Chuck Robbins

David West, vice president of enterprise networking sales at Cisco

Cisco goes subscription-based with routing

April 18, 2018 Robert Dutt Comments Off

Cisco announces it will make its routing portfolio available on a subscription basis, and on a promo basis, will make ISR hardware free for customers with a five-year subscription.

Editor’s Notebook: Random tidbits from the Cisco braintrust

November 2, 2017 Robert Dutt Comments Off

Short hits from Chuck Robbins et al on how Cisco thinks about change, SMB, new partner types, cloud agnosticism, acquisitions, and more.

Robbins to partners: Software equals differentiation

November 1, 2017 Robert Dutt Comments Off

Kicking off Cisco Partner Summit 2017, CEO Chuck Robbins tells partners building their own development capabilities is key to meeting customer needs.

Cisco CEO: We’ll partner in ways we hadn’t thought of before

October 18, 2017 Robert Dutt Comments Off

CEO Chuck Robbins outlines how the networking giant will innovate in partnership, offers kind assessment of Canada at Toronto Cisco Connect event.

Cisco seeks partner help on security, cloud strategy, software

June 30, 2017 Robert Dutt Comments Off

Cisco’s head of growth initiatives on where she sees opportunities to aid themselves (and Cisco) take their business in new directions.

Apple CEO Tim Cook and Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins on stage at Cisco Live 2017 in Las Vegas

Cisco, Apple press security message, eye expanded partnership

June 27, 2017 Robert Dutt Comments Off

Cisco and Apple say their joint network/mobile security story is so solid, mutual customers should get insurance discounts.

Mark Hill, vice president of digitization, Cisco

Cisco streamlines software buys with new Enterprise Agreement

June 7, 2017 Robert Dutt Comments Off

The new Cisco Enterprise Agreement brings together terms for all of Cisco’s software suites, provides options for customers to grow comfortably.

New Year’s Podcast Series: Mark Collins of Cisco Canada

January 12, 2017 Robert Dutt Comments Off

Cisco Canada channel chief Mark Collins on the transformation nature of the channel game in 2016, and what solution providers can expect from Cisco in 2017.