What the NHL Stanley Cup playoffs does to your network

Canadian channel executives love hockey; especially during the Stanley Cup playoffs. And this year is a special one, as four Canadian teams made the playoffs (Toronto Maple Leafs, Montreal Canadians, Vancouver Canucks and

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: May 10th, 2013 CDN Staff

Cisco doubles down on data centers

There was a time not too long ago where Cisco Systems and Microsoft did not get along. In fact, company CEOs John Chambers and Steve Ballmer held a debate in New York city

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: April 10th, 2013 CDN Staff

Xerox snags CA executive to lead global channel marketing

Xerox has snagged an executive from rival CA Technologies to lead a new push marketing push for the vendor and its channel partners. According to a report from Channelomics, and confirmed by her

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: April 5th, 2013 Jeff Jedras

Cisco gets new global partner marketing lead

It took some seven months, but networking vendor Cisco Systems has found its next partner marketing chief. In a blog posting late last week, Bruce Klein, Cisco’s senior vice-president for U.S. public theatre,

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: April 1st, 2013 CDN Staff

Cisco’s Internet of Everything has major channel implications

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Let’s say you want to shop at Sean Curtis’s fictional CWI retail store. A map on your mobile device indicates four nearby locations; a green pin marks the most

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: March 19th, 2013 Dave Webb

Cisco releases Quantum mobile network intelligence

Cisco has put in motion more than $1.5 billion in recent acquisitions into Quantum, a mobile network intelligence system for service providers that may enable them to provide greater network programmability. Cisco said

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: February 19th, 2013 CDN Staff

Cisco repackages itself for the mid-market

The mid-market is not new to Cisco Systems. The San Jose, Calif.-based company has been actively selling into the mid-market space for more than a decade. What's different now is that Cisco has

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: February 13th, 2013 Paolo Del Nibletto

The Internet everyone wants to own

The one thing you have to say about anything developed by an engineer or scientist is that it's never really finished. That was the vision of the Internet. A bunch of engineers and

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: February 4th, 2013 Paolo Del Nibletto

Belkin breaks the bank for Cisco Linksys acquisition

Cisco Systems has unloaded its Linksys business, which over the years became an orphaned unit at the networking giant. The buyer is home networking rival Belkin, a Playa Vista, Calif.-based privately-held vendor mostly known

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: January 25th, 2013 Paolo Del Nibletto

Cisco promises a simpler licencing regime

Tired of the complex licencing system Cisco Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO) has for all of its collaboration products? Company officials said Wednesday they are doing something about it. On a conference call with

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: January 17th, 2013 Howard Solomon

Cisco announces 11th acquisition of 2012

While Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO) may be looking to sell off non-core businesses such as Linksys, that doesn't mean it's out of the acquisition game – as long as it's core to its

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: December 18th, 2012 CDN Staff

Cisco may put Linksys on the auction block

Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO) CEO John Chambers' quest to refocus the vendor on its core business of enterprise networking may see the company soon put Linksys, its consumer and small business product division,

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: December 17th, 2012 Jeff Jedras


The next CEO of Cisco just may be a Canadian

Cisco CEO John Chambersis retiring? I honestly never thought this was a possibility. The first time I interviewed Chambers back in 1994 he was a lowly vice-president. Then in 1995 he became CEO

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: September 26th, 2012 Paolo Del Nibletto