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VARs to CEO John Chambers: We Want UCS and ‘Unified Cisco’
Cisco’s annual Partner Summit winds down in Boston today but there’s one more event attendees have to look forward to this afternoon: Cisco’s longtime CEO John Chambers’ keynote. Channel Insider asked select Cisco solution providers to share their thoughts on what they’d like to hear from the big man himself about how Cisco will move…
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Cisco CEO: Video to Drive Market Expansion, Acquisitions Likely
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 communications is about video,” Chambers said. “It’s about…
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Security Vendor SonicWall to Target MSP Integration, Licensing
Security appliance infrastructure vendor SonicWall is strengthening its play in the managed services space by offering solution providers a host of educational and marketing materials to help them get into the managed services business. But that’s just the beginning Later this year, the company plans to introduce more flexible licensing options to better match the managed…
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Microsoft Windows 7 to Hit Market in October
(Reuters) – Microsoft said on Tuesday its new Windows 7 operating system will be generally available on October 22, well ahead of its original schedule and in time for the holiday shopping season. The new operating system, which will replace the unpopular Vista, was originally planned for roll-out at the beginning of next year, but…
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Cisco Pulls Back Curtain on Rack-Mounted Servers
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 Boston on June 3, the company…
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HP Software Revamps Partner Program Licensing
Hewlett-Packard is revamping its software licensing options and software channel program in an effort to make more of a play for the managed services platform space and to better accommodate the way end-user companies and solution provider channel partners would prefer to pay. "We are helping partners reduce their risk [and] improve their cash flow…