HP, Cisco to Share Global Support
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Hewlett-Packard Co. and Cisco Systems Inc. are teaming to provide large customers with combined network maintenance and support services around the globe.
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At its annual HP World user conference in Chicago this week, Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) will announce a number of enhancements to its HP-UX operating system, designed to narrow the gap between the capabilities of the company's Integrity and HP 9000 servers.
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(InfoWorld) - Cisco Systems will open a manufacturing facility in Chennai in south India that will initially make products for the domestic Indian market and also has announced it is setting up a globalization center in the country. The plans were announced Wednesday in Delhi by Cisco Chairman and Chief Executive Officer John Chambers. The globalization center is aimed at driving the company's continued worldwide expansion. Called the Cisco Globalization Center East, the new center in Bangalore will be headed by Wim Elfrink, the company's senior vice president of customer advocacy, who will also be chief globalization officer. The center will have 1,000 employees over the next two years, and the focus will be on local software development and services resources, according to a Cisco spokesman in India. Cisco of San Jose, California, said last year that it willÂ invest more than $1.1 billion in IndiaÂ over the next three years, with most of the spending to expand its research and development (R&D) operations in the country. Cisco first set up operations in India in 1995 and today employs more than 2,000 people in the country in its R&D center in Bangalore and sales offices across the country. The company will triple its staff strength in India over the next three to five years, Chambers said. The company also outsources software and product development to Indian companies. In line with Cisco's outsourced manufacturing model, the company selected one of its partners, Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. of Taiwan, to work with it on the manufacturing facility. The Indian government's ministry of information technology and communications is promoting India as a manufacturing base for technology products, as manufacturing is expected to bring in jobs for semi-skilled people who have not benefited from the Indian software and services boom. Chambers said in Bangalore last year that Cisco was considering the local manufacture of its products following a request from India's minister for information technology and communications, Dayanidhi Maran. A number of multinational companies, including Nokia, Motorola, Dell, and Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson, have decided to manufacture in India. Contract manufacturers such as Elcoteq Network and Flextronics have also set up manufacturing operations in India to target India's growing mobile communications market.
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Fujitsu and Cisco have announced that they have reached an agreement to enter into a strategic alliance to carry out joint development of high-end routers, plan future cooperation in routing and switching, and collaborate on quality improvement.
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(InfoWorld) - Cisco Systems has entered into a partnership with Haier, the largest manufacturer of large home appliances in China, that will allow the companies to work together on a number of projects, including information infrastructure and home networking systems. The partnership, announced Tuesday, will also give the companies the opportunity to share best practices in areas such as investments and financial management and controls, Cisco said in a news release. The two companies will work together on a "broad range" of projects in China and other markets outside the United States, Cisco said. A Cisco spokesman in the United States declined to answer questions about the deal, saying Cisco had "no further details to share at this point." Haier, the fourth-largest "white goods" manufacturer worldwide, is working to expand its brand outside China, Cisco said. Haier, with about 50,000 employees, has entered the networked appliance market in the past two years. Haier is a Cisco customer in China. Haier believes it is "necessary to take advantage of Cisco's business practices as a model for efficient international expansion," particularly in network-reliant areas such as customer service, Zhang Ruimin, Haier's CEO, said in a statement. Cisco will share its experience in using networking technologies to improve corporate competitiveness, added Thomas Lam, president of Cisco China. At a conference earlier this month, Cisco officials suggested that the company plans toÂ focus more of its efforts on the consumer market. The company also sees opportunity in developing countries, officials said.
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Cisco Systems and Indian services company Wipro are collaborating to offer customers IT infrastructure services that combine Cisco&#39;s networking equipment with Wipro&#39;s infrastructure and managed services.The joint offerings will include Cisco&#39;s technology in areas such as application networking services, data centers, security, and telepresence for virtual meetings, the companies said. Cisco and Wipro will collaborate to develop applications that support specific virtual industry models such as health care, financial services, retail, real estate, and transportation.&quot;We have been doing the plumbing so far, which is still good business, but we will increasingly be looking at offering solutions to customers,&quot; John Chambers, Cisco&#39;s chairman and chief executive officer told reporters in Bangalore Wednesday. Cisco expects that the tie-up with Wipro will bring the company revenue of about $1 billion over the next three years.The collaboration will initially focus on the Indian, Middle East, and African markets.Cisco and Wipro are also setting up a Cisco Solution Centre at Wipro&#39;s campus in Bangalore, that will develop and showcase new services and applications around Cisco&#39;s technologies.Cisco also announced Tuesday that it was investing in a venture with another Indian services company, Satyam Computer Services that will focus on the development and deployment of healthcare applications.The collaborations with Wipro and Satyam are part of Cisco&#39;s strategy to use India as a base for developing technologies and business models for emerging markets, which are expected to grow faster than markets in developed countries.The company inaugurated on Tuesday its Globalisation Centre East campus, a new center that will work with partners in other emerging markets in the Middle East, Africa, China, Asia, and Latin America on developing technologies for emerging markets.
