Cisco News & Articles

Packt Publishing (news, site) has released the names of the next set of winners in its annual Open Source Awards. This round includes the winner of the Open Source E-Commerce Applications category and the Open Source Graphics Software category. Packt will announce winners for the remaining three categories later this week.

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. 

Cisco (news, site) is branching out in the Social CRM direction with SocialMiner 8.5, a revamped social media monitoring tool that listens to and delivers communications from across the Web (Twitter, Facebook, etc.) directly to customer-service agents.

Put the fun and games aside. This week we looked at social media in the enterprise as more of a necessity than a trend. 

Skype (news, site) didn't have the best 2009, but recent moves suggest the VoIP platform is aiming to make an impressive comeback. In addition to filing for an IPO, both a notable partnership and a new CEO are paving the way for success. 

Lots of potential acquisitions are in the news this morning. First we heard rumors of Six Apart making deals in Japan, and now word on the street is that Cisco (news, site) is prepping to purchase Skype for a pretty penny.

Let's talk about CaaS. As the solutions we utilize grow more social, the concept of Collaboration-as-a-Service gains traction. Cisco (news, site) most recently highlighted this with the release of its hosted collaboration platform, and Enterprise two-dot-oh experts are weighing in. 

Cisco (news, site) has introduced a new hosted collaboration platform for partners who need to support the many collaboration needs of their customers.

Maybe it’s a rule that in order to market a tablet device, the name must be unimaginative or elusive. First it was the Apple iPad, then it was the Sony Dash and the Dell Streak. Now, meet the Cisco Cius.

The focus of this year's Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Boston can be summed up in one word: Collaboration. The event was teeming with solutions of similar structure, each with an aim to enhance the same concept. And while that might've been a let down for attendees hoping to see some variation, it certainly serves as an undeniable indicator of the future of business. Here are some of the highlights:

This week's Enterprise 2.0 conference is bubbling over with interesting tidbits, and not just from well-known players. Cisco Systems revealed a slew of new products, including a collaboration platform poised to stiffen the competition with giants like Microsoft and Google. Meanwhile, our fine-feathered, 140 character friend acquired some analytics tools for commercial partners.  

Cisco (news, site) has officially unveiled its enterprise-level collaboration platform, Cisco Quad. Named after a college quad -- a place of learning -- Cisco's mixture of key business apps and the trappings of social networking goes up against the likes of Microsoft and Google with communal bravado.  

Coveo (news, site) is back with a second serving of Expresso, their free enterprise-class search solution.

Poor Microsoft (news, site) suffered all kinds of blows this week. First people were dissatisfied with the release of their Office Web Apps. Then SharePoint's shortcomings were thrown into the spotlight.