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- Cisco's Chambers breaks out economic downturn playbook; Eyes cost cuts as demand dries up
- Updated: Cisco Systems CEO John Chambers said Wednesday that the company has its economic downturn playbook out and aims to cut $1 billion in costs this fiscal year as demand among customers slows. Chambers said Cisco expects its fiscal second quarter sales to fall 5 percent to 10 percent. ...
- Tags: John Chambers, Cisco Systems Inc., Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-11-05
- Cisco's Chambers sees collaboration fueling productivity gains; Web 2.0 as new enterprise engine?
- Cisco CEO John Chambers said Tuesday that there will be an "instant replay" in technology-led productivity gains in the current downturn just like the U.S. saw in the mid-1990s. The difference this time around: In the mid-90s those productivity gains were based on big enterprise resource planning...
- Tags: John Chambers, Web, Collaboration, Cisco Systems Inc., Web 2.0, Internet, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-14
- The Green Enterprise: Cisco
- Networking giant Cisco Systems has a goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from its operations by 25 percent in the next four years--with the help of technologies it's created. Cisco also wants to help customers do the same. Correspondent Sumi Das looks at green innovations at Cisco, including: an...
- Tags: Greenhouse Gas, Cisco Systems Inc., Video-conferencing, Green, Cisco, Telepresence, Wi-Fi enabled bus, energy efficient datacenters, Sumi Das, John Chambers, The Green Enterprise
- Videos 2008-08-14
- Cisco Telepresence: Coming to a home near you (someday)
- Cisco Systems CEO John Chambers can barely keep quiet about the company's Telepresence video effort, a high-end video conferencing system, but on the company's fourth quarter conference call he was especially chatty. The big takeaways: Telepresence will be a $1 billion business within five years and it will be coming...
- Tags: John Chambers, Cisco TelePresence, Video, Cisco Systems Inc., Telepresence, Corporate Communications, Collaboration, Tv & Home Theater, Marketing, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-06
- Cisco's quarter clears hurdles; Outlook murky but close enough
- Updated: Cisco Systems on Tuesday delivered fiscal fourth quarter earnings of $2 billion, or 33 cents a share, on revenue of $10.4 billion, up 10 percent from a year ago. Excluding items, Cisco reported fourth quarter earnings of 40 cents a share, a penny ahead of estimates. ...
- Tags: John Chambers, Microsoft Outlook, Cisco Systems Inc., Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-05
- Cisco faces tricky fourth quarter report
- Cisco Systems reports its fourth quarter earnings Tuesday and an analyst says the quarter may be "the trickiest in memory." Wall Street is expecting fourth quarter earnings of 39 cents a share on revenue of $10.31 billion, according to Reuters' Thomson Financial. But observers will be combing...
- Tags: John Chambers, Analyst, Cisco Systems Inc., Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-05
- Cisco CEO John Chambers sees slack demand as 'relatively short term'; How does he know?
- Cisco CEO John Chambers put on his economic cap and noted that customers in the U.S. and Europe are putting the brakes on enterprise spending. But Chambers also said that any economic trauma is "relatively short term." How does he know? One of the more annoying aspects...
- Tags: John Chambers, Cisco Systems Inc., Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-02-07
- Cisco loses chief development officer and heir apparent Giancarlo
- Charles Giancarlo, Cisco's chief development officer and characterized as CEO John Chambers's heir apparent, joined Silver Lake, the Silicon Valley private equity firm. Chambers was not happy to lose Giancarlo, who said that he wasn't keen on waiting another three to five years for the current CEO...
- Tags: John Chambers, Cisco Systems Inc., Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-12-20
- Cisco CEO Chambers dashes U.S. IT spending hopes
- Cisco CEO Chambers dashes U.S. IT spending hopes"Chambers not really seasoned... "Now you have confirmed everyone's suspicions Mike...you are truly an IDIOT. John Chambers has been with Cisco since 1991 in senior management. I dare say he has just a little more experience in the enterprise IT markets than you...
- Tags: John Chambers, Cisco Systems Inc., CDO, Chamber
- Discussion threads 2007-11-08
- Cisco CEO Chambers dashes U.S. IT spending hopes
- Any question that the meltdown in the financial services sector will crimp technology spending can now be put to rest. The credit crunch has hit IT spending. Thank Cisco CEO John Chambers for the clarification. On a conference call following Cisco's first quarter earnings report, which was...
