| The sudden and unexplained departure of Cisco data center marketing honcho, Douglas Gourlay Curiously according to a source, Douglas Gourlay - Vice President of Cisco Data Center Solutions was not seen presenting at Cisco Live last week. That's odd because Gourlay's office is located at Cisco's nearby headquarters in San Jose. And what made it even more perplexing was that Gourlay was featured just 7 days earlier in the Cisco Data Center Networks blog story: 7 at Cisco Live Which had Gourlay... Hotels give nod to Cisco telepresence Late last month, Starwood Hotels and Tata Communications announced plans to offer telepresence facilities while Marriott Hotels and AT&T announced a similar partnership plan. Both partnerships plan to use Cisco as the telepresence infrastructure supplier. Is Marc Andreessen betting $300M against Cisco's successful acquisition model? Cisco CEO John Chambers has never been shy when it comes to bragging about Cisco's ability to catch market transitions: "We build our culture at Cisco around catching market transitions." After reading an article today in The New York Times, it's my personal opinion that Marc Andreessen is betting $300 million that the next market transition will make Cisco's successful acquisitions model obsolete. How... July Giveaways Cisco Subnet is giving away 15 copies each of books on Enterprise Web 2.0 and Building a Greener Data Center; Microsoft Subnet is giving away training from New Horizons to one lucky reader and 15 copies of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services Unleashed. Entry forms can be found on the Cisco Subnet and Microsoft Subnet home pages. Deadline for entries July 31. Network World on Twitter? You bet we are |
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