Cisco

New Year’s Series: Video with Dave De Abreu, Cisco Canada

January 27, 2015 Robert Dutt Comments Off

We sit down for a video interview with Cisco Canada’s channel chief to discuss the year that was 2014, and preview what to expect from Cisco Canada in 2015.

Security

Cisco’s Security Manifesto for the real world

January 22, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off

Cisco believes security teams need to rethink strategy, to ensure that their principles assist users in resisting attacks – since the reverse is all too common now.

Cisco Canada showing strong momentum in security

January 21, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off

Cisco has followed up momentum from the acquisition of Sourcefire, adding new capabilities and services and greatly strengthening Cisco Canada’s security team.

Pure Storage enters converged infrastructure market with all-flash FlashStack solutions

December 11, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off

Two solutions were announced, both of which use Cisco and VMware as partners, but more converged all-flash solutions are coming from Pure, and these will use additional vendor partners as well.

Cisco targets SMB, lower midmarket for collaboration with Cisco Business Edition 6000S

November 18, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off

The BE6000S supports four virtual machines, is targeted at 25-150 user organizations, and costs 22 per cent less than the BE6000, which has the same software, at the lowest configuration.

Cisco announces Project Squared free SaaS collaboration app

November 17, 2014 Mark Cox 1

Project Squared, a SaaS business collaboration app for chat, audio, video, multi-party meetings and content sharing, will initially be a free download, but Cisco expects to monetize it as they add more features, and they see it as a strong channel opportunity.