Microsoft and Cisco have been working for 20 months now on a project entitled Cisco Networking Services for Active Directory.
Phone sales also tend to boost sales of other Cisco products and services.
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These solutions, as well as services from Cisco and our partners, are designed to help promote business growth, innovation, and productivity.
It also raises a tantalizing question: How far into the services business does Cisco want to be?
Using Verizon's wireless network to transmit data, the information is fed to the cloud through Cisco's 819 Integrated Services Router.
Wim Elfrink, a Dutchman living in India in charge of Cisco's booming global services business, talks about using the Internet to collapse the cost of U.S. medicine by employing Malaysian doctors or making China's urban electrical grid more efficient with an intelligent Cisco data network controlling the power.
Indeed, and I do see a lot of savings and efficiency benefits in consolidating services on the Cisco comm servers allowing better subhost store-and-forward switch logic leveraging business process management minimizing installations and connections to myriads of web services and redundancies which often cause inconsistencies and even data integrity issues.
Look out also for more companies in the tech arena, from Oracle to Cisco and others, to start providing services direct to the consumer.
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Our customers already understand that Cisco has the architectures, solutions and services to best help them deliver the business results they need and we are honored to work with them and serve them each and every day.
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Since adding documents to video calls promises greater productivity for workers, other video conferencing providers like Cisco and Polycom will need to offer similar services in the future, said Riggs.
's Novell Directory Services (NDS) for policy networking, Cisco is going with Microsoft Corp.
Through virtual desktop integration, Cisco Cius offers flexible computing options with cloud-based services, providing dramatically lower capital costs and cost-per-user for desktop maintenance.
That set the stage for Cisco to sell the department on improving that network with services such as video conferencing and voice-over-Internet Protocol.
The list, which includes technology giants HP, Cisco, Intel, and IBM, also includes financial services firms (20%) such as Bank of America and JP Morgan Chase.
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Like Cisco, Stevens expects 75% of that revenue from hardware and 25% from services.
Quite a small contribution, as Cisco generates a substantial majority of its profit by selling routers, switches and network services.
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As he nears retirement, Chambers, 63, is trying to establish Cisco as the go-to place for a wide range of technology products and services that help power the Internet, run data centers, deliver video and connect wireless devices.
Eager to innovate, it began to study companies like Dell, IBM, Cisco, and Best Buy, that had used social media to launch new products and services.
"Linksys is one of the leading home networking providers and has created a market-leading suite of products and services to meet customer needs, " said Hilton Romanski, VP Corporate Business Development, Cisco.
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Cisco has also announced the acquisition of Meraki, a smaller networking firm that provides multiple cloud-based services to small and mid-sized companies.
Cisco, he says, can help carriers reduce their spending on operating expenses while helping them create new services so they can monetize their investments in technology.
Cisco also says the new processor is fully programmable, allowing ISPs and corporations to add other edge computing services to the ASR-1000 without adding new hardware, and in some instances, allowing customers to get rid of hardware and cut costs.
Such is the current reality in high tech: IBM, Cisco and HP have become giants almost unto themselves, promising big companies a full range of hardware, software and services to run the biggest corporate computing operations.
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