News

Agenda

Event Location: Honolulu, Hawaii

Event Agenda
All times are listed in HST.

General Session Presentations

Press Releases

• Coca-Cola Enterprises Leads in Global Collaboration and Next Generation Business Process with Cisco Technologies
• Cisco Empowered Branch Delivers More Applications and New Business Models; Opens Routers to Customers and Third-Party Applications
• Cisco Talent Innovations to Help Address Global IT Skills Gap
• Cisco Study Reveals Collaboration Among Channel Partners Generates 31 Percent of Their Revenue
• Cisco Announces 2007 Global and Top Theater Channel Partner Award Winners
• Cisco Certified Community Builds on Strength of Program Quality and Rigor
• Cisco Innovation Strategy Fuels Data Center Transformation
• Cisco Announces Intent to Acquire Remaining Interest in Nuova Systems
• Honolulu Fuels Revitalization Efforts with Deployment of Cisco Technology
• Economic Impact of Partner Summit on City of Honolulu
• Cisco News Conference Live Webcast

Feature Articles

• Partner Collaboration Yields Big Dividends
• Nuova Acquisition Marks Another Major Step in Cisco's Data Center Business
• Cisco Building on its Data Center Momentum
• Cisco Boosting Data Center Services

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Media

Webcasts

Cisco Partner Summit Press Conference
Cisco is hosting a live webcast from the annual Cisco Partner Summit meeting. The press conference will feature technology innovation as well as go-to-market news.

Tuesday, April 8, 2008
9:00 a.m. (HST); 12:00 p.m. (PDT); 3:00 p.m. (ET)

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Podcasts

The Power of the New Web
Best-selling author of Wikinomiks, Don Tapscott, discusses business and technology issues, and how mass collaboration changes everything.

Transforming the Data Center
Cisco Chairman and CEO John Chambers discusses how companies, communities and individuals are changing the way they share information for everything from creating new business models to delivering entertainment.

Blogs

The Platform: The Official Cisco Blog
Opinions and Insights from Cisco.

Data Center Networks Blog
Discussion of networking-based technologies designed to optimize data centers.

Videos

Coca-Cola Enterprises Transforms Business: Integration with Video
Coca-Cola describes the 'perfect storm' for the use of video and audio over IP networks.

The New Partner Talent Network
Transforming the way Cisco channel partners attract, develop and retain talent.

Photos

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Event Photos

Mufi Hannemann, Mayor of Honolulu
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Cisco and Nuova executives address questions from press and analysts during Data Center News Conference at Cisco Partner Summit 2008. (From Left to right: Doug Gourlay, Sr. Director, Data Center Solutions , Cisco; Rob Salvagno, Sr. Director, Corporate Business Development, Cisco; Soni Jiandani, Vice President, Marketing, Nuova Systems; Edison Peres, Vice President, Worldwide Channels, Cisco)
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Edison Peres, Vice President of Worldwide Channels at Cisco, addresses press and analysts at the Data Center News Conference at Partner Summit 2008
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Esat Sezer, CIO, Coca-Cola Enterprises
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John Chambers, CEO and Chairman, Cisco, addressing Cisco Partner Summit 2008 attendees in his keynote speech in Honolulu, Hawaii.
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John Chambers and Chief Demonstration Officer, Jim Grubb, demonstrated the power of Web 2.0 collaboration, using the Cisco WebEx collaborative desktop, enabled with presence, blogs/wikis, IM and drag and drop video chat.
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Cisco's Chairman & CEO John Chambers and Ian Pennel SVP of Access Routing Technology Group present Esat Sezer, CIO of with the 4 millionth Cisco ISR Router at the Cisco Partner Summit 2008.
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Cisco Chairman & CEO John Chambers recognizes Coca-Cola Enterprises' CIO Esat Sezer with an Innovation and Collaboration Award at the Cisco Partner Summit 2008
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Coca-Cola Enterprises' CIO Esat Sezer awards Cisco Chairman & CEO John Chambers with the #1 Diet Coke Fan Award at the Cisco Partner Summit 2008.
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Product Photos

The Cisco Nexus 5000 Series
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Cisco Partner Exchange is a collaboration network designed to help Cisco partners find, connect and collaborate with the right person at the right partner.
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Cisco WAAS Wide-Area Application Engine (WAE) 674 with Virtual Blade Technology
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Cisco Application eXtension Platform enables a tighter integration between the branch network, IT and application infrastructure using Cisco Integrated Services Routers
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Cisco 881G-W Integrated Services Router offers 802.11n (draft 2) Wireless LAN, optional 3G Wireless WAN, as well as advanced security and routing capabilities in a single device.
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Related Information

Other Resources

• Cisco 880 Series Integrated Services Router
• Cisco Application eXtension Platform
• Channel Collaboration
• Helping Partners Address Global IT Talent Gap
• Cisco Partner Space
• Success in the Second Wave of the Internet: How Wikinomics Creates Opportunities for Cisco Partners (PDF - 2MB)
• Building Momentum: Cisco and the Data Center
• Budget Busters: Data center administration costs skyrocket and energy expenses steadily increase while server outlays remain relatively flat.
• The Promise of Collaboration
  Using the network as the platform to get connected and work together toward common goals, we have the ability to overcome great challenges and take advantage of unprecedented opportunity.
• Gaining Sustainable Competitive Advantage with Channel Partners: A formidable challenge in retaining your leadership position in modern business is building and sustaining competitive advantage in the marketplace.
• Media Fact Sheet: Starwood Hawaii Adoption of Cisco Technology
• Cisco Partners & Resellers
• Cisco Partner News

Partner Summit News

• CRN: Goodwin: Cisco Needs $20 Billion in New Channel Business
• CRN: Cisco Opens ISR to Application Developers
• eChannelLine: Cisco Bridges the Talent Gap
• Reuters: Cisco Buying Rest of Nuova, Sell New Switches
• Dow Jones: Cisco Unveils Switch Tying Data Center, Storage Networks
• IT Pro (Nikkei Solution Business): Collaboration" holds the key in Phase 2 toward growth: U.S. Cisco Systems CEO John Chambers at Cisco Partner Summit 2008
• IT Pro (Nikkei Solution Business): Cisco Systems to set up Cisco Partner Exchange website to collaborate with partners and scout talented personnel
• CRN: Cisco Partner Summit To Focus On Services
• CRN: The New Network

Biographies

• John T. Chambers, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Cisco Biography
• Keith Goodwin, Senior Vice President, Worldwide Channels Biography
• Ned Hooper, Senior Vice President, Corporate Development / Consumer and Small Business Group Biography
• Ian Pennell, Senior Vice President, Access Routing Tech Group Biography
• Edison Peres, Vice President, Worldwide Channels Biography
• Esat Sezer, Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc. Biography

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