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Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins’ 10 Boldest Statements From Best Of Breed 2021
by Gina Narcisi
‘Software … allows us to move faster, innovate more quickly and allows the customer to actually get to the outcome faster. And if we get it right, it’s better for both our business models because [it provides] more predictability. But we have to get it right because it’s complicated to figure all that out,’ Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins tells an audience of solution providers.
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5 Hot UC, Collaboration Updates Unveiled At Enterprise Connect 2021
by Gina Narcisi
Here‘s how some of the leading UC, collaboration, and CCaaS providers are addressing the hybrid work trend with new solutions and capabilities.
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Gartner’s Magic Quadrant For WAN Edge Infrastructure 2021: HPE Joins Leader Circle Thanks To Silver Peak Buy
by Gina Narcisi
The 2021 report saw HPE join the Leader quadrant after buying SD-WAN specialist Silver Peak last year, while last year’s Leaders also held on to their top spots. Here are the vendors that made the cut in this year’s WAN edge report.
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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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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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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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5 Big Things To Know About Comcast’s Masergy Acquisition
by Gina Narcisi
In a blockbuster deal announced Wednesday, telecom giant Comcast acquired hybrid networking player Masergy. Here’s what partners need to know about how the deal.
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Lumen Technologies’ Dave Young On Channel Chief Role And The Carrier’s New Indirect Channel Structure
by Gina Narcisi
‘It takes more than Lumen and a customer to be successful here. It takes Lumen, another company, and customer to find shared success. I really think that was very eye opening to me as we began to talk about why we were putting the organization together,’ Dave Young, Lumen’s new SVP of strategic sales, tells CRN.
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Extreme Networks’ Ed Meyercord On Hitting $1B In Revenue And Battling Cisco For Cloud Networking Dominance
by Gina Narcisi
Extreme Networks is the number two cloud in networking today. That’s because they’re winning deals and ‘raising their batting average’ against the likes of Cisco, as evidenced by record-breaking cloud and revenue growth, according to the company’s CEO Ed Meyercord.
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RootMetrics 5G Report: AT&T Takes Top Honors
by Gina Narcisi
Here’s how the top wireless giants AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon fared when tested on their 5G availability, reliability, speeds, and everyday performance during the first half of 2021.
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Cisco’s Jeetu Patel On Hybrid Work And Creating Equal Opportunities For All Employees
by Gina Narcisi
‘We learned that it is unquestionable that people are able to work remotely and be extremely productive. It can’t be debated anymore because we’ve lived it. So, wouldn’t be unfortunate if, after what we’ve seen over the course of the past 15 months, we just went back to being the way that we were prior to COVID?’ Cisco executive vice president Jeetu Patel tells CRN regarding hybrid work.
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