CEOs today are facing key business challenges as they look for ways to trim spending and improve the bottom line of their organizations, as economies around the world slow down. To address these challenges, companies are looking at rich communication, information and collaboration services that are now being delivered by virtualized data centers.
This strategy allows customers to easily identify, eliminate, and re-provision assets using software instead of what was traditionally done through hardware. Virtualization in essence brings together siloed pools of storage, network, operating systems and applications into unified, shared resource pools that are then linked with an intelligent unified fabric. Users across the entire organization are using this to dynamically respond to today’s rapidly changing business requirements.
Enabling customers to become more agile and have the ability to more quickly deploy new services has helps us live up to our mantra of transforming the way we work, live, play and learn.
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Varghese M Thomas
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IronPort Extends Leadership with New E-mail Security Appliances
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New Venture in Vocational Education Launched
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Tata Communications First to Launch Cisco TelePresence Rooms for Public Use
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Cisco Selects Winner of Global I-Prize Innovation Contest
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On ‘The Platform’ Dr. Tracey Wilen-Daugenti, Cisco’s higher education practice lead and Chris Kozup, senior manager of mobility solutions, discuss mobility trends at higher education campuses with three groups in mind - students, faculty and administration staff. In addition The Thought Leadership site has top executives at Cisco India sharing their expertise and vision for the future.
Cisco Systems India Pvt. Ltd, started operations in 1995 with a sales and marketing operations spread across key cities in India and a software development centre in Bangalore, Cisco dominates the networking market in core technologies of routing and switching, as well as WLAN and network security. Today, India headcount is over 4000, including R&D, sales and business support staff.
Cisco Systems, Inc. is the worldwide leader in networking for the Internet. Today, networks are an essential part of business, education, government and home communications, and Cisco Internet Protocol-based (IP) networking solutions are the foundation of these networks. Cisco hardware, software, and service offerings are used to create Internet solutions that allow individuals, companies, and countries to increase productivity, improve customer satisfaction and strengthen competitive advantage. The Cisco name has become synonymous with the Internet, as well as with the productivity improvements that Internet business solutions provide. At Cisco, our vision is to change the way people work, live, play and learn.
Cisco India Facts
India, as a region, is part of the APAC theater
APAC theater contributes to about 11 percent of the global revenue
Cisco has 7 Sales Offices in the region - New Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai, Pune, Kolkata, and Hyderabad
Cisco Global Development Center is in Bangalore, the largest outside of the US
Joint Development Centers with Wipro Technologies and Infosys Technologies in Bangalore; HCL Technologies in Chennai; Satyam Computer Services in Hyderabad and Zensar Technologies in Pune
Cisco’s go-to-Market strategy is through Channel Partners
Presence in over 100 cities through 900 partners
10 system integrators - Cable and Wireless, Datacraft, HCL, Comnet, HP, IBM, Integrix, TCS, CMC, Wipro and HCL Infosystems Ltd.
8 gold certified partners - Cable and Wireless, Datacraft, HCL, Comnet, HP, IBM, Wipro, British Telecom and HCL Infosystems Ltd.
3 Silver certified partners - Integrix, TCS and CMC
2 Distributers - Ingram Micro and Redington
Support and Service - Extensive support system for customers with 9 logistics centers in the country. Besides that, Cisco is the only vendor to have a support program called ARNBD (advance replacement next business day) for its resellers
Cisco Capital was launched in 2005 to offer flexible leasing and financial services to customers and partners
Currently, there are over 180 Cisco Academies across 22 states & union territories with 13187 currently Active Students, more than 24.1% of which are women students; 6507 students have successfully graduated in CCNA
India has over 73241 Cisco Certified Professionals
Cisco’s tradition of IP innovation continues with industry-leading products in the core areas of routing and switching and a broad range of advanced technologies. Advanced technologies represent categories that fit into Cisco’s long-term technology vision, and have the potential to grow to $1 billion in revenue for the company over the next five to seven years.
Cisco Systems, Inc. is the worldwide leader in networking for the Internet. Today, networks are an essential part of business, education, government and home communications, and Cisco Internet Protocol-based (IP) networking solutions are the foundation of these networks. Cisco hardware, software, and service offerings are used to create Internet solutions that allow individuals, companies, and countries to increase productivity, improve customer satisfaction and strengthen competitive advantage. The Cisco name has become synonymous with the Internet, as well as with the productivity improvements that Internet business solutions provide. At Cisco, our vision is to change the way people work, live, play and learn.