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Cisco Partners Already Sell Tandberg in the Middle
In talking to Cisco partners about the networking giant’s plan to acquire video conferencing big-leaguer Tandberg, one thing becomes very clear. Most of these guys already sell Tandberg – a lot. It makes perfect sense that they do. Cisco’s Telepresence video conferencing solution, which I’ve used and will vouch is incredibly cool technology, is nonetheless…
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Cisco’s Chambers: Partners Crucial to Success of Tandberg Deal
On the heels of announcing plans to acquire video conferencing stalwart Tandberg for $3 billion, Cisco‘s CEO John Chambers along with Tandberg CEO Fredrik Halvorsen put out a video blog meant to assure partners of their critical role in selling the combined technologies and solutions. Check it out.
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HP Pulls ProCurve in As Part of Family
At least since Cisco’s ‘Californication’, when the network giant announced it was entering the data center server market, HP has been busy shoring up its networking portfolio, culminating in this week’s announcement that its data center and network businesses will be closely tied together at some point in the near future. In addition to making…
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IBM Targets Google With Online Email
(Reuters) – IBM is introducing an inexpensive Web-based corporate email service that will compete with Google Inc’s Google Apps, which has recently suffered several high-profile outages. International Business Machines Corp will likely try to capitalize on the damage that those outages have caused to Google Apps over the past year. Last month millions of business…
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Does Windows Mobile 7 Delay Portend Zune Phone?
The repeated delay of Windows Mobile 7 is throwing the rumor mill into overdrive following the recent online leak of photos thought to represent phone prototypes from a development project at Microsoft called Project Pink. The photos and speculation around them place Microsoft’s acquisition of Danger in the spotlight and are leading many to conclude…
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Polycom Sales Chief’s Insider View of the Cisco, Tandberg Combo
If anybody has insight into the sales and channel programs of the newly combined Cisco and Tandberg video conferencing operation, it’s probably Polycom’s new executive vice president of global field operations. Andrew Miller, who joined Polycom about three months ago, has served as an executive at Cisco and also as the CEO of Tandberg. “I’m…