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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Cisco’s Oliver Tuszik: ‘What A Surprise. Partners Are Driving Recurring Subscriptions’
by Gina Narcisi
“Cisco already shifted into software and the partners share in this space? It grew. We are now at a higher partner share than before … That proves what we’re always saying: in this future, the partners are becoming even more important,” Cisco Channel Chief Oliver Tuszik tells CRN.
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Cisco’s Top Execs On Plans To Aggressively Grow Subscriptions By 2025
by Gina Narcisi
Cisco has been on a mission to become a software company in recent years and the tech giant is now aiming for sales from subscriptions to make up half of its revenue by fiscal 2025. Here‘s what Cisco’s CEO, CFO, and executive leadership team said about its plans to further subscriptions.
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Cisco CFO: ‘We Are One Of The Biggest Software Companies In The World’
by Gina Narcisi
‘Cisco is one of the biggest software companies in the world and I don’t think anyone thinks of Cisco in those terms,’ Scott Herren, Cisco’s CFO, said during the company’s Investor Day Wednesday.
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Zoomtopia 2021: 7 Zoom Features Coming Soon To A Meeting Near You
by Gina Narcisi
From partnerships with Oculus for a virtual reality-based meeting experience, to integrations with third-party collaboration vendors like Cisco Webex and security updates, here are seven Zoom products and features coming to the platform later this year.
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Zoom Phone Will Be Promoted Through Resellers Via New Partner Program
by Gina Narcisi
Currently in beta, the reseller program for Zoom Phone Bring Your Own Carrier (BYOC) will push Zoom Phone through the reseller partner community, the company announced at Zoomtopia Partner Connect 2021.
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Juniper Mist ‘Pixie Dust’ Extended To Campus Fabric Management
by Gina Narcisi
The networking giant is adding VPN-VXLAN campus fabric management thanks to technology from its recent Apstra purchase. Juniper also added nine new “actions” to its AI engine, Marvis, for partners and enterprises.
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Sustainable Tech: 5 IT Giants Lowering Their Carbon Footprint
by Gina Narcisi
From slashing carbon emissions to renewable energy investments and responsible water usage, here’s what five IT leaders are doing right now to combat climate change.
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Cisco Partner Experience Platform Turns One: What Partners Need To Know
by Gina Narcisi
“We are on this journey to simplify. We want to continue to help our partners simplify the business activity and that they aren’t spending too much time on things that are redundant because we do know that time is money,” Cisco’s José van Dijk tells CRN on the one-year-old Cisco Partner Experience Platform (PXP).
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Cisco To Slash Greenhouse Gas Emissions With The Help Of Partners
by Gina Narcisi
The tech giant has publicly committed to reaching net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2040, which includes its own operations and supply chain. Cisco is also investing million to help partners lower their own carbon footprints.
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Masergy Protects Strategic Advisors Through ‘Full channel Integration’
by Gina Narcisi
‘We want our partners to be those strategic advisors and then kind of move on so they are able to offer our solutions to more and more customers out there,’ Masergy’s VP of global operations tells CRN.
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Cisco Webex Calling, With 4M Customers, Beats Out Zoom Phone
by Gina Narcisi
“We do about 8 billion calls a month … We have exceeded our own expectations,” Cisco’s Jeetu Patel tells CRN on Webex Calling’s unprecedented growth compared to the competition.
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Channel Champion Eric Martorano Is Leaving Nextiva
by Steven Burke
Nextiva’s chief revenue officer and longtime channel veteran, Eric Martorano, has left the company, sources tell CRN.
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Colocation Provider Cyxtera Audits Partners, Stops Some Payouts
by Gina Narcisi
On the cusp of going public, the data center colocation provider conducted audits of about 150 partner accounts and stopped payouts on some of the accounts, three Cyxtera partners tell CRN exclusively.
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Channel CCaaS Sales Driving ‘Record-Breaking’ Growth For Dialpad
by Gina Narcisi
The privately-held cloud communications specialist continues to smash its own records and brought in more than half of its revenue in Q2 2021 through channel partners, who are landing lucrative UCaaS and CCaaS deals.
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