But even Cisco's partnerships could backfire, for Chambers' big ambitions could threaten some of these allies.
The 52-year-old Zhu's big ambitions for WebEx aren't farfetched, given some of the other adversity he has overcome.
But if you've got big ambitions, he allows, being a billionaire doesn't hurt.
Cotter has big ambitions but seems to have his feet on the ground.
It is small but with big ambitions, both to educate and to delight.
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But if you've got real money, and really big ambitions, the ocean or the air just won't cut it these days.
Posco too has big ambitions: expecting to produce 30m tonnes of steel this year, it dreams of 50m within ten years' time.
This is recognition that Rangers' big ambitions of competing with top-whack wages for some of Europe's best players requires them to play on a bigger field than Scotland.
BP, a British petroleum company, is building a butanol pilot plant to do this near Hull in the north of England and also has big ambitions for the fuel.
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This empty spot is, however, full of big ambitions.
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Prokhorov put on charm offensive when he bought the Nets, but the man has big ambitions and the United States isn't the only country where ambitious rich guys think they'd be awesome presidents.
His ambitions are big: He hopes to do 25 plants worldwide over the next five years.
"Like everything else in this G8, the ambitions are big, and I make no apology for that, " he said.
The hiring of Tim O'Brien from The New York Times was a watershed moment for the Huffington Post, serving as a statement of big-time journalistic ambitions and putting the media world on notice that what had started as a scrappy start-up was in the market for the most premium sort of talent.
Another Spark investment, Foursquare, also had a founder with outsized ambitions and a big vision.
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But if you have a general idea of what you are looking for and you keep your ambitions small, Big Data can be a powerful tool.
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There are also other players fighting for positions in this battle: Ericsson, Huawei, Cisco, Alcatel Lucent and Nokia Siemens Network have all intensified their ambitions, already being big suppliers in the ecosystem.
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Williams epitomises the big-spending Ospreys' enormous ambitions and the 31-year-old winger has sent a tub-thumping message to his fellow "galacticos" at the Liberty Stadium on the eve of the new Magners League season.
But Duerden said Lee's profile was not big enough for a club with grand ambitions.
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The big buzz is about Telia's ambitions to acquire Finland's ailing Sonera mobile group, Denmark's TDC or both.
But despite dismay over this internecine struggle, which to outsiders seemed fueled entirely by personal ambitions, most of the big donors, including the World Bank and Asian Development Bank, have continued to honor their commitments.
Movie actress Zooey Deschanel has expanded her ambitions recently, moving from the big screen to the indie-rock stage.
Most of Europe's big commercial banks have grandiose investment-banking ambitions.
In time, though, smaller companies may falter against big institutions with global brands and pan-European ambitions and capabilities.
Just as it frustrated Mr Tremonti's tax-cutting ambitions, it will also frustrate the big-spending aspirations of the National Alliance and the UDC.
Lisa Rickert of The Clinton Global Initiative International told the audience not to downgrade their goals and ambitions because they seem overwhelming or too big.
Mr Thiel's ambitions go far beyond scouting out the next big thing in technology.
Now, there are some who question the scale of our ambitions - who suggest that our system cannot tolerate too many big plans.
Signaling global ambitions, like Droga5 and Sid Lee, who appeal to big global clients, Anomaly sold a majority stake to mid-size communications holding company MDC, which will help finance its international expansion.
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