Robert Dutt

Cisco Canada caps big 2018 with Bell Canada Partner of the Year win

November 23, 2018 Robert Dutt Comments Off

Cisco Canada president Rola Dagher and channel chief Mark Collins on a big 2018 that saw Canada named global theater of the year, and a Canadian partner earn Americans Theater Partner of the Year for the first time.

MSP advice and whiskey insights with IT4Whiskey hosts [Podcast]

November 19, 2018 Robert Dutt Comments Off

Joe Ussia, Mayron Herrera, and Craig Hickman of the IT4Whiskey Podcast join the show to discuss why three veteran MSPs are taking to the Internet’s airwaves with a mix of battle-hardened IT business advice, and the appreciation of fine drinks.

Sachin Gupta, senior vice president of product management for enterprise networking at Cisco

Cisco looks to double intent-based networking market with new switch, adds wireless

November 14, 2018 Robert Dutt Comments Off

Cisco adds wireless to the Catalyst 9000 family for the first time, while a new SME- and branch-focused switch could end up running one in four ports worldwide, an executive says.

Susie Wee, vice president and CTO of DevNet at Cisco

Cisco: Partners with dev skills growing faster

November 13, 2018 Robert Dutt Comments Off

Partners who embrace software development are growing their bookings 10 per cent faster than the average, and are more completely representing the Cisco portfolio, says Cisco Devnet boss Susie Wee.

Sri Srinivasan, vice president and general manager of Webex Teams, Meetings and devices, showing off Webex Share

Cisco targets ad hoc meeting opportunities with new ‘huddle space’ collaboration offering

November 13, 2018 Robert Dutt Comments Off

Cisco’s collaboration team kicks off a busy Partner Summit with new collaboration dongle for any screen, a smaller room-based telepresence package, and the integration of cloud calling into Webex Teams.

Nirav Sheth, vice president of partner solutions, architectures and engineering at Cisco

Cisco looks to make SD-WAN ‘no-compromise’ with security integration

November 13, 2018 Robert Dutt Comments Off

By integrating much of its security stack into its ISR routers and introducing application-specific boosts for Office 365, Cisco is hoping to remove the need for customers to make tradeoffs between security and performance in the rapidly-growing SD-WAN market.