SAN JOSE, CA, June 10, 2010 – The Cisco Foundation today announced it has awarded its 14th annual Silicon Valley Impact Grants to 67 nonprofits that are identified as innovative and effective in addressing K-8 education, basic healthcare and adult vocational needs in the Bay Area. Each nonprofit was awarded a $15,000 impact grant and [...]
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, and SAN JOSE, Calif., June 10, 2010 – Cisco announced today that EastLink is deploying Cisco® ASR 9000 Series Aggregation Services Routers as the broadband aggregation platform to deliver ultra-high-speed Internet access throughout its Atlantic Canada footprint. The use of video, collaboration tools and cloud-based services is driving increased adoption of EastLink’ [...]
BOGOTA, Colombia, June 9, 2010 – Aviatur, the leading travel agency in Colombia, has chosen Cisco® technologies to upgrade its communications platform, with the purpose of improving its productivity, generating more business opportunities and reducing costs. Aviatur implemented a Cisco Unified Communications solution and created a Cisco IP Contact Center. It also renewed its wide-area [...]
SAN JOSE, Calif. – June 9, 2010 – To help small businesses respond to the dramatic growth of electronic information and meet their evolving storage needs, Cisco today announced the launch of Cisco Smart Storage, a family of affordable, easy-to-use desktop network storage solutions with integrated business applications. Cisco Small Business NSS 300 Series Smart [...]
Cloud Computing Security: What Cisco and the Industry are Doing About It June 7, 2010 By James A. Martin Cisco is working with its partners in a variety of ways to help evolve cloud computing security and the cloud market overall. These initiatives include product development, collaboration with technology partners, and the company’s collaboration in [...]
SAN JOSE, Calif., June 8, 2010 – Cisco and Verizon Business will host a live webcast to unveil new findings from a commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Cisco and discuss new opportunities in managed and cloud services for service providers and enterprises. Key findings include: Global managed services growth will outpace [...]
LAS VEGAS and SAN JOSE, Calif., June 8, 2010 – At the InfoComm conference in Las Vegas today, Cisco announced it is fulfilling commitments to deliver immersive, multiscreen interoperability between Cisco and Tandberg TelePresence systems, and with other third-party systems, by integrating the Telepresence Interoperability Protocol (TIP) on Cisco’s newly acquired Tandberg TelePresence Server. … View [...]
HONG KONG – June 4, 2010 – Cisco and CargoSmart Limited, a leading software-as-a-service (SaaS) global shipping and logistics solutions provider, today announced that CargoSmart is powering its highly reliable and scalable core network infrastructure with the deployment of a Cisco® Catalyst® 6500 Series Switch. Today’s highly competitive economic environment and new international … View full [...]
MONTREAL, Quebec, June 3, 2010 – Cisco today announced that the International Economic Forum of the Americas/Conférence de Montréal is using Cisco® Digital Signs from June 7 to 10 to deliver high-definition dynamic content to more than 4,000 attending delegates. This initiative represents the first time the Conférence de Montréal has incorporated innovative video … View [...]
COLUMBIA, S.C., and SAN JOSE, Calif., June 3, 2010 – Cisco today announced that its Medical Data Exchange Solution (MDES) has been selected for deployment across 22 locations in South Carolina by Electronic Health Network, a leader in patient health education and wellness applications. Palmetto Primary Care Physicians will use Cisco® MDES as the platform [...]
SAN JOSE, Calif., June 2, 2010 – Leading global early-stage venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ) and Cisco today announced they will jointly hold the second annual global business plan competition for students aimed at fostering innovation and entrepreneurship. The competition will leverage Cisco TelePresenceTM, which enables collaboration through a live, face-to-face video network [...]
SAN JOSE, Calif. – June 2, 2010 – Today Cisco announced the results of the annual Cisco® Visual Networking Index (VNI) Forecast, 2009-2014, which projects that global Internet traffic will increase more than fourfold to 767 exabytes, or more than 3/4 of a Zettabyte, by 2014. This amount is 100 exabytes higher than the projected [...]