Harvard Business Review: John Chambers trumps Steve Jobs in market cap change
In a ranking of 1,999 CEOs from 1,205 companies, the Harvard Business Review has John Chambers ahead of Steve Jobs in market capitalization change by $2 billion: Market capitalization change:"We...
View ArticleJohn Chambers: Big is back... Cisco is the example
Earlier this month, Cisco CEO John Chambers pontificated to a gathering of financial analysts:"Big is back... Cisco is the example. The only criticism of Cisco now is a question of are we too...
View ArticleHow to absolutely guarantee QoS with network traffic
Below, network performance measuring vendor - Plixer International, gives the Cisco Subnet its How-To Tutorial on guaranteeing QOS with network traffic: "As timely transmission of data across the...
View ArticleTerry Eger was the Cisco executive who hired John Chambers
A year ago I blogged: The mystery of the missing video of Cisco co-founders Bosack and Lerner discussing their termination Fascinatingly this week (at least in my opinion), Kirk Lougheed - who is an...
View ArticleWill Cisco gear become search engine toll collectors?
Cisco has filed a patent application on a method that seeds search engine crawlers using intercepted network traffic. Cisco's method includes monitoring data packets exchanged in a computer network...
View ArticleCisco CCIE R&S count plummets -110
Last month, Dual CCIE #18532 R&S/Security - George Morton seemed flabbergasted to report that Cisco's CCIE R&S count had fallen by -48 for the first time since 2000. Amazingly, Morton is now...
View ArticleCyber attacks: Cisco appears to embrace China while Google fights China
This week Cisco appeared to embrace China. Jan. 11, 2010:"Given the size and growth of the Chinese economy and our significant commitments to our China business, we believe designating Greater China as...
View ArticleCisco appears to have missed the newest market transition: Don't be evil
Earlier this week Cisco announced it would further embrace China, then the very next day, heroically and gallantly in my opinion, Google announced it would fight cyber attacks that originated in China...
View ArticleRiverbed expected to maintain its WAN optimization market share
On Tuesday, Feb. 2, WAN optimization vendor - Riverbed Technology will release its 4th quarter and fiscal year 2009 financial results. In his research note today, my favorite Wall Street tea-leaf...
View ArticleAvian Securities reiterates its negative opinion about Juniper Networks
This Thursday, January 28, Juniper Networks will be webcasting its Q4 2009 earnings conference call. However today, Wall Street telecom diva Catharine Trebnick - Sr. Research Analyst at Avian...
View ArticlePineapple ratings get dished out to Cisco blogs that rock for 2010
This month, the Thinking problem management! blog dished out its famous pineapple ratings: Blogs and stuff that rock - Early 2010 edition According to the Thinking blog, its pineapple ratings are...
View ArticleBrocade BCNE most valuable cert on earth
Scrappy data center networking vendor - Brocade, appears to be offering networking gurus the most valuable cert on earth, the Brocade Certified Network Engineer (BCNE) at $146,250, at least according...
View ArticleTurmoil at Vyatta as Cisco prepares to announce its Q2FY10 earnings?
Earlier today, the bio and photo of Dave Roberts - the Vice President of Marketing for open source networking vendor - Vyatta, was still featured on its website (now it's gone). So what happened in the...
View ArticleCisco joins growing laundry list of entities paying Melissa Hathaway to be...
Tomorrow at 2:00 PM Pacific Time, Cisco will officially announce paying Melissa Hathaway (best known for authoring the Obama White House treatise - Cyberspace Policy Review), to be a senior adviser to...
View ArticleCisco's F2Q10 accounts receivable soar $1.34 billion year over year!
Source: Cisco Systems It's my personal opinion, that it's always a "Red Flag" when a company's accounts receivable increases year over year (YOY) at a higher dollar amount than the (YOY) increase in a...
View ArticleNew markets for Cisco not generating revenue, Chambers says
I've got to admit that I've been "kind of harsh" when blogging about Cisco CEO John Chambers lately. So thought I'd loosen up this time and blog about interesting statements made by Chambers. Racking...
View ArticleCisco IP phones praised in email to then Alaska Governor Sarah Palin and...
In collaboration with MSNBC.com, Crivella West Incorporated - a knowledge discovery company, digitized, analyzed and arranged this e-mail collection of former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, First Dude...
View Article61 CCIEs dropped out of Cisco's highly coveted cert program over the last 30...
According to Dual CCIE #18532 R&S/Security - George Morton: "Over the last 30 days we have seen CCIEs drop their highly coveted certifications at a much greater rate than net new CCIEs. "61 CCIEs...
View ArticleCisco CEO John Chambers sells 2.2 million shares of his Cisco stock 5 days...
During Cisco's F2Q10 earnings call last week, Cisco CEO John Chambers bragged:"We're back to record profits." The next day I blogged about Cisco's F2Q10 accounts receivable issue:"Year over year (YOY),...
View ArticleHow to setup Cisco's Flexible NetFlow (FNF) with LEGO Blocks
Network performance vendor - Plixer International believes that Cisco's Flexible NetFlow (FNF) is the future of NetFlow technology. Continuing its role as "NetFlow's technology evangelist," Plixer...
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