A Closer Look at the Cisco-Microsoft Accord
To look at last week’s love-fest between Cisco Systems Inc. and Microsoft Corp., you wouldn’t think that both vendors are nominal competitors in the red-hot network access control (NAC) market segment.
- Cisco Joins 802.11n FrayCisco Systems Inc. threw its hat into the 802.11n ring, announcing a new Unified Wireless Network offering that includes an industry first: the Aironet 1250 Series Access Point, which is...
- Foundry Takes Aim at Cisco With New BigIron DeliverableEven as Cisco Systems Inc. sits atop the enterprise switching heap, competitors continue to nip at its heels....
- Analysis: A Closer Look at Cisco’s Enterprise Switching DominanceBy any standard, Cisco Systems Inc. dominates the enterprise switching market. One upshot of Cisco's dominance, market watchers say, is that it has unparalleled freedom to compete in other segments,...
- NUMBERS DON’T LIE, BUT…Many of you wrote to take issue with my recent discussion of vendor numbers: Cisco topped 1 million certifications granted since the beginning of its program, Microsoft is over 2...
- Unified Communications Sells, But Who’s Buying?Unified communications (UC) and unified messaging (UM) might be all the rage -- at least as far as Cisco Systems Inc. and other hardware vendors are concerned -- but customers...