Cisco News & Articles

Recently there’s been a lot of buzz about how technology has limited how we share, discuss and engage with others. In short, we don’t have enough real conversations. And when we do it, we’re not fully engaged. Whether you agree or not, the enterprise still values in-person communication. A new survey conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit and sponsored by Cisco shows that in-person collaboration has many benefits that may promote innovation and customer relationships.

Happy Telework Week! How will you be spending your time? Working remotely from home or on the road, taking Skype calls in your bunny slippers? The week, brought to you by Telework Exchange and Cisco for the second time, aims to encourage Federal, state, and local agencies, private sector organizations and individuals to pledge to telework.

Today at its Collaboration Summit 2011 in Miami, Cisco unveils updates to its unified communications platform Jabber and its web conferencing platform Webex that will enhance enterprise collaboration and let people work anytime, and from anywhere.

A busy week in the document management space. The big event this week was the announcement by Cisco that it will buy Versly, while QuickOffice is still upgrading TouchPad capabilities. Adobe offers PDF functionality for iPad, and Work upgraded its Office 365 offering. DocSTAR and Kyocera integrated for better cloud document management.

The folks at Cisco want to make working together a little easier. The company announced that it is acquiring two-year old startup Versly, which provides a tool that allows users to collaborate inside of Microsoft Office.

 Skype and the like saw a bit trouble this week with the announcement of a new Web-conferencing package for SMBs. WebEx 8 offers online meetings for US$ 19 per month, enabling Cisco (news, site) to better compete for business among smaller companies.

Cisco (news, site) announces today some enhancements to its enterprise collaboration solution, Cisco Quad, along with its availability as a hosted managed service.

This week, in what may be a response to Microsoft’s recent moves to integrate its products, Google Apps and NetSuite team up and the result is definitely good for SMB. Xerox and Cisco have also partnered, CA offers data protection on Azure, while TrendMicro offers backup for very small businesses.

EMC World is in full swing this week and the news that EMC and Cisco are joining forces to create a new enterprise collaboration platform that combines the world of collaboration, content management and compliance may be music to some ears.

On the last morning of info360, Mike Gotta, Sr. Technology Solutions Manager at Cisco, spoke about The Social Graph: People, Information and Communities. Because the rise of social technologies and tools has made us look at the world through the lens of people and the relationship to one another, it doesn’t make content irrelevant. In fact, it creates a challenge for integrating content into the community.

Things happen quickly in the industry, including changes in employment. Here's a quick and dirty list of the biggest moves that hit our radar over the last couple of weeks: 

Cisco (news, site), a company that aims to provide the next big platform in enterprise collaboration, announced the availability of new Cisco Eos features that deliver advanced video experiences, better mobile functionality and content management capabilities.

Salesforce.com (news, site) makes another acquisition in the social space as it aims to widen its collaboration product base.

The week in the mobile enterprise, mobile traffic soars, while the policies that govern mobile initiatives are questioned.

The infamous Gartner (news, site) released this year's Magic Quadrant for Social Software in the Workplace, and the results were all kinds of surprising. Meanwhile, the Oracle (news, site) drama continues after 33 OpenOffice developers were asked to leave.