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• Video conferencing: The business case

  By Georgina Swan | 07 August, 2010 09:00

  It could be any meeting room, anywhere, with one major difference: The room, within Sheraton on the Park hotel in Sydney, is a gateway to the world. At the push of a button, we are chatting to colleagues in Toronto, Canada, speaking to each other as if we were seated across the table. We see the nuances of facial expressions, hand gestures and presentations, full-size, clear and uninterrupted.

• Cisco's Cius business tablet: A visual tour

  By Jared Newman | 08 July, 2010 16:07

  Cisco gets down to business with its Cius business tablet that will let you perform video conferencing and is optimized for apps such as WebEx Meeting Center.

• Networks go green and save money

  By Robert L. Mitchell | 22 April, 2010 07:37

  Servers get most of the glory when it comes to energy management, but networking gear is about to catch up.

• HP sets sights on Cisco in networking battle

  By Jeff Jedras | 28 April, 2010 03:49

  It was nearly an hour into the opening keynotes at the Americas Partner Summit on Monday until a Hewlett Packard executive finally used the C-word: Cisco. But the one-time networking partner was certainty front of mind though as HP re-affirmed its commitment to become the leader in every business segment it competes in including networking.

• Seven Questions with Cisco CEO John Chambers

  By John Gallant | 15 March, 2010 06:46

  By almost any measure, Cisco Systems, Inc. is the biggest fish in the networking pond. Thanks to more than 130 acquisitions, a brisk pace of internal development and a much-discussed new organizational structure that the company is using to attack a slew of new markets, Cisco's reach extends from the consumer to the enterprise and deep into service provider networks. The company offers everything from personal video cameras to high-end telepresence systems, set-top video boxes to, lately, servers for the data center, in addition to more traditional network gear like routers and switches.

• Special report: Emerging IEEE Ethernet standards could soothe data center headaches

  By Jim Duffy | 19 January, 2010 17:34

  Cisco, HP and others are waging an epic battle to gain control of the data center, but at the same time they are joining forces to push through new Ethernet standards that could greatly ease management of those increasingly virtualized IT nerve centers.

• Consumers wary of speech recogntion technology: report

  By Tim Lohman | 02 September, 2009 12:50

  Organisations looking to implement voice automation systems need to think very hard about the needs of their customers before doing so, a new report has found.

• Ausenco virtualises to 95 percent, upgrades DR capability

  By Tim Lohman | 07 August, 2009 10:58

  Australian engineering, project management and operations company Ausenco has undertaken a major virtualisation and disaster recovery (DR) upgrade as a foundation to developing a private cloud for its core enterprise applications.

• Cisco: SMS, smartphone attacks on the rise

  By Joan Goodchild | 14 July, 2009 23:54

  New research released today by Cisco warns criminals are rapidly adapting to a more modern economy and continue to find new ways to exploit people with mobile phones and through social networks and text messages.

• HP vs. Cisco: A data center smackdown looms?

  By Kevin Fogarty | 12 June, 2009 03:48

  Despite an overwhelming dominance of the networking business, Cisco has a target painted on its back, in the eyes of Hewlett-Packard.

• Networks will offer 48/7 service by 2013, says Cisco

  By Peter Sayer | 10 June, 2009 04:05

  Forget 24/7 availability: By 2013, telecommunications operators will deliver at least 48 hours of Internet connectivity to their customers, every day of the week, according to a study by Cisco Systems.

• Cisco, EMC, VMware form private cloud pact

  By Tim Lohman | 02 June, 2009 14:22

  The current ratio of IT spend on maintaining IT systems against innovation has become unsustainable according to EMC’s Australian president, David Webster.

• University of Queensland deploys "world's largest" 802.11 wireless network

  By Tim Lohman | 29 May, 2009 11:43

  The University of Queensland has deploying what it claims is the world’s largest 802.11n wireless network to underpin research, access and collaboration at the university.

• Wall Street Beat: IT sales down but analysts hike estimates

  By Marc Ferranti | 08 May, 2009 10:08

  IT and communications bellwethers Sprint, Alcatel-Lucent, Cisco and Symantec this week reported sagging quarterly sales, but analysts, impressed by cost controls and hopeful that a bottom to the tech market has been reached, raised estimates on share price valuations and earnings of some vendors.

• Cisco quietly downsizing through outsourcing

  By Jim Duffy | 13 March, 2009 10:26

  When Cisco celebrated the fifth anniversary of its New England Development Center last year - a ceremony attended by Massachusetts Congresswoman Niki Tsongas and a representative from Gov. Deval Patrick’s office - the company was quietly preparing to move several jobs from there and other locations to contractors in India and elsewhere, mostly in the company's Network Management Technology Group (NMTG).