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12 OCT 2009
Register Today for a Special Webinar: "A Unified and Virtualized Data Center-to-Branch Architecture for Centralized Applications" presented by Cisco, Microsoft, and Intel.

Presented October 29, 2009 at 9am PST, noon EST, this online event jointly presented by Cisco, Microsoft, and Intel will demonstrate how this new validated, unified, and simplified architecture delivers:

Up to a 30-percent reduction in capital and operating expenses
Up to a 50-percent decrease in hardware components
Substantial application acceleration and WAN optimization
Simplified system management that radically speeds provisioning time from days to minutes

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18 AUG 2009
Now Available: Cisco Partner Playbook for the Cisco and Microsoft Alliance

26 MAR 2009
News Release: Microsoft Partners With Cisco on New Unified Computing System

26 MAR 2009
News Release: Cisco Unleashes the Power of Virtualization with Industry's First Unified Computing System

26 MAR 2009
News Release: Cisco Builds Open Partner Ecosystem to Accelerate Industry Transition to Unified Computing

15 DEC 2008
IT PRO - Cisco WAAS 4.1 with Windows Server – Product Review

24 OCT 2008
Microsoft Joins Working Group for Open Standards Messaging Software

03 OCT 2008
Information Week - Cisco, Microsoft Unveil Windows Server Appliance

01 OCT 2008
Microsoft Certified Professional - WoW: Microsoft, Cisco Continue to Cozy Up

01 OCT 2008
Network World - Cisco, Microsoft roll out server, networking appliance

29 SEP 2008
Microsoft and Cisco Enhances Branch Offices through Integration of Windows Server 2008 and Cisco WAAS
Customers to gain more efficient IT architectures and higher performance through integration of Windows services and WAN optimization on common platform

03 SEP 2008
Cisco and Microsoft: Continuing to Build upon a Collaborative Partnership
Q&A: Bob Muglia of Microsoft and Cisco’s Kathy Hill discuss how landmark industry partnership has yielded key customer benefits plus progress across multiple fronts.

26 FEB 2008
Microsoft and Cisco Enhance Branch Offices through Integration of Windows Server 2008 and Cisco WAAS

26 FEB 2008
Cisco and Microsoft Drive New Vision for Application Delivery (WMV - 24 MB)

10 FEB 2008
TechReady6, Seattle Convention Center, Seattle
This Microsoft internal event will give Cisco the opportunity to talk with Microsoft’s technical field organization to show the value of the Cisco and Microsoft joint solutions. UC interoperability will be demonstrated along with Cisco Application Networking Services for Microsoft Sharepoint and Exchange.

30 JAN 2008
Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Launch Tour
Cisco will be premier sponsor and this 29-city tour through US and Canada will target customers and partners. The successful CRM Connector will be highlighted at this event.

22 JAN 2008
Application Delivery Network Press Release

22 JAN 2008
REHAU, World-Leading Manufacturer Transforms Global IT Service Provision with Cisco Wide Area Application Services

22 JAN 2008
Derek Burney, Microsoft Video

20 AUG 2007
Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer and Cisco Systems Inc. Chairman and CEO John Chambers discuss the future of the technology industry and their shared vision for addressing today's customer requirements.

07 MAR 2007
Cisco Expands Microsoft Interoperability to Address Customer And Partner Demand

09 SEP 2006
Cisco and Microsoft Unveil Joint Architecture for NAC-NAP Interoperability
Cisco Systems Inc. and Microsoft Corp. are delivering on their previously stated commitment to provide customers and partners with clear guidance on how Cisco Network Admission Control (NAC) and Microsoft® Network Access Protection (NAP) will interoperate. The two companies are demonstrating the new interoperable architecture at The Security Standard conference (http://www.thesecuritystandard.net), which opened today in Boston.

31 JUL 2006
Technology Leaders Release New Specification to Simplify IT Management
BEA Systems Inc., BMC Software Inc., Cisco Systems Inc., Dell Inc., EMC Corp., HP, IBM Corp., Intel Corporation, Microsoft Corp. and Sun Microsystems Inc. today announced they have published a draft of a new specification that defines a consistent way to express how computer networks, applications, servers and other IT resources are described — or modeled — in extensible markup language (XML) so businesses can more easily manage the services that are built on these resources.

9 JUN 2006
Microsoft Releases Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003, Bringing High-Performance Computing to the Mainstream
Microsoft Corp. today announced the release to manufacturing of Windows® Compute Cluster Server 2003, the company’s first software offering designed to run parallel, high-performance computing (HPC) applications for customers solving complex computations. Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 accelerates customers’ time to insight by providing a reliable, HPC platform that is simple to deploy, operate, and integrate with existing infrastructure and tools.

28 APR 2006
Deutsche Telekom's T-Online to Offer High-Definition IPTV Service over Cisco IP Next-Generation Network
Deutsche Telekom AG and Cisco Systems®, Inc. today announced that T-Online, a division of Deutsche Telekom, is driving growth of its "T-Home" service, a converged data, voice and video (triple-play) service delivered over T-Com's broadband network. This network is based on Cisco® Internet Protocol Next-Generation Network (IP NGN) architecture and the "T-Home" service is delivered with Cisco IP set-top boxes (STBs) supporting the Microsoft TV® IPTV Edition software platform.

