Comments on: Will Cisco Succeed in the Consumer Electronics Business? http://viodi.com/2009/01/01/cisco/ The Bridge Between the Heartland and Hollywood Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:16:06 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Alan Weissberger http://viodi.com/2009/01/01/cisco/comment-page-1/#comment-14435 Alan Weissberger Thu, 26 Feb 2009 00:34:25 +0000 http://viodi.com/?p=601#comment-14435 According to KCBS radio, Cisco terminated 250 people yesterday, but it was called a "restructuring" rather than a layoff. http://www.kcbs.com/Cisco-Releases-250-Bay-Area-Employees/3917792 According to the San Jose Mercury News, Cisco Systems announced earlier this month that the company would be slashing up to 2,000 positions following a 27 percent year-over-year drop in profit during the second quarter. Will Cisco be able to harness the resources needed to compete in new markets when it is jettisoning employees? According to KCBS radio, Cisco terminated 250 people yesterday, but it was called a “restructuring” rather than a layoff.

http://www.kcbs.com/Cisco-Releases-250-Bay-Area-Employees/3917792

According to the San Jose Mercury News, Cisco Systems announced earlier this month that the company would be slashing up to 2,000 positions following a 27 percent year-over-year drop in profit during the second quarter.

Will Cisco be able to harness the resources needed to compete in new markets when it is jettisoning employees?

]]> By: Alan Weissberger http://viodi.com/2009/01/01/cisco/comment-page-1/#comment-12667 Alan Weissberger Thu, 05 Feb 2009 16:21:50 +0000 http://viodi.com/?p=601#comment-12667 Here's what CNET writes about Cisco in consumer electronics: http://news.cnet.com/wireless/?keyword=Cisco+Systems Here’s what CNET writes about Cisco in consumer electronics:

http://news.cnet.com/wireless/?keyword=Cisco+Systems

]]> By: Alan Weissberger http://viodi.com/2009/01/01/cisco/comment-page-1/#comment-12325 Alan Weissberger Sat, 24 Jan 2009 01:30:57 +0000 http://viodi.com/?p=601#comment-12325 Cisco wants to enable people to live a connected life that is more personal, more social and more visual by utilizing the network as the platform for easily sharing experiences across devices, locations and applications. To that end Cisco plans to build intelligent end to end media ready home networks that extend from the content source to the consumer. At an upcoming webinar for Industry Analysts, Cisco executives will share their consumer vision, strategy and discuss some of the products and solutions recently announced at CES 2009. Cisco wants to enable people to live a connected life that is more personal, more social and more visual by utilizing the network as the platform for easily sharing experiences across devices, locations and applications. To that end Cisco plans to build intelligent end to end media ready home networks that extend from the content source to the consumer.

At an upcoming webinar for Industry Analysts, Cisco executives will share their consumer vision, strategy and discuss some of the products and solutions recently announced at CES 2009.

]]> By: Alan J Weissberger http://viodi.com/2009/01/01/cisco/comment-page-1/#comment-12173 Alan J Weissberger Tue, 20 Jan 2009 23:19:17 +0000 http://viodi.com/?p=601#comment-12173 In addition to consumer electronics, Cisco now is entering the fiercely competitive compute server biz. Seems to be an extension of their Data Center virtualization and connectivity product initiatives. Have they become the masters of the virtualization universe? NYTimes: Cisco Plans Big Push Into Server Market The product to be announced soon — a server computer equipped with sophisticated virtualization software — is a bold but risky move by Cisco into an unfamiliar, intensely competitive market that typically produces far lower profits than Cisco makes from network gear. But it reflects the company’s ambition to grow beyond its roots as the so-called plumber of the Internet to offer everything from instant messaging software to digital stereos. The company is on a collision course with traditional partners like Hewlett-Packard and I.B.M which hold dominant positions in the server market. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/20/technology/companies/20cisco.html?_r=1&ref=business Our take: Cisco wants to diversify OUT of the no growth networking market into tangential markets which extends the company's presence. They perceive home electronics as an extension of home networking/WiFi as per their CES announcement. Now they see compute servers as an extension of the virtual data center. Will they succeed?.....It seems to be a stretch and a risky bet for a company noted for enterprise networking and selling routers and switches to network operators and ISPs In addition to consumer electronics, Cisco now is entering the fiercely competitive compute server biz. Seems to be an extension of their Data Center virtualization and connectivity product initiatives. Have they become the masters of the virtualization universe?

NYTimes: Cisco Plans Big Push Into Server Market
The product to be announced soon — a server computer equipped with sophisticated virtualization software — is a bold but risky move by Cisco into an unfamiliar, intensely competitive market that typically produces far lower profits than Cisco makes from network gear. But it reflects the company