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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

Business communications and meetings to become steady stream of Enterprise 2.0 content?

Ciscos $3.2 billion intended acquisition of WebEx has me thinking of what Charles Giancarlo, Ciscos chief development officer, calls "this next wave of business communications."What do you suppose he means?"The combination of Cisco and WebEx will deliver compelling solutions accelerating this next wave of business communications," said Giancarlo in a...

Tags: WebEx Communications Inc., What-if, knowledge, Ciscos

Blog posts 2007-03-15

Apple to Cisco: Suit is "silly"

Apple to Cisco: Suit is "silly"Ciscos' wrongObviously you don't understand US trademarks. If you don't use it, you loose it! Cisco's lame attempt to use it right before the announcement of Apple's iPhone, when they knew Apple desires/intentions, is just lame and the courts will recognize that. ...

Tags: Ciscos, Cisco Systems Inc., Apple iPhone, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-01-12

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Cisco goes shopping (again) scoops up Starent

HAHAHAHA wow... i am wowsers.They couldnt force their way into the WiMax area through standards, so they just bought someone who was already vested.As much as i dont like ciscos stance on this subject, i hope they succeed.

Tags: WiMAX, Cisco Systems Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-10-13

The good and bad of an IT flea market

Whether companies are scaling back, shutting down or just investing in a cloud infrastructure as a way of saving money in this economy, the result has been a flea market of used IT equipment. It's driving down costs but it's also forcing the IT sector to look a lot more...

Tags: Equipment, Information Technology, Management, Sales, Sales Force Management, Sales Strategy, Sam Diaz, Strategy

Blog posts 2008-12-05

Cisco unveils collaboration lineup; Enterprise 2.0 on the move?

Cisco unveils collaboration lineup; Enterprise 2.0 on the move?Where's the enterprise e-mail?To me there's an elephant in the Cisco room: what about e-mail? Cisco's PostPath cannot challenge Exchange 2007 and Cisco has no Outlook equivalent. More analysis here.

Tags: Groupware, Cisco Systems Inc., collaboration lineup, Enterprise 2.0, collaboration

Discussion threads 2008-09-24

Voting For A McCain

Voting For A McCainAh, milk from the the government sow..Obama's tax policies will hurt American business way more than any benefits his technology policies may provide. It's not government's role to create and invest in technology; its role is to get out of the way so that the Apples,...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Obamessiah, tax, Obama

Discussion threads 2008-07-16

Microsoft: Vista service pack coming in '08

Microsoft: Vista service pack coming in '08Microsoft: Vista service pack coming in '08This will just make Vista that much better. We will now see a mass migration of people switching to Vista since so many said they would wait for SP1. Now that it is arriving, time to...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Vista, service pack, Microsoft Corp., SP1

Discussion threads 2007-08-29

Retailers haven't learned from TJX - still running WEP

When I blogged earlier this week about TJXs failure to secure their wireless LAN and how it may end up costing TJX a billion dollars, I knew that it was merely the tip of the iceberg with so many retailers still running WEP encryption. As if WEP wasnt already...

Tags: Servers, Security, Networking, Mobile/Wireless, Hardware, Desktop

Blog posts 2007-05-10

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: Cisco, Cisco Systems Inc., General, Hardware Infrastructure, John Chambers, Larry Dignan, Telecommunications, Web, Web 2.0

Blog posts 2007-05-08

Miss Concur at your expense

Steve Singh, CEO of travel and expense management vendor Concur, spoke to a handful of attendees at an early-morning breakfast session at SaaScon today. It wasnt an ideal forum — he would have been better pleased with the opening keynote slot, which Salesforce.com president Jim Steele filled an hour later....

Tags: Business applications, Companies

Blog posts 2007-04-17

Salesforce.com's Koral buy changes the game

Thank you Salesforce.com. Your acquisition of AppExchange partner Koral will certainly liven up the keynote discussion Ill be moderating at next weeks SaaScon show in Santa Clara, CA, entitled Understanding SaaS Platforms and Ecosystems. Im sure panelist Rene Bonvanie, general manager of AppExchange and developer relations will face some...

Tags: Salesforce.com, Collaboration, Web 2.0, Ecosystems

Blog posts 2007-04-11

x86 Security

I, ah, blush to admit this - but when last weeks revelations about the Windows .ANI cursor hole appeared, I thought someone was pulling an April fools joke. Apparently not, but the mess led me to wonder just how something like this could happen. ...

Tags: General, Vistabulations, Security, Enterprise Policy

Blog posts 2007-04-10

News to know: Google in NYC; Flash vs. Java; Craigslist smut; Microsoft patches

Notable headlines: Donna Bogatin: Google challenges NYC software engineers. Ed Burnette: Is Flash better than Java? Jeremy Allison: Working for The Man? Advice to a young programmer. Ryan Stewart: Why Rich Internet Applications are important for the browser.New technology lets you read your voice mail.IBM adds low-wattage x86 servers.Engadget: Apples...

Tags: General

Blog posts 2007-04-06

Spoofing NAC

Remember Stiennons first law of network security? It is: Thou shalt not trust an end point to report its own state. This means that you cannot trust the IP address, MAC address, location, AV signature file version, and configuration information reported by a device. It can be spoofed....

Tags: Security blog, Security, Secure Network Fabric

Blog posts 2007-04-03

Comcast money helps open source scare Cisco

With Lucent absorbed into Alcatel, big phone and cable companies have fewer-and-fewer choices.Cisco is gaining market power over them. Or is it?This may be a head fake, but Comcast has invested in Vyatta, an open source maker of networking gear. It was just part of an $11 million round, so...

Tags: Strategy, mass market, Internet, Infrastructure, Hardware, Google, General, Enterprise Policy

Blog posts 2007-04-02

An open source RFID suite can let you age in place

For several years I have written, off-and-on, about a concept I call the World of Always On.This has nothing to do with Tony Perkins Always On Network. Instead, the idea is that you use wireless networks as an application platform, connecting sensors and other RFID chips with software to monitor...

Tags: wireless, Infrastructure, Hardware, General, Development, business models, Applications

Blog posts 2007-03-31

Cisco shows off 3G interface cards at CTIA

Cisco showed off its third generation CDMA and GSM HWIC based Wireless WAN interface cards at the CTIA. These cards plug in to the Cisco 1841, 2800, and 3800 ISR integrated services routers for backup connectivity or for primary connectivity in mobile or remote locations that lack wired Internet...

Tags: Wi-Fi, Cellular phones, INTERNET, WANs, Cisco Systems Inc., GSM HWIC, wireless, CTIA, 3G

Blog posts 2007-03-29

GPL tries to make legal language fit lofty goals

The newest draft of the GPL is out. (Art from GNUart.)Personally I like the preamble best. Its conversational. Its clear. It has high ideals.The question is whether the lawyer language in the rest of the document matches the goals of the preamble. Anyone versed in Constitutional Law will tell you...

Tags: GPL

Blog posts 2007-03-28

Wireless LAN security myths that won't die

Its been two years since I wrote "The six dumbest ways to secure a wireless LAN," and its probably been one of my more successful blog entries ever, with two flashes on Digg. Since that time, Ive written a free electronic book on enterprise wireless LAN security for anyone to...

Tags: LANs, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, security, wireless-LAN security, WLAN, wireless

Blog posts 2007-03-26