Comments on: Cisco Betting Big on Buzzwords for Growth

By: Microsoft and HP Team Up to Take on Cisco

Microsoft and HP Team Up to Take on Cisco — Wed, 20 May 2009 01:01:38 +0000

[...] has its eye on the collaboration market, which it believes will be worth $34 billion in the coming years. Google is also pushing into this space with its Google Apps and other enterprise efforts. But [...]

By: Cisco: Revenue is Down, But Cash Stash is Up

Cisco: Revenue is Down, But Cash Stash is Up — Wed, 06 May 2009 21:55:22 +0000

[...] took only a few minutes into the call for Cisco Chairman and CEO John Chambers to get to the next big growth drivers for the network equipment company — video and collaboration. During its third quarter, Cisco said it would buy Pure Digital, [...]

By: Cisco’s Grand Video Plan - GigaOM

Cisco’s Grand Video Plan - GigaOM — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 01:19:56 +0000

[...] all video — from teleconferencing to cable — is the answer to its growth problem. Its executives anticipate video adding up to $20 billion to the equipment maker’s bottom line. Cisco is betting that cable operators and carriers [...]

By: Cisco Grasps at Video to Keep Growing | Real Big Firm

Cisco Grasps at Video to Keep Growing | Real Big Firm — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 08:26:32 +0000

[...] you’ve got to grow a $40 billion-a-year company, sometimes there’s just no way to do it other than to capitalize on fear. In the case of [...]

By: Cisco Grasps at Video to Keep Growing « NewTeeVee

Cisco Grasps at Video to Keep Growing « NewTeeVee — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 13:12:49 +0000

[...] Grasps at Video to Keep Growing When you’ve got to grow a $40 billion-a-year company, sometimes there’s just no way to do it other than to capitalize on fear. In the case of [...]

By: Cisco Boss On Cloud, SaaS, Green, Collaboration

Cisco Boss On Cloud, SaaS, Green, Collaboration — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 05:10:25 +0000

[...] Cisco Boss Betting Big On Buzzwords by Om Malik [...]

By: Blinkit - הבלוג של בלינק » ארכיון הבלוג » בסיסקו מאמינים במדיה חברתית

Blinkit - הבלוג של בלינק » ארכיון הבלוג » בסיסקו מאמינים במדיה חברתית — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 13:23:26 +0000

[...] לא קשה לאתר פעילות של סיסקו במדיה החברתית. בסיסקו לקחו החלטה אסטרטגית, שבעקבותיה יש לסיסקו נוכחות באינספור קהילות, רשתות חברתיות וכלי שיתוף חברתיים (פליקר, דלישס, יוטיוב וכו’ וכו’). כשמכניסים לתמונה גם את הפיצ’רים החברתיים שהוטמעו באתר הבית של החברה (קהילות סביב מוצרים, בלוגים, ופודקאסטים), מקבלים את אחת מחברות התוכנה המחוייבות ביותר למדיה חברתית ולאינטראקציה דו-כיוונית עם לקוחות, לקוחות פוטנציאליים ושותפים. בסיסקו עושים גם שימוש עשיר בכלי מדיה חברתית לצרכים פנים-ארגוניים (Enterprise2.0) כדי “לקדם פרודוקטיביות, צמיחה וחדשנות”. מניסיוננו, אנחנו בבלינק יודעים שכדי להגיע לעושר ועומק כאלו של פעילות מהסוג הזה נדרשות מחוייבות גבוהה מאד של הארגון, תהליך של שינוי תרבותי, וחסות של ההנהלה הבכירה. אחרי הדברים שנשא ג’ון צ’יימברס, מנכ”ל סיסקו, השבוע בכנס ה-IT של גרטנר, ברור שהמחוייבות למדיה חברתית מגיעה מראש הפירמידה. צ’יימברס מאמין שאימוץ כלי שיתוף חברתיים הוא המפתח להת�…. [...]

By: Cisco Believes in Being Social | Israel Blechman

Cisco Believes in Being Social | Israel Blechman — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 15:41:58 +0000

[...] Update: More from Om Malik [...]

By: BroadDev - Unified Communications, Virtualization, Security, and Web 2.0 » What Jabber means to Cisco

Sat, 20 Sep 2008 14:59:49 +0000

[...] Cisco isn’t done shopping yet, if Cisco analysts are to believed, they have other targets to fill up their bets on their buzzword focus namely, video, [...]

By: Cisco Buys Jabber - GigaOM

Cisco Buys Jabber - GigaOM — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 14:48:40 +0000

[...] buy instant messaging service Jabber for an undisclosed amount. The deal is another move by the networking company into the collaboration space–this time highlighting the importance of presence awareness and interoperability in [...]

By: Ranjit Nayak

Ranjit Nayak — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 18:55:59 +0000

As a lay person I can easily understand video traffic is growing. I watched the SNL clip on Sarah Palin by Tina Fey at least 3 times on the internet.

Collaboration is also something I can understand. When I work from home I am usually using the phone and computer. Phone for voice, and computer for presentations.

Virtualization seems very important in the data center and on the server side. That covers the 3 buzz words video, collaboration and virtualization.

If I let my imagination run wild, I can think of a CISCO IP phone which streams video of the person on the other end, email, as well as presentations. That would go a long way in the human collaboration. The blade servers from CISCO however did not fit into this picture. Would be very interested to understand why they would build blade servers.

Ranjit Nayak

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 17:10:26 +0000

Cisco is an incredible company. Wondering in which silo mobile falls into (my guess collaboration).

The WebEx platform will end up competing with Salesforce.com thus mobile would be a natural extension since I also believe the LinkSys One offering will become a hybrid model (hosted & premise) as well. The piece that's missing is a CRM application that that could boil down to SugarCRM or Zoho. "Complete" Unified Communications is the holy grail.

By: ken thompson

ken thompson — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 15:32:10 +0000

Hi Om

I am a great fan of collaboration and the virtualization of collaboration (in fan my entire blog is dedicated to it) however the deeper I get into working with virtual teams, virtual communities and virtual networks the more I realise that it has almost nothing to do with technology and almost all to do with people issues.

I wish Cisco luck!

Best Regards

Ken Thompson http://www.bioteams.com