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  IN PICTURES: Cisco Live! 2013 partner party (64 photos)
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  IN PICTURES: Cisco Live! 2012 Cisco Partner Insight Awards
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  In Pictures: 13 markets you might not associate with Cisco

• BYOD in bloom, according to Cisco survey

  By Tom Kaneshige | 22 May, 2013 14:02

  A Cisco survey of mobile users reveals strong desire for BYOD programs and clear productivity gains. But hold off on those BYOD mandates because the love for corporate devices hasn't burned out yet.

• Cisco gets tough: Details ruggedized switches for harsh environments

  By Ellen Messmer | 07 May, 2013 14:29

  Cisco, which wants to expand its clout into the industrial networks used by power-generation utilities to support the electric grid, today announced an expansion of its "smart grid" portfolio with ruggedized and low-latency switches and other equipment intended for use in electric-power distribution systems.

• Arista heading off Cisco/Insieme at 100G SDNs?

  By Jim Duffy | 01 May, 2013 11:24

  Arista is raising the ante in high-density programmable core switching and perhaps setting the stage for things to come.

• White House program targets IT jobs for service members

  By Michael Cooney | 30 April, 2013 16:16

  The Obama administration this week teamed with Cisco, Microsoft, HP and others to roll out what it called an "IT Training and Certification Partnership" designed to get thousands of service members into the information technology world.

• HP refreshes data center core and aggregation with SDN switches

  By Jim Duffy | 30 April, 2013 14:08

  HP this week refreshed its switch line and fortified its SDN portfolio with three new systems and a router, along with management and provisioning software extensions.

• Mobile data and messaging exceeds voice revenues: Telsyte

  By Rimin Dutt | 23 April, 2013 12:24

  The value of mobile data and messaging revenues has exceeded voice call revenues for the first time in Australia, according to new research from technology analyst firm, Telsyte.

• IBM defends OpenDaylight from doubters

  By Jim Duffy | 19 April, 2013 14:00

  IBM is asking that people judge the OpenDaylight SDN project by its accomplishments, not by its roster.

• Open Networking Foundation director details SDN directions, OpenDaylight impact

  By Jim Duffy | 18 April, 2013 15:50

  The third annual Open Networking Summit, an SDN conference organized by the Open Networking Foundation, convened this week just after ONF members Cisco and IBM unveiled a separate effort to define an open source SDN framework. Unlike the user-driven ONF, OpenDaylight is a vendor-driven project to cultivate a system of SDN applications, but it also raised suspicion of the group's real intent: Is it designed to stall SDN's momentum and the threat, real or perceived, it could pose to incumbent hardware vendors? ONF Executive Director Dan Pitt discussed some of these topics with Network World Managing Editor Jim Duffy at the Santa Clara, Calif., conference.

• INSIDE STORY: Steering towards new business strategies

  By Julia Talevski | 27 July, 2011 14:19

  Distributor IPL Communications held a thought leadership event earlier this year specifically targeting 170 dealers that were a mix between telco and system integrators. This was underscored by the need to change. Julia Talevski sat down with IPL general manager, Paul Scanlan, and managing director, Stead Denton.

• Chambers part 3: Proprietary and the cloud

  By John Gallant | 15 March, 2010 07:35

  In the third and final part of an in-depth interview with John Gallant, Scot Finnie, and Editor-in-Chief Eric Knorr, Cisco’s John Chambers discusses the proprietary issue and cloud computing opportunities.

• Chambers: Networking's changing competitive landscape

  By John Gallant | 12 March, 2010 16:30

  In the second instalment of an in-depth interview, John Chambers talks with John Gallant, Scot Finnie, and Editor-in-Chief Eric Knorr about the changing competitive landscape, Cisco’s datacentre strategy and its relationship with HP.

• Chambers: How I'll make Cisco into IT's biggest player

  By John Gallant | 12 March, 2010 13:23

  By almost any measure, Cisco Systems is the biggest fish in the networking pond. Thanks to more than 130 acquisitions, a brisk pace of internal development and a much-discussed new organizational structure that the company is using to attack a slew of new markets, Cisco's reach extends from the consumer to the enterprise and deep into service provider networks. The company offers everything from personal video cameras to high-end telepresence systems, set-top video boxes to, lately, servers for the data center, in addition to more traditional network gear like routers and switches.

• Cisco's McCool sees growing data-center role

  By Stephen Lawson | 23 January, 2010 12:03

  While Cisco Systems branches out into consumer electronics, video, mobile data and other areas, one of its biggest areas of focus today is enterprise data centers. The dominant LAN provider thinks the transformation of data centers through virtualization calls for new kinds of connections and a broader role for network technology and intelligence. John McCool oversees this push as senior vice president and general manager of Cisco's Data Center, Switching and Services group. IDG News Service talked with McCool recently about the company's own role and its partnerships with other vendors in this arena.

• Setting a hectic pace

  By Trevor Clarke | 27 October, 2009 16:39

  It’s been a big year for Cisco in more ways than one. Across its global operations, the networking powerhouse was, like many of its peers, hit pretty hard by the economic downturn.

• Taking hold of emerging technology

  By Nadia Cameron | 05 August, 2009 15:38

  Westcon Group’s first dedicated chief technology officer, Bill Hurley, was initially appointed CIO 12 months ago and is now tasked with overseeing the distributor’s IT organisation while identifying future technologies and capabilities to invest in globally. He caught up with NADIA CAMERON during a recent visit to Sydney to discuss his background, the status of Westcon’s vendor line-up and his emerging IT agenda.

• Cisco vs. Juniper: How different are their SDN strategies?

  By Jim Duffy | 07 February, 2013 20:15

  On the surface, Cisco and Juniper's SDN strategies seem to have sharp contrasts if recent announcements are any indication.

• 13 events that defined Cisco's 2012

  By Jim Duffy | 12 December, 2012 17:58

  From software defined networking challenges to killing Cius and corporate restricting moves, it was a busy year for Cisco.

• SPECIAL REPORT: Hybrid transformation of the cloud

  By Jennifer O'Brien | 09 August, 2011 11:12

  For one of the world’s largest producers of zinc as well as a substantial producer of copper, lead, gold and silver, moving towards a hybrid cloud computing environment was a no-brainer.

• Carbon tax: bring it on

  By Matthew Sainsbury | 10 March, 2011 12:20

  The Gillard Government’s carbon tax has provoked varied and, in some cases, extreme reactions but the message from the channel is simple - bring it on.

• Vendors talk: Expert predictions

  By ARN Staff | 22 October, 2010 11:56

  Networking will be an exciting field in 2011. With that in mind, ARN asked six prominent vendors in the space for predictions and trends that can be expected to be big in the New Year.

• Cisco's Cius business tablet: A visual tour

  By Jared Newman | 08 July, 2010 16:07

  Cisco gets down to business with its Cius business tablet that will let you perform video conferencing and is optimized for apps such as WebEx Meeting Center.

• Networks go green and save money

  By Robert L. Mitchell | 22 April, 2010 07:37

  Servers get most of the glory when it comes to energy management, but networking gear is about to catch up.

• HP sets sights on Cisco in networking battle

  By Jeff Jedras | 28 April, 2010 03:49

  It was nearly an hour into the opening keynotes at the Americas Partner Summit on Monday until a Hewlett Packard executive finally used the C-word: Cisco. But the one-time networking partner was certainty front of mind though as HP re-affirmed its commitment to become the leader in every business segment it competes in including networking.