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Ken Presti, analyst and president of Presti Research & Consulting, Inc., and author of Cisco Subnet's ChannelSurfing blog, dissects Cisco's past seven days.
- Cisco aims to recognize wireless experts with new CCIE Wireless designation
Cisco recently added CCIE Wireless to its Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert level certification program, the vendor's highest designation for engineers. Ken Presti talks to Jeanne Beliveau Dunn, general manager of Learning@Cisco, about why Cisco added wireless to its CCIE stable, the wireless knowledge that CCIE Wireless certification holders must demonstrates and the support that Cisco will provide certification candidates and holders. Plus: How does the introduction of CCIE Wireless affect employers? (4:07) - Agito CEO looks to the next steps for cell/Wi-Fi convergence
Enterprise fixed-mobile convergence start-up Agito Networks first came on the scene in October 2007 with a novel approach to pulling company cellular phone traffic onto the corporate Wi-Fi network when employees are on-premise. Last month, the company named Amit Chawla as president and CEO. Chawla, a former exec with Veraz Networks, says he aims to take the 2-year-old start-up commercial. He talks to Cisco Subnet blogger Brad Reese about the company's goals in enterprise mobility and FMC as well as Agito's technology partnership with Cisco and Avaya. (13:19) - Cisco aims to make it big in the small business world
Cisco recently announced a $100 million investment in product development, service and support for businesses with fewer than 100 employees. Ken Presti talks to Cisco Vice President Andrew Sage about the company's focus on the small business market, which Cisco says is worth $10 billion globally. Sage outlines the three tiers of small businesses that Cisco will be targeting, and how the company plans to serve these customers through partners. The big question for Cisco is how will it be able to move down market where "economy" is the watchword, while keeping Wall Street happy? (5:44) - Cisco lays out its cloud computing strategy
Does Cisco want to be a cloud-based service provider like Amazon and its EC2 service, or a cloud-infrastructure supplier? Guest host and Cisco Subnet blogger Mark Lewis tracks down Doug Gourlay, senior director of marketing and product management for Cisco's data center business to find out what are Cisco's ambitions in the cloud computing space, what's Cisco definition of cloud computing, and where Cisco's virtualization and data center products fit in the cloud. (18:01) - PCI data security standard targets the healthcare sector
The Payment Card Industry's Data Security Standard doesn't only affect retailers, healthcare providers are also required to comply. Guest host Jamey Heary is joined by Eddie Mize, chief security officer of a major healthcare provider in Denver, Colo., to discuss how the credit-card handling standard affects healthcare providers and what it takes for health centers to become compliant. (10:12) - SolarWinds wants to help save your bacon
Guest host Jimmy Ray Purser of Cisco Subnet's Networking Geek to Geek blog catches up with Josh Stephens, head geek for SolarWinds. Purser, who says SolarWinds' Engineer's Toolset has saved his bacon many times, gets the lowdown on SolarWinds' newest tools that engineers can use for free or for a limited trial basis, including its Orion Network Performance Monitor, NetFlow Configurator, and VM Monitor for VMware ESX Server. (14:24) - Cisco puts CCIE learning on the fast-track
Cisco Tuesday rolled out Cisco 360 Learning Program for CCIE - Routing and Switching, a six-month program that incorporates e-learning and hands-on practice labs to accelerate expert-level competency. Ken Presti talks to Cisco Director of Marketing Learning Fred Weiller about the program, why it was launched, how it works and who it's aimed at. (4:46) - Can you learn TCP/IP in 24 hours?
Ken Presti talks to Joe Casad who has just published the book Teach Yourself TCP/IP in 24 Hours, 4th Edition, published by Sams Publishing. Who is this book aimed at and why did Casad decide to write the book? Also, Cisco Subnet has launched a competition for readers to win a chance to review the book. Go here for entry details. (3:20) - Can Cisco makes its mark in the collaboration game?
Ken Presti talks to Alex Hadden-Boyd, director of marketing for Cisco's collaboration software group about the company's acquisition of presence provider Jabber, and how Jabber is underpinning Cisco's broader collaboration strategy, which was also unveiled this week. Will Cisco succeed in the collaboration space or will collaboration only cause Cisco to take its eye off its switches and routers business? (6:41) - Virtualization virtually everywhere
Cisco goes deeper into virtualization with a joint data center-focused project with VMWare that has manifested itself in the Cisco Nexus 1000V distributed virtual softswitch. (6:32)