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Original article by Mark Haranas via CRN The enterprise unified communications market is now matured and hitting the mainstream audience in 2015. “You can see that this market is now past the early stage and is now in the mainstream environment,” said analyst Bern Elliot, who co-wrote market research firm Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for UC, in an interview...

Cisco has been named as a leader in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Unified Communications. Gartner describes leaders within the magic quadrant for Unified Communications (UC) as having a “full UC offering and strong market presence, and demonstrate success in the field. They have a strong presence in related markets to expand their footprint in UC....

Article by by Doug Woodburn at CRN Orginally posted at: https://www.channelweb.co.uk/crn-uk/news/2421878/new-cisco-boss-plots-more-m-a-and-disposals More acquisitions of the mould of Meraki and SourceFire desirable as Cisco looks to get more focused, says Chuck Robbins Cisco’s new CEO said acquisitions and divestitures will be a key tenet of his strategy as the first quarterly results of his tenure beat expectations....

The Cisco 2015 Midyear Security Report, released this week, has highlighted the need for retrospective analysis to reduce Time to Detection (TTD). The report analyses threat intelligence and cyber security trends and has now revealed the critical need for organisations to reduce TTD in order to remediate against sophisticated attacks by highly motivated threat actors....

By Jason Deign @DeigninSpain Going anywhere nice this year? If technology is your thing then why not stop off at one of these locations while away on your next vacation. Centre for Computing History, Cambridge, United Kingdom While perhaps not as grand as its Mountain View counterpart (see below), the U.K. Centre for Computing History...

Cisco has confirmed that it is shutting down the Invicta flash storage business almost two years after it acquired storage vendor Whiptail for $415m (£267m). The storage product was pulled from the market last year due to scaling problems, but was reinserted shortly after, according to Network World. Cisco has suggested in an email that...

Programmability is the key to claiming software-defined networking’s (SDN) powerful benefits. Business moves faster today and infrastructures are more complex than ever. The number of applications supported by the average enterprise doubles every four years, according to research from analyst firm IDC. The emergence of SDN empowers organisations to accelerate time-to-market, lower administrative costs and...

Cisco are set to invest more than $1 billion into the UK technology industry over the next few years. The announcement came last week (9th July), when Cisco Chairman and CEO John Chambers, incoming Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins and Cisco UK and Ireland Chief Executive Phil Smith headed to No. 10 Downing Street to meet...

SCC, F5 and Cisco are co-hosting a dinner in Edinburgh this month during which they will explore the concept of the Internet of Everything (IoE) and how this impacts upon your business plans and questions of security. You can register now to attend this event, held at the renowned Castle Terrace restaurant in Edinburgh from 6.30pm...

Working towards a Greener Planet with Cisco Refresh & Cisco Technology Migration program. SCC can help you take advantage of Cisco Refresh (Cisco Certified Refurbished Equipment) which will provide peace of mind, genuine Cisco performance and quality, network security, no hidden costs, and low total cost of ownership. Highlights of the Cisco Refresh Program include:...

Cisco and SCC can provide a number of converged solutions that incorporate tested and documented designs from industry leading vendors. These fantastic converged solutions from Cisco include the Flexpod (NetApp), VersaStack (IBM) and VSPEX (EMC), which all offer a number of key benefits for your business. Take for instance Cisco and NetApp’s Flexpod solution, whichuk/cisco-and-netapps-flexpod-solution-available-from-scc/ enables you to...

SCC offers the VersaStack Solution that integrates Cisco Unified Computing Systems (UCS), Nexus switches and Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) with IBM Storwize storage components and a range of application workloads, enabling organisations to leverage a pre-validated, high-performance, cost-effective, and rapidly deployed solution. The VersaStack solution is supported by IBM and Cisco Services, which provide capabilities...