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  IN PICTURES: Cisco APJC goes Hollywood
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  IN PICTURES: Cisco Global Partner Summit 2012
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  IN PICTURES: Cisco Partner-Led Conference party
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  IN PICTURES: Cisco Partner-Led Conference - the speakers

• Wall Street Beat: June starts slow but hope for tech in 2012 remains

  By Marc Ferranti | 01 June, 2012 19:09

  June is off to a rocky in the markets for technology companies as shares slump in the wake of troubling economic reports, though cooler heads appear to have confidence in the sector for the long term.

• Cisco: Australia broadband speeds ahead of global average by 2016

  By Spandas Lui | 30 May, 2012 16:02

  Australia’s broadband speeds may currently be below the global average but the tide will turn come 2016, according to Cisco.

• R.I.P. Cisco Cius - another tablet bites the dust

  By Tony Bradley | 25 May, 2012 18:58

  Cisco is pulling the plug on its Cius tablet. Despite the fact that the Cius never really went head to head with more consumer-centric tablets, the Cisco device is nevertheless the latest victim of the iPad's dominance.

• 10 years later, Alcatel-Lucent revisits Cisco and Juniper in the core

  By Jim Duffy | 23 May, 2012 03:33

  If at first you don’t succeed…

• Mobile devices to change workplace and telco attitudes: Cisco

  By Hafizah Osman | 20 May, 2012 22:15

  The growth of mobile devices is changing the workplace landscape and the way employees interact with media, Cisco A/NZ chief technology officer, Kevin Bloch, said.

• Ian Ross leaves Cisco for Logicalis

  By Nermin Bajric | 18 May, 2012 16:39

  Former Cisco head of businesss and market innovation, Ian Ross, has left the networking vendor to join IT solutions and managed services provider, Logicalis, as strategic solutions director.

• CIO challenge with BYOD: Don't fall down the rabbit hole

  By Tom Kaneshige | 18 May, 2012 07:56

  When Alice fell down the rabbit hole, she emerged into a Wonderland of oddities: trapped in a shrinking body with talking animals, mad tea parties, and a Queen of Hearts who shouts, "Off with her head."

• Ethernet switching gets specialized

  By Jim Duffy | 18 May, 2012 02:32

  Growth in the Ethernet switch market is now being driven by specialized devices for specific applications, rather than evenly across all customer deployments.

• 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 GLOBAL PARTNER SUMMIT 2012: Final wrap - In it to win it

  By Hafizah Osman | 28 May, 2012 08:37

  The message to Cisco’s partners was simple: In it to win it.

• 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.

• Special report: Emerging IEEE Ethernet standards could soothe data center headaches

  By Jim Duffy | 19 January, 2010 17:34

  Cisco, HP and others are waging an epic battle to gain control of the data center, but at the same time they are joining forces to push through new Ethernet standards that could greatly ease management of those increasingly virtualized IT nerve centers.