25 APR 2006
Cisco Unveils Unified Communications Integration with Microsoft Dynamics CRM Offering to Help SMBs Improve Productivity and Deliver Superior Customer Service
Cisco Systems today announced, with the support of Microsoft, the release of the Cisco® Unified CRM Connector 3.0, a customer relationship management (CRM) application tightly integrated with Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0. The solution helps small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) quickly gain access to customer information on inbound and outbound calls, increasing operational efficiency and providing an improved customer experience.

6 March 2006
Cisco and Microsoft Collaborate to Enhance Real-Time Business Communications
Today, at the VoiceCon 2006 conference, Cisco Systems and Microsoft Corp. announced they are working together to provide collaborative real-time capabilities for businesses through the integration of Microsoft® Office Communicator 2005 and the open Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)-based Microsoft Office Live Communications Server 2005 with the new SIP-based Cisco Unified Communications system.

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18 OCT 2004
Cisco and Microsoft Join Forces to Help Customers Address Security Threats
Companies to integrate leading endpoint and network security technologies to help drive interoperability and standards.

23 AUG 2004
Cisco CRM Communications Connector Links Cisco IP Communications and Microsoft CRM
Cisco and Microsoft Business Solutions Enable Partners to Offer Small and Medium Businesses Integrated Communications.

23 AUG 2004
Q & A
Cisco VPs Discuss Cisco, Microsoft Strategy for Delivering Business Solutions to SMBs

12 JUL 2004
Interview with Darren Houston
Corporate Vice President of US Small and Mid-Market Solutions and Partners, Microsoft Corporation

21 MAY 2004
Windows Server System Magazine Announces 2004 Reader's Choice Award Winners
Fawcette Technical Publications is pleased to announce the winners of the second annual Windows Server System Magazine Reader's Choice Awards.

14 APR 2004
Cisco Unveils Business Ready Data Center Backed by Solutions, Services, Partners and Customers
Cisco Systems, Inc. today announced the Business Ready Data Center, an initiative to address the need for an intelligent network architecture that facilitates the evolution to a next-generation data center. Business Ready Data Center provides the solutions, services, partners and tested architectural design and deployment guides that allow customers to protect applications and information, share computing and storage resources and support emerging service-oriented architectures.

13 FEB 2004
Cisco and Microsoft Launch Small and Medium-Sized Business Collaboration
Cisco Systems® and Microsoft today announced that the two companies intend to team up based on their respective expertise in technology, services and applications to help accelerate small and medium-sized business (SMB) customer and channel partner success. Building on the companies' prior collaboration in areas such as data center architectures and IP telephony, and their shared vision for encouraging new levels of productivity and profitability for SMBs, Cisco and Microsoft aim to collaborate on SMB solution development and optimization, marketing and channel programs.

11 FEB 2004
Cisco, Microsoft Team Up in SMB Channel
Network World Fusion article

31 JUL 2002
Microsoft Systems Architecture Drives Windows 2000 Server Into Corporate Datacenters
Microsoft Corp., together with industry-leading partners, today unveiled the Microsoft® Systems Architecture (MSA) program, designed to make it easier for enterprise customers to simplify implementation while minimizing the time and cost associated with Windows® 2000 Server integration into corporate computing infrastructures. The Microsoft Systems Architecture for Internet Data Center (IDC) is the first in a series of prescriptive architecture guides (PAGs) enabling enterprises to get online datacenter operations up quickly and efficiently.

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C/NET
Cisco and Microsoft make small business together
Cisco Systems and Microsoft will begin selling bundles of their lower-priced networking equipment to small businesses in April, the two companies announced Wednesday.

Forbes
Microsoft, Cisco to work on small business products
Microsoft Corp. and Cisco Systems Inc. said on Wednesday that they would collaborate on software and network hardware design that would make it easier for small and medium-sized companies to get internal systems and networks up and running.

InfoWorld
Cisco, Microsoft team up in SMB channel
Microsoft Corp. multipurpose server and CRM (customer relationship management) software for companies with 500 or fewer employees will fly into U.S. small and medium-sized enterprises on the wings of Cisco networking gear if a new partnership takes off as the companies hope.

Light Reading
Cisco, Microsoft, Target SMBs
Cisco Systems® and Microsoft today announced that the two companies intend to team up based on their respective expertise in technology, services and applications to help accelerate small and medium-sized business (SMB) customer and channel partner success. Building on the companies' prior collaboration in areas such as data center architectures and IP telephony, and their shared vision for encouraging new levels of productivity and profitability for SMBs, Cisco and Microsoft aim to collaborate on SMB solution development and optimization, marketing and channel programs.

Network World
Cisco, Microsoft team up in SMB channel
Microsoft multipurpose server and CRM software for companies with 500 or fewer employees will fly into U.S. small and midsized enterprises on the wings of Cisco networking gear if a new partnership takes off as the companies hope.

Small Business Computing
Cisco, Microsoft Union Spawns SMB IT Solutions
Cisco Systems and Microsoft today announced that the two companies are combining their respective strengths in information technology (IT) hardware, software and services to help spur small- and medium-sized business deployments of computer systems once reserved for enterprise-class corporations only.

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Cisco and Microsoft to collaborate on SMB solution development
Cisco Systems and Microsoft announced that the two companies intend to team up based on their respective expertise in technology, services and applications to help accelerate small and medium-sized business (SMB) customer and channel partner success. Building on the companies' prior collaboration in areas such as data center architectures and IP telephony, and their shared vision for encouraging new levels of productivity and profitability for SMBs, Cisco and Microsoft aim to collaborate on SMB solution development and optimization, marketing and channel programs.

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