- Tags: U.S., John Chambers, Cisco Systems Inc., Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-11-08
- Technology innovation and policy: The power of "we"
- "The future is all about the power of "we" and how to collaborate with Web 2.0," said Cisco CEO John Chambers, reprising his gospel of broadband connnectedness. He was speaking at the Technology Innovation Summit held at the University of California, Berkeley. The event was hosted by Charlie...
- Tags: Innovation, China, John Chambers, IM, Government, Leadership, Vertical Industries, Strategy, Web 2.0, Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Internet, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-10-11
- Microsoft-Cisco: Let The Cold War Begin
- Today's joint press conference from Cisco CEO John Chambers and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer contained the usual blather about "cooperation," "interoperability,"and the "importance of working together" that accompanies these sorts of announcements. You can see/read the gory details here.)And I guess both parties should be commended for their Web 2.0...
- Tags: John Chambers, Cold Calling, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Corp., Cisco Systems Inc., Small And Medium Business, Dave Greenfield
- Blog posts 2007-08-20
- The Ballmer and Chambers show--no fireworks
- Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Cisco CEO John Chambers are holding court with interviewer Charlie Rose in New York City, discussing how they view the market transition, Google, coopetition and industry cooperation. The two industry titans both view the market as in an early stage transition, with lots of...
- Tags: John Chambers, Google Inc., Steve Ballmer, Industry, Microsoft Corp., Cisco Systems Inc., Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-08-20
- Telepresence gains traction; Is your network ready?
- Can your network really handle unified communications and video intensive video applications like telepresence?That question is one you should be asking yourself after Cisco's fourth quarter earnings conference call. Cisco reported net income of $1.9 billion, or 31 cents a share, on revenue of $9.4 billion for its fiscal fourth...
- Tags: John Chambers, Network, Video, Cisco Systems Inc., CEO, Video Application, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-08-08
- Cisco's Chambers: collaboration via mobile devices will drive faster business processes
- John Chambers, CEO of Cisco Systems, is now onstage, keynoting at NXTComm.Main takeaway: collaboration will speed up enterprise innovation initiatives that had been held back by "command and control" protocols.Chambers said that a collaboration/teamwork approach, enabled by ubiquitous broadband, acquisitions (such as webex, which was specifically cited by Chambers) and video on any device has...
- Tags: trends, Predictions and Observations, Mobile, General, Cisco
- Blog posts 2007-06-19
- Video: The gospel according to John Chambers
- I wrote about Cisco CEO John Chambers' Interop keynote yesterday in which he proclaimed that the future is Web 2.0, which he defined as collaboration. Now we have a video clip of Chambers evangelizing the crowd with his message. He talks about the need for businesses to increase...
- Tags: Cisco, Enterprise 2.0, General, IP Telephony, IT Management, Mobile, Social networking, VOIP, Web Technology, Wired & Wireless
- Blog posts 2007-05-23
- Cisco CEO John Chambers proclaims the future is Web 2.0
- Cisco CEO John Chambers ran on stage and then strolled throughout the crowd giving his vision of the networked future during his Network + Interop keynote presentation. As he walked and talked throughout the ballroom with the verbal passion and polish of a televangelist, Chambers proclaimed that Web 2.0, which...
- Tags: Web Technology, Social networking, Enterprise 2.0, Cisco
- Blog posts 2007-05-22
- Cisco CEO: Web 2.0 will drive the industry
- Cisco CEO John Chambers sees Web 2.0 as his companys rocket fuel for the next decade. On a conference call with analysts following the companys fiscal third quarter earnings it was telling how much Chambers dwelled on Web...
- Tags: Telecommunications, Hardware Infrastructure, General, Cisco
- Blog posts 2007-05-08
- Cisco's Chambers claims a three-year lead on Microsoft
- Cisco CEO John Chambers has thrown down the gauntlet. At Ciscos Partner Summit in Las Vegas this week, Chambers told the press corps in attendance that he believes Cisco has a three-year lead on Microsoft in the unified communications space. And, according to TechIQ Magazines "VAR Guy," who...
- Tags: VOIP, Telecommunications, Systems integrators, System builders, Speech, Resellers, OEMs, Network service providers, Corporate strategy, Channel
- Blog posts 2007-04-05
- Cisco Digital Signage Demonstration: CEO John Chambers Shows Off Digital Signage
- This webcast shows Cisco's new Digital Signage solution, a comprehensive offering delivering live and on-demand content in various formats from wired to wireless devices.
- Tags: John Chambers, Cisco Systems Inc.
- Webcasts 2007-01-15
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