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Partners in Business and in Driving Social Change

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Partners in Business and in Driving Social Change

Kelly Carter, Leader, Virtual Sales Canada at Cisco Meraki Jill Crowley, Senior Manager of Cloud Architecture at Softchoice     This post was co-authored by Jill Crowley, Senior Manager of Cloud Architecture at Softchoice, and Kelly Carter, Cisco Canada’s Meraki Virtual Sales Leader.           A Longstanding Partnership Cisco Canada and Softchoice have a history of partnership that spans many years. Beyond business, our relationship is rooted in a shared mission to…

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Marketing Velocity (MV) Reimagined Welcomes Learning: The One MV Story

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Marketing Velocity (MV) Reimagined Welcomes Learning: The One MV Story

Align, Align, Align – If you’re a Cisco partner marketer, this mantra is likely familiar. “We need to align sales and marketing to generate more reliable leads.” “We need to align with our leader’s priorities for a unified approach.” “We need to align with Cisco marketing strategy to best engage our customers.” Sound familiar? At a fundamental level, we all understand why alignment is crucial. It ensures consistent communication with customers, builds credibility, streamlines marketing…

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Evolving Together: The Next Chapter in Our Partner Journey

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Evolving Together: The Next Chapter in Our Partner Journey

When I look at Cisco’s history, I’m incredibly proud of what we’ve built – a world-class hardware portfolio that’s been the foundation of our shared success. Over the last five years, our business has evolved significantly. As our recent earnings show, subscription revenue now represents 56% of Cisco’s total revenue. Our business model has transformed from primarily transactional to increasingly subscription-based, with software revenue growing 33% and software subscription revenue up 39%. This fundamental shift…

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Enhancing Day 2 Operations with Cisco Compute and Red Hat Ansible Automation

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Enhancing Day 2 Operations with Cisco Compute and Red Hat Ansible Automation

Cisco Live Amsterdam concluded with significant announcements from Cisco, focusing on AI, Application Modernization, and Security. Whether you joined us in person or virtually, I hope you found the event insightful. As part of the Cisco Live program, I had the pleasure of unveiling new integrated solutions developed in collaboration with Red Hat, leveraging their OpenShift Virtualization and Ansible Automation Platform. The partnership between Cisco and Red Hat has been longstanding. Last year we announced…

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Embracing the AI Era: Cisco Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA

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Embracing the AI Era: Cisco Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA

In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, the ability to harness the power of artificial intelligence (AI) is essential. At Cisco, we are empowering organizations worldwide to seamlessly integrate AI into their business operations, ensuring they remain at the forefront of innovation and security.  Our collaboration with NVIDIA will mark a significant milestone in this journey, introducing a groundbreaking new AI infrastructure that puts security and flexibility at its core. A Strategic Leap Forward  As we announced…

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Navigating the Future of Connectivity: Services Opportunities around Cisco’s Wi-Fi 7

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Navigating the Future of Connectivity: Services Opportunities around Cisco’s Wi-Fi 7

Wi-Fi 7 offers a wealth of new services opportunities that go beyond the routine wireless upgrade. Recently, I assisted a local school, where my children attend, as they embarked on a wireless network refresh initiative. As the first school in the Catholic Diocese to upgrade, they sought to replace their outdated patchwork of Wi-Fi 4 and Wi-Fi 5 devices from various manufacturers; this inconsistency in design, performance, and management, is particularly common in various sectors…

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Building Your AI Services Practice: Transforming Collaboration in the Age of Intelligence

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Building Your AI Services Practice: Transforming Collaboration in the Age of Intelligence

The AI Revolution: Transforming Business Communication We stand at the threshold of what I believe is one of the most significant transformations in the history of business communications. Artificial intelligence isn’t merely enhancing our collaboration tools – it’s fundamentally reimagining how we connect, communicate, and create value together. For our Cisco Collaboration partners, this moment represents both an extraordinary opportunity and a strategic imperative. AI isn’t just transforming collaboration—it’s redefining it. The real question is:…

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Unleashing the Power of AI: Introducing Cisco's AI-Ready Data Center MVC Campaign

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Unleashing the Power of AI: Introducing Cisco's AI-Ready Data Center MVC Campaign

AI and emerging innovation use cases are ushering a technology revolution that is transforming how businesses operate at breathtaking pace. With Gen AI projected to be a $159 billion market for the channel ecosystem by 2028 according to Canalys, the opportunity for partners to grow and innovate has never been greater. As organizations race to modernize their data centers in support of increasing AI workload demands, Cisco and our partners are well equipped to capture…

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Ripple Effect of Kindness: Building Bonds, Boosting Business Through Giving

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Ripple Effect of Kindness: Building Bonds, Boosting Business Through Giving

Katie Ferguson, Cisco Canada’s SMB Leader This post was authored by Katie Ferguson, leader of Cisco Canada’s Small and Medium-Sized Business (SMB) organization. She is responsible for—and passionate about—helping Canadian SMB organizations unlock digital excellence to power their purpose. Maya Angelou once said, “I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.” The Canadian SMB team and some of our partners recently experienced this quote first-hand. In June 2024,…

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Maximizing Impact with the Cisco 360 Partner Program Value Index

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Maximizing Impact with the Cisco 360 Partner Program Value Index

In today’s fast-evolving technology landscape, differentiation is key. That’s why Cisco is redefining how we measure and ultimately reward your impact with the new Partner Value Index. This groundbreaking approach, part of the new Cisco 360 Partner Program, establishes a new standard for recognizing the unique ways you drive value for customers.  A fresh perspective on value The Partner Value Index was created to highlight what makes your business unique. As Cisco’s strategy for working…

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