By Phil Wainewright on April 25, 2012
It hasn’t happened yet. It’s another of my predictions. But it suddenly struck me this week, as I read about the latest developments in cloud networking. Five or so years from now, the day will come when Cisco will have shrunken almost to nothing, eaten by software. Marc Andreessen’s phrase, “software is eating the world,” [...]
Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Cisco, Cisco Systems, Cloud Computing, google, Marc Andreessen, Technology / Software |
By Jason Busch on November 10, 2010
I spent the better part of yesterday at Forrester’s Sourcing and Vendor Management Forum in Chicago, which featured a number of excellent presentations by practitioners and Forrester analysts on both IT/services procurement and th…
Posted in Business | Tagged Cisco Systems, Forrester, procurement |
By Sadagopan on August 20, 2010
Cisco founded in , 1984 is a global technology powerhouse and a very admired corporation. Its seminal breakthrough of the router connecting two different computer networks laid the seed for the internet enabled networking industry.. Today, as we lo…
Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged book review, business strategy, Cisco, Cisco Systems, Emerging Models |
By R "Ray" Wang on August 9, 2010
Welcome to a part 2 of a multi-part series on The Software Insider Tech Ecosystem Model. Subsequent posts will apply the model to these leading vendors:
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By R "Ray" Wang on July 27, 2010
Is your technology provider a hardware vendor or a software vendor? Does your System Integrator now provide solutions in the cloud? These questions will continue as models converge. Hardware, software, and system integration vendors must reinvent new models of revenue. The economic recession has forced business model shifts at the major technology companies.
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By Paul Greenberg on July 13, 2010
Interesting….very interesting. If you remember a couple of years ago, I did my Companies to Watch 2009 posts – and, if you remember (and I’m sure you don’t. Why would anyone but me remember? And I barely do), I included Cisco as a company to keep eyeballing. Here are some excerpts of what I said: [...]
Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged Cisco, Cisco Systems, collaboration, e20, Enterprise 2.0, SCRM |
By James Governor on May 11, 2010
We hear a lot from Cisco these days about TelePresence (hey its even a gag in 30 Rock now) vs HP Halo… but what about Skype Video? Expectations are set high with Cisco Telepresence. You have to use one of their offices, so its a managed environment. Quality of service is a given. As chair [...]
Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Bit Miles, Cisco, Cisco Systems, hp, skype, telepresence, Videoconferencing |
By R "Ray" Wang on March 31, 2010
PEOPLE WHISPERS: MOVES, PROMOTIONS, AND MILESTONES* As always, thanks for your emails and alerts. If you’ve got a change or know of a promotion, keep dropping me a line! If you need a referral, and we’ve worked together in the past, don’t hesitate to reach out to me via Linked In. Ashesh Badani became Sr. [...]
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By Chris Selland on November 12, 2009
Not surprisingly, there’s a lot of interest and speculation in what happens next after the $HPQ acquisition of $COMS.
First of all, yes of course $HPQ is going after $CSCO (who isn’t these days?) – but as usually happens when the leader gets attacked, I expect the damage, at least in the near-term, to be minimal. [...]
Posted in Business | Tagged 3com, Cisco Systems, Hewlett-Packard, hp, M&A, Mergers & Acquisitions, Networking |
