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Cisco extends its collaboration capabilities
Collaboration is one of Cisco’s five company priorities and represents what Cisco believes to be a total addressable market of $45 billion. The acquisition will provide more opportunity for Cisco partners to provide enhanced collaboration solutions to customers. Versly’s software will be integrated into a variety of Cisco’s collaboration offerings including Cisco Quad, Cisco Jabber and Cisco WebEx. For example, users will be able to receive automatic notifications within Cisco Quad when the content of a document has changed, escalate from simply reviewing a document to an instant messaging session through Cisco Jabber, or initiate a web conferencing session from a presentation through Cisco WebEx.
"With this… Continue reading: Cisco Announces Acquisition of Versly – Yahoo! Finance
A “dogfooding” snapshot from Cisco
A project at the headquarters of Cisco Systems in San Jose, California, for example, overthrows decades-old conventions about office space. Called Connected Workplace, it replaces individual cubicles with open clusters of wheeled desks that belong to groups, not individuals; personal belongings are largely confined to lockers.
There are no PCs at the desks, because the employees who use the space use mobile technologies, including the Cius tablet, which Cisco recently began selling to businesses. Rick Hutley, a Cisco vice president, chooses his desk according to which colleagues are present and what’s on the day’s agenda. Then he docks his Cius to a port on the desk that includes… Continue reading: Smashing the Cubicles – Technology Review
Major changes for Cisco
The combined number of jobs leaving Cisco’s payroll through retirement, transfer to Foxconn or outright firing is 11,500. That number amounts to about 14 percent of Cisco’s total headcount of 78,000 and change. If the plan that CEO John Chambers announced during the company’s most recent earnings conference call holds true to the plan and Cisco cuts $1 billion from its annual operating costs, then the average savings works out to about $87,000 per job.
Cisco Systems Announces Plan To Cut 6,500 – Arik Hesseldahl – News – AllThingsD
Continue reading: Cisco Systems Announces Plan To Cut 6,500 – Arik Hesseldahl – News – AllThingsD
Big changes ahead for Cisco
Cisco chief executive John Chambers is slashing jobs and exiting less profitable businesses as competitors such as Juniper Networks Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Co. take market share in Cisco’s main businesses with lower-priced, simpler products. Sales of Cisco’s switches and routers, which made up more than half of revenue last year, will continue to slip, said Brian Marshall, an analyst at Gleacher & Co.
Cisco may cut up to 10,000 jobs – The Boston Globe
Continue reading: Cisco may cut up to 10,000 jobs – The Boston Globe
Or, EMC could merge with Cisco…
Tucci, 63, who plans to step down as CEO of the storage provider after next year, has considered at least four candidates, Gelsinger, an EMC president, said in an interview last month. Those are Gelsinger, Goulden, Howard Elias, president of EMC’s services unit, and Paul Maritz, CEO of VMware Inc., majority owned by EMC. Maritz wants to stay at VMware, and Elias isn’t a serious contender, said the people, who asked for anonymity because the search is private.
EMC Search for New CEO Is Said to Pit Goulden Against Gelsinger – Businessweek
Continue reading: EMC Search for New CEO Is Said to Pit Goulden Against Gelsinger – Businessweek
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