About
Gina Narcisi is a senior editor covering the networking and telecom markets for CRN.com. Prior to joining CRN, she covered the networking, unified communications and cloud space for TechTarget. She graduated with a B.A. in communications from the University of Rhode Island and is now an L.A. transplant. Gina is a self-proclaimed foodie who enjoys yoga and traveling in her spare time.
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Aruba As-A-Service ‘Setting The Bar’ For The IT Industry: HPE’s Antonio Neri
by Gina Narcisi
‘HPE’s GreenLake is key to customers’ transformation efforts. We are strides ahead of our competitors. They are unable to match the breadth and depth of our edge-to-cloud portfolio,’ HPE President and CEO Antonio Neri said at Aruba Atmosphere 2021.
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Aruba Atmosphere 2021: 5 Bold Statements We Heard From Aruba, HPE, And Silver Peak
by Gina Narcisi
Aruba‘s Keerti Melkote, Aruba’s parent HPE’s Antonio Neri, and Silver Peak’s David Hughes came out at Aruba Atmosphere 2021 in full-force to talk edge, SD-WAN, and how the company has a leg up on the competition when it comes to the IT as a service trend.
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Aruba ESP, Now With Silver Peak, Has Cisco In Its Crosshairs
by Gina Narcisi
‘With an industry-leading wired switching, wireless, comprehensive security and now, leading SD-WAN, I believe we have a networking and security offering that can compete hands-down with anyone, including Cisco,’ Aruba tells CRN.
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6 New And Useful Cisco Webex Features For 2021
by Gina Narcisi
The Webex team has unveiled more than 400 new or upgraded features in the last six months. From in-meeting gestures to real-time translation in more than 100 languages, here’s a small sampling of some of the last Cisco Webex features.
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The 20 Richest Tech Billionaires In 2021: Forbes
by Gina Narcisi
Despite many industries taking a financial hit as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, 20 tech and telecom executives cracked the top 75 of the richest people in the world this year.
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Viptela Founders Launch App Experience ‘Disruptor’ Prosimo, Reveal $25M In Seed Funding
by Gina Narcisi
‘Our customers and partners treat us as a disruptor of sorts. They go to their flagship accounts and say; ‘I have a new vendor that’s looking at cloud differently. Do you want to take a different approach to solving this problem and radically simplify your infrastructure?’ Prosimo Co-Founder and CEO Ramesh Prabagaran tells CRN.
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Cisco Plus Offers ‘Turnkey’ As-A-Service Solutions, Not Pieces, Say Execs
by Gina Narcisi
‘We landed on this idea of not just delivering just hardware as-a-service or software as-a-service, but really looking at whole solutions -- turnkey offerings that provide our Cisco technology as-a-service in the simplest possible way,’ Cisco’s networking and cloud leader Todd Nightingale says of Cisco Plus.
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Cisco’s Oliver Tuszik: ‘We Need Partners’ To Be Successful With Consumption-Based IT
by Gina Narcisi
‘Don’t focus on Cisco being your competitor -- that’s stupid. We need our partners to be successful. Focus on the competition that you have in the market from [other partners],’ Cisco Channel Chief Oliver Tuszik says in a message to partners.
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Cisco Live 2021: 5 Bold Statements We Heard From Cisco Leaders
by Gina Narcisi
Cisco’s executive leadership team this week talked technology updates and integrations, but perhaps more importantly, shared their perspectives with CRN and more than 100,000 attendees on the major trend that shaped IT for businesses and channel partners over the past year: hybrid work.
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Cisco As-A-Service Strategy Is Taking ‘A Giant Leap Forward’: Partners
by Gina Narcisi
‘I’ve told Cisco: ‘you probably don’t hear this a lot, but you’ve just become the most agile solution in the market,’” one Cisco partner told CRN about Cisco Plus, the company’s consumption-based IT strategy.
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Cisco Webex To ‘Regain Market Share’ Vs. Zoom Post-Pandemic, Execs Say
by Gina Narcisi
“We’re hearing customers saying, ‘We’re going to get to the other side of the pandemic and then make longer-term, strategic decisions about hybrid work.’ I think that’s where we’ll have the opportunity to actually regain market share in this space,’” says Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins.
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Cisco Webex People Insights Will Boost Well-being, Inclusivity, Says Execs
by Gina Narcisi
‘So many of my peers are trying to work how to manage wellness in the workplace and insights to help people understand the way in which they are showing up. There’s a dialog right now for [partners] with HR and I think Insights will solve a lot of the challenges out there, especially in the hybrid world,’ Fran Katsoudas, Cisco’s EVP and chief people officer, tells CRN.
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Aviatrix’s Steve Mullaney: There’s No Going Back To ‘Cisco Model Of The 90s’
by Gina Narcisi
“We’re very picky, actually, about who we work with. If somebody is tied to the old, on-prem world, and selling boxes, we say: ‘Good luck and hold your breath when the boat goes down, because you’re going to get pulled under,’” the company’s CEO Steve Mullaney tells CRN.
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