Ken Presti, analyst and president of Presti Research & Consulting, Inc., and author of Cisco Subnet's ChannelSurfing blog, dissects Cisco's past seven days.
Synch your iPod or MP3 player with the podcasts.
December 01, 2008
Cisco recently announced a $100 million investment in product development, service and support for businesses with fewer than 100 employees. Ken Presti talks to Cisco Vice President Andrew Sage about the company's focus on the small business market, which Cisco says is worth $10 billion globally. Sage outlines the three tiers of small businesses that Cisco will be targeting, and how the company plans to serve these customers through partners. The big question for Cisco is how will it be able to move down market where "economy" is the watchword, while keeping Wall Street happy? (5:44)
November 11, 2008
Does Cisco want to be a cloud-based service provider like Amazon and its EC2 service, or a cloud-infrastructure supplier? Guest host and Cisco Subnet blogger Mark Lewis tracks down Doug Gourlay, senior director of marketing and product management for Cisco's data center business to find out what are Cisco's ambitions in the cloud computing space, what's Cisco definition of cloud computing, and where Cisco's virtualization and data center products fit in the cloud. (18:01)
November 05, 2008
The Payment Card Industry's Data Security Standard doesn't only affect retailers, healthcare providers are also required to comply. Guest host Jamey Heary is joined by Eddie Mize, chief security officer of a major healthcare provider in Denver, Colo., to discuss how the credit-card handling standard affects healthcare providers and what it takes for health centers to become compliant. (10:12)
October 29, 2008
Guest host Jimmy Ray Purser of Cisco Subnet's Networking Geek to Geek blog catches up with Josh Stephens, head geek for SolarWinds. Purser, who says SolarWinds' Engineer's Toolset has saved his bacon many times, gets the lowdown on SolarWinds' newest tools that engineers can use for free or for a limited trial basis, including its Orion Network Performance Monitor, NetFlow Configurator, and VM Monitor for VMware ESX Server. (14:24)
October 14, 2008
Cisco Tuesday rolled out Cisco 360 Learning Program for CCIE - Routing and Switching, a six-month program that incorporates e-learning and hands-on practice labs to accelerate expert-level competency. Ken Presti talks to Cisco Director of Marketing Learning Fred Weiller about the program, why it was launched, how it works and who it's aimed at. (4:46)
October 06, 2008
Ken Presti talks to Joe Casad who has just published the book Teach Yourself TCP/IP in 24 Hours, 4th Edition, published by Sams Publishing. Who is this book aimed at and why did Casad decide to write the book? Also, Cisco Subnet has launched a competition for readers to win a chance to review the book. Go here for entry details. (3:20)
September 26, 2008
Ken Presti talks to Alex Hadden-Boyd, director of marketing for Cisco's collaboration software group about the company's acquisition of presence provider Jabber, and how Jabber is underpinning Cisco's broader collaboration strategy, which was also unveiled this week. Will Cisco succeed in the collaboration space or will collaboration only cause Cisco to take its eye off its switches and routers business? (6:41)
September 19, 2008
Cisco goes deeper into virtualization with a joint data center-focused project with VMWare that has manifested itself in the Cisco Nexus 1000V distributed virtual softswitch. (6:32)
|
Does Verizon's Voyager stack up to the iPhone? |
5 IT skills that won't boost your salary 
[1,407]
Women 4 times more likely than men to cough up personal info [589]
Japan's 10 funniest tech-related commercials [Videos] [407]
Throwing away a promo CD is "unauthorized distribution"? [1,265]
Adults too quick to dismiss educational video games [682]
Attack of the iPhone clones [Slideshow] [578]
10 things IT needs to know about AJAX [1,258]
This Year's 25 Geekiest 25th Anniversaries [Slideshow] [409]
