Cisco Systems Hosts ''Tech Talk for Investors'' Educational Webcast: WAN Application Acceleration
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Cisco Systems (Nasdaq:CSCO) will host another session of its "Tech Talk for Investors" webcasts, with corresponding slide presentation, on Wednesday, September 13, 2006, at 1:30PM Pacific time.
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Voice over IP, online presentations, and multiparty video conferencing under consideration.
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Cisco Systems Inc. surprised investors on Tuesday with a stronger-than-expected outlook and quarterly profit as demand for network equipment to handle Web traffic showed no signs of weakening, driving its shares up 5 percent.
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Cal Evans has posted his notes from the (just passed) Web Builder 2.0 Conference that happened over in Las Vegas. PHP had its presence there through Cal's "PHP Powers Mashups" talk and others like Chris Shiflett.   There was plenty to see and do at the conference besides PHP and Cal highlights just a few:  AJAX Optimization talks  An overview of some Flickr Stats Google's mashup offerings An introduction to  and some talk of benchmarking Ajax  Check out the full post though - it's jam-packed with links and some great event information.
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Cisco launched a virtual world that it hopes will encourage resellers to meet with application developers to exchange information that helps provide products to Cisco customers.
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Cisco Systems recently organized a meeting where it invited managers from all its Networking in the MEA region. The meeting discussed the results achieved by the program last year, in addition to revealing plans to expand the Academy programs in 65 regional nations by the year 2010.
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Plus: Cisco posts higher quarterly profit...RealNetworks reports leap in quarterly earnings...Time Warner earnings perk up. Check back for latest.
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Over on the Zend/PHP Conference and Expo site, they've formally announced the official schedule of events for the conference, giving times and dates for each of the talks.    Day One will see talks on: XML/Web Services, Best Practices, Extending PHP, and Security talk. You'll also be able to take the "Crash Course" before the Zend PHP5 Certification test in a two part series. Day Two is jammed with even more PHP goodness with talks covering: Scalable PHP Applications, eBay Web Services, a PHP case study, a great Panel Discussion, Ajax and Web Services, working with the Zend Framework, and Speeding up PHP with Oracle. Day Three has talks covering: Moving to PHP5, Moving an Enterprise to PHP, PHP/Rich Internet Applications, PDO, and PHP Lifecycle Management. Day Four (finishing things up) is shorter with talks on: Unicoding with PHP6, Consuming Web Services with PHP-GTK2, Testing with PHPUnit, Developing PHP on Windows, and the closing keynote from Robert "r0ml' Lefkowitz   And, of course, any time after the first day, you can take the PHP5 Certification Exam instead of attending one of the sessions.   Haven't signed up yet? You can reserve your spot today and get in on all of the PHP goodness a presented by some of the best speakers around. Unforutnately, the Early Bird Special as passed, but check out the Registration page for all of the details on prices.
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Cisco(R) (NASDAQ: CSCO) today announced the availability of "The Subnetting Game," a new educational game designed to help make the highly technical topic of subnetting easier for students to learn.
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(InfoWorld) - The first week of September, the unofficial start of the new season, has been hectic for IT investors. Analysts are scrambling to parse through news from networking giants Cisco Systems Inc., Alcatel SA and Lucent Technologies Inc., and a board fracas at Hewlett-Packard Co. caused the company to come under the scrutiny of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission as well as the California State Attorney General. The big question for Wall Street analysts and institutional investors attending the Cisco Systems Inc. analyst day in New York Wednesday was whether the vendor could sustain its revenue and profit momentum. Executives lead by Chief Executive Officer John Chambers said that by incorporating data, voice, video and mobile capabilities -- its so-called "quadruple play" -- across all its product lines, Cisco can take advantage of converging networks in the service provider, enterprise, commercial and consumer markets. The company reiterated its forecast of 10 percent to 15 percent growth for the next three to five years. But more importantly, in wide-ranging give-and-take with the Wall Street community, company executives appeared very confident about specific details that backed up the forecast. "They were very bullish," noted Mark Sue, an analyst with RBC Capital Markets. Sue said that two good signs were the company's confidence that it could keep its tax rate down to current levels (hovering around 25 percent) and Chief Financial Officer Dennis Powell's statement that the company would pay out a dividend at some point. The company did not get an uptick after the meeting, even though some analysts said they thought shares have a lot of potential to move upward. Part of the problem may be that Cisco was caught in the general market depression this week, as a result of reports of slowing housing sales. Cisco (CSCO) closed at US$21.54 Thursday, down $0.15. Meanwhile Alcatel SA and Lucent Technologies Inc. shareholders approved the merger of the two networking vendors Thursday. The merger is seen as part of a trend toward consolidation in the networking and telecom markets. There is intense competition in the growth areas of the mature enterprise market -- such as VOIP -- while Chinese manufacturers are putting pressure on the Western networking giants on the low end. IT investors are taking a wait-and-see approach to Alcatel-Lucent. On Thursday, Lucent (LU) shares closed at $2.25, down by $0.02, while Alcatel shares (ALA) closed at $11.77, down by $0.24. On his part, Cisco's Chambers sees his greatest competition coming from Asia, not Paris or New Jersey. A board disagreement at HP, meanwhile, is a sign of the times. An internal investigation by HP to see which members of its board of directors leaked information to the press resulted in several board members leaving earlier this year. One departed board member, Silicon Valley venture capitalist Thomas Perkins, has accused HP of using possibly illegal means to conduct its investigation, sparking newly revealed government inquiries. However it ends, the squabble is seen to signify the end of an era when board members were all good friends of the chief executive. The leaks stemmed back to the time when the board started having critical discussions of ex-CEO Carly Fiorina. Though current CEO Mark Hurd appears to be well on the way to a healthy reorganization of the company, the board infighting could be a distraction. HP (HPQ) shares closed at $35.42 Thursday, down by $0.42.
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Networking giant Cisco Systems posted solid financial results Wednesday, crediting the company&#39;s broad customer base and new products for strong sales growth.The company&#39;s earnings were in line with financial expectations. Excluding charges, earnings were $2.4 billion, or $0.38 per share, on $9.8 billion in revenue. Financial analysts had been expecting earnings of $0.38 per share on $9.78 billion in revenue, according to a survey by Thomson Financial.Sales were up 16.5 percent year over year for Cisco&#39;s second fiscal quarter of 2008, which ended Jan. 26.Cisco, the world&#39;s largest router manufacturer, has benefitted from the growth of Internet traffic over the past decade and -- more recently -- from the flurry of investments in Web 2.0 technologies. But there have been signs recently that growth may be slowing in this area. Just last week, Google alarmed Wall Street by&#160;falling just short of expectations, and worries of a U.S. recession may have caused jitters in U.S. stock markets recently.In a statement, Cisco chairman and CEO John Chambers expressed optimism for the months ahead, however. &quot;Our innovation pipeline is in excellent shape,&quot; he said, &quot;and execution against our long-term strategy remains unwavering.&quot;
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VoiceCon Spring 2007 -- Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) today announced new products and applications that allow organizations to use their network as a platform for more effective and more personalized business collaboration.
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For nearly a decade, Cisco(R) (NASDAQ: CSCO) Networking Academy(R) has partnered with the educational community to help people worldwide realize the dream of a better life by teaching valuable networking and IT skills.
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Cisco Systems Inc. on Tuesday launched  a Web-based product to help businesses deliver live and  on-demand videos to large groups, in its latest push to expand  into the enterprise video market.
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By Sarah Jane Tribble, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Feb. 7--Like a salve to Wall Street's technology-sector jitters, Cisco Systems stepped forward Tuesday to allay any fears that its growth would slow and disappoint investors.
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(InfoWorld) - Cisco Systems is stepping up to the plate in the highly competitive application acceleration game, banking on technology and a lot of end-to-end network expertise to set it apart from other players. The company will announce on Tuesday that it is beefing up the WAFS (Wide-Area File Services) software it introduced last year so it can speed up application transactions and file transfers. It is also adding compression and other techniques so application traffic wonât take up so much network bandwidth, said Mark Weiner, director of marketing for application solutions at Cisco. Also this week, the company is set to roll out WAAS (Wide-Area Application Services) software, as well as more powerful versions of its WAE (Wide-Area Application Engine) appliances on which to run it. There will also be a WAAS module for Ciscoâs Integrated Services Router. Wide-area bandwidth is expensive, and software overhead can slow down applications even on a fat pipe. Wide-area file services allow companies to speed up the performance of those applications by caching copies of files locally and then managing updates and changes. Cisco competes with companies such as Juniper, which purchased WAFS vendor Peribit, and Riverbed, an application acceleration startup that enhanced its software and appliances last week and is aiming to go public. Cisco is late to the game with some of its new technology, but it can offer peace of mind by making the products work smoothly with a Cisco infrastructure, said Eric Siegel, an analyst at Burton Group. Pairing up Cisco gear worked well for the city of Fort Wayne, Ind., which wants to use WAAS to speed up communication with some of its fire stations, said CIO Clifford Clarke. WAAS seems to have performed better with Fort Wayneâs Cisco network than did other vendorsâ products, he said. Harold Hamm, vice president of IT at architecture firm Reynolds, Smith and Hills, said he couldnât buy the kind of WAN bandwidth heâd need to match his test results with the new gear. âOnce a big file gets cached on a local server, itâs like working on a LAN,â he said.
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Brandeis University has successfully deployed Cisco's Application Control Engine module in its Cisco Catalyst 6500 Switch and is using it for Moodle, an open-source program for creating online learning communities.