Cisco business

How Cisco decides which market sectors to pursue

Cisco Subnet — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 19:27:01 -0400

Cisco CEO John Chambers is no longer the command-and-control leader he once was as it is Cisco's many boards and councils that decide where the company channels its development dollars, according to a wide-ranging

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Cisco partners must grow Cisco reseller business by $20B

Cisco Subnet — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 18:10:08 -0400

Cisco partners need to contribute $20 billion in new business over the coming years to help the network giant meet CEO John Chambers' aggressive long term growth plan of 12% to 17% the next three to five years, according to a story in ChannelWeb. ChannelWeb cites from a keynote address given by Cisco channel chief Keith Goodwin at the company's Partner Summit last week: "There are two ways to we could do that. We could recruit thousands of new partners, but that's not our strategy.

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One financial analyst who's not worried about Cisco's business outlook

Cisco Subnet — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 18:37:06 -0400

UBS Warburg may have downgraded Cisco stock Thursday citing slowing orders and softness in U.S. and European enterprise markets, but on the same day, an analyst at Friedman, Billings, Ramsey gave Cisco an "outperform" coverage. According to an Associated Press report, FBR analyst Brian Coyne said demand for Cisco networking gear would continue at a pace faster that its competitors, and that its large size would allow it to move aggressively into new markets.

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Is Cisco preparing for layoffs?

Cisco Subnet — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 18:33:37 -0500

Uh-oh. Om Malik, blogging in GigaOm says his sources are telling him that Cisco is looking to cut staffing levels in underperforming departments. Malik writes: "The cuts are going to be big enough to raise an eyebrow." He reckons that Frank Calderoni, who starts in his new job as Cisco CFO on Friday, will have to preside over the layoffs. It's been a while since Cisco made largescale cuts in its staffing numbers ...

Malik checked in with Cisco PR folks for a response, which was:

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Cisco moves further into Africa

Cisco Subnet — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 18:40:57 -0500

Cisco is expanding in Africa and today opened its fifth sub-Saharan Africa office in Kenya, reports AfricAsia.com. Cisco said the offices will be one of the key strategic hubs for the sub-Saharan African market, and will serve as a training and competency center, as well as a reference site. Similar offices operate in Nigeria, Cameroon, Dakar, and South Africa.

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Top 6 Cisco acquisitions of 2007; what it should buy in 2008

Cisco Subnet — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 19:05:58 -0500

Cisco made 11 acquisitions this year culminating in 126 purchases since Cisco's birth. It made three more acquisitions than it did last year, when it spent a measly $256 million buying ho-hum technologies. This year was different, not only in the sheer dollar size of some acquisitions, but also because of the breadth of technologies it acquired.

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Why Warrior?

Cisco Subnet — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 17:02:20 -0500

What possessed Cisco to hire Padmasree Warrior, former CTO at struggling Motorola as its CTO? That's the question Cisco Subnet blogger Brad Reese is asking (and readers responding to) in a blog post. Motorola is hardly a shining example of a company that is doing wonders at the moment, as it is booting its CEO amid falling sales and profit. Is it any wonder that Warrior resigned on Monday? So why would Cisco be interested in Warrior? Perhaps because she boasts leadership experience in the semiconductor and energy systems and has also worked in software, services and applications. Also, she's from India, where Cisco is investing heavily.

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What does Cisco's globalization efforts mean to Cisco U.S.?

Cisco Subnet — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 18:53:28 -0500

Cisco's ambitions in the emerging markets is likely to change how the company is governed with strategic decisions coming, not out of Silicon Valley, but perhaps out of Bangalore or China.

Wim Elfrink, Cisco chief globalization officer, is reported to have said on the sidelines of the INSEAD Leadership Summit in Asia that the 'classic way' of exporting and localizing products and services no longer works and instead such services will be developed locally and perhaps exported back to the mature world.

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Cisco plans recruitment drive in Saudi Arabia

Cisco Subnet — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 18:26:21 -0500

Continuing its bid to increase revenue from its emerging markets business, Cisco announced plans to invest $268 million into Saudi Arabia over the next five years and has set up an initiative to develop and recruit local network consulting engineers.

According to its news release, the company said Jordan would act as a hub and cater to trainees across the Gulf Cooperation Council the Levant and North Africa.

The initiative to develop NCEs is part of a bid in emerging countries to employ and train 96 recruits in fiscal year 2008 and 200 by fiscal year 2009, said Cisco.

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Cisco shareholders vote against ensuring human rights in repressive nations

Cisco Subnet — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 18:35:29 -0500

Cisco shareholders voted against a proposal requesting the networking giant refrain from selling products to governments that censor Web content from their citizens, according to a story in InformationWeek.

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