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Cisco executives told analysts this week that the company plans to take data center virtualization into areas such as application-aware switching and will partner to provide systems management software.
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HP (Quote, Chart) deepened its relationship with open source software concern JBoss, agreeing to become a major source of support for its application server and Linux.
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Cisco (Quote, Chart) and Fujitsu will collaborate on high-end routers and other products for Japanese carriers and corporations moving to Internet Protocol (define) systems, the companies announced.
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Fujitsu and Cisco have joined hands to produce high-end routers and switches for the Japanese market. Ever since Cisco acquired a few brands earlier this year, its goal was to increase its market shares throughout the world, which didnât happen.
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NEW DELHI -- Network equipment maker Cisco Systems Inc. will set up a center in India to support all aspects of its worldwide operations, the company's chief executive said Wednesday.
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Cisco Systems Inc., the world&#39;s largest maker of computer-networking equipment, formed an alliance with Fujitsu Ltd. to increase sales to Japanese telephone carriers.
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The Linux firm said it will be collaborating with Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel and Oracle, as well as with Chinese companies.
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Hewlett-Packard Co., one of the &quot;initial eight&quot; product distributors in the Wal-Mart RFID trials, will unveil on Monday pacts with systems integrator BearingPoint Inc.
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August 23, 2004 -  - Cisco Systems, Inc. (www.cisco.com) today announced, with the support of Microsoft, the Cisco Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Communications Connector developed for Microsoft Business Solutions CRM.
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Electronics maker Fujitsu and Internet technology giant Cisco have agreed to work together on developing high-end routers used for advanced Internet networks in Japan, the two companies announced Monday.
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(InfoWorld) - John Chambers, Cisco Systems' president and chief executive officer, would partner with Chinese rival Huawei TechnologiesÂ if the opportunity ever arose. "I would love to partner with Huawei," Chambers told reporters during a news conference at the Telecom World 2006 conference and exhibition organized by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) in Hong Kong. "That may or may not happen in the future," he said. Huawei is based in Shenzhen, just across the border from Hong Kong, and has built a growing business on sales of telecommunications and networking gear. In addition to providing equipment to operators in China and in developing nations, Huawei has won significant deals from operators in Europe. In 2005, the company signed contracts worth $8.2 billion, of which 58 percent came from outside China. Relations between Cisco and Huawei have not always been warm. In 2003,Â Cisco sued HuaweiÂ for allegedly copying its IOS software. Cisco dropped that suit in 2004 after Huawei agreed to make changes to its software source code and user manuals. In recent years, Huawei has entered into several partnerships with multinational networking and telecommunication vendors, but these deals have not generally lasted very long. For example, a partnershipÂ agreement between Huawei and Nortel NetworksÂ announced in February never even got off the ground. Within four months, the two companies abandoned their plans to jointly develop broadband products. AÂ joint venture between Huawei and 3ComÂ also did not last. Established in 2003, Huawei-3Com Co. paired Huawei's enterprise networking unit with 3Com's financial backing. Under a deal announced last month, 3Com plans to buy out Huawei's remaining stake in the company, which sold 2 million routers and switches last year and employs about 5,000. Chambers said Cisco has a partnership in several areas with ZTE, another Chinese telecommunication equipment vendor that has looked to expand beyond its home market into new markets overseas. Telecom World runs through Friday. Â ADVERTISEMENTNEW IT SERVICES FROM IBM: EASIER TO BUY AND IMPLEMENTDiscover a simpler, more cost-effective way to get the solutions your company needs to grow more flexible and efficient.