Computing System.<br/>   -  When Cisco Systems announced it was entering the blade server market at the beginning of the year on the heels of earlier jumps into storage, unified communications and security it was clear that the titan of networking was seeking a world beyond switches and routers.
At the Cisco Partner Summit in...]]></description>
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<item><title>Cisco Extends Payment Terms, Financing Options</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 12:21:21 -0400</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[Cisco is extending payment terms to 90-days for solution providers using financing programs for product sales. Cisco says the six-month program will allow partners to keep working capital for technology and business investments.<br/>   -  Cisco Systems is continuing to try to stimulate partner sales and profitability through its financing options, and is extending payment terms to 90 days for the next six months for solution providers already participating in its financing programs.
Over the last six months, Cisco has rolled out a s...]]></description>
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<item><title>Collaboration First Up for Cisco Partners</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 09:20:32 -0400</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[At its partner event today, Cisco is introducing IP telephony endpoints, expanded opportunities to sell TelePresence systems, and new collaboration and unified communications solutions and licensing options.<br/>   -  BOSTON: Less than a month after Cisco Systems showed even it isn't immune to the current economy, the networking, storage and server-wannabe vendor is marshalling its channel for the future. First up on the agenda for this week's partner event is today's announcement of new programs, packages and pr...]]></description>
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<item><title>Cisco Partners Eye Partner Summit to Get Scoop on Servers</title>
<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 14:59:02 -0400</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[Ciscos announcement in March that it would move into the hardware space with a new server product set partner tongues wagging -- in Boston next week partners want details.<br/>   -  









Cisco
partners are eager to learn more about the networking giants UCS
solution in the data center, and find out how Cisco plans to help them
grow international business opportunities.

As Cisco prepares for its 2009 Channel Partner Summit, to be held June
1-4 in Boston, so...]]></description>
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<item><title>Cisco Moves to Make Collaboration More Mobile</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 17:06:35 -0400</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[Cisco Systems has launched a new initiative--Collaboration in Motion--to bring collaboration applications to the mobile world.<br/>   -  Cisco's  Collaboration in Motion initiative ties together a variety of existing and new products, as well as a new program for third-party vendors, to help shift partners from selling 802.11n access points to selling combined solutions that can go into very specific horizontals and verticals with a ...]]></description>
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<item><title>Cisco Collaboration in Motion Provides Mobility</title>
<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 09:10:30 -0400</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[The networking giant's latest initiative ties together a variety of existing and new products, as well as a new program for third-party vendors, to help shift partners from selling 802.11n access points to selling combined solutions.<br/>   -  Cisco Systems has launched a new initiative to bring collaboration applications to the mobile world.

The Collaboration in Motion initiative ties together a variety of existing and new products, as well as a new program for third-party vendors, to help shift partners from selling 802.11n access po...]]></description>
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<item><title>Cisco Boosts Partner Profitability on Core Routing/Switching</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 09:40:51 -0400</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[Global promotion ups margins partners can earn on flagship product sales by between 5 and 10 percent, as Cisco looks to tap into an estimated $23 billion market opportunity.<br/>   -  Cisco Systems is trying to make it more profitable for its partners to sell
core routing and switching products in an effort to take advantage of what the
vendor sees as a global $23 billion (US)
opportunity.

As part of the Navigate To Accelerate program, the new Core Accelerator
promotion pr...]]></description>
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<item><title>Cisco's Chief: I'm Here to Stay</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 15:10:54 -0400</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[Cisco's John Chambers says he will continue to lead the networking giant for at least the next three to five years.<br/>   -  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Cisco Systems Inc (CSCO.O) Chief Executive John Chambers said on Monday that he would probably stay in his position for at least another three to five years.  Asked at a JP Morgan technology conference about his future plans -- for example, if he would move into politics -- the ...]]></description>
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<item><title>Cisco Helps Utilities Green Their Energy with Smart Grid</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 12:34:17 -0400</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[Cisco, together with its systems integrator channel partners, plans to deliver a so-called  Smart Grid  set of solutions to energy utilities to help them avoid power outages, help residential and business customers reduce energy consumption, and tighten up security.<br/>   -  Cisco (NASDAQ:CSCO) will partner with systems integrator channel partners, vendors and utility customers to deliver what it says will be an end-to-end, highly secure network infrastructure solution for utility companies to help their customers manage power supplies and energy consumption more effici...]]></description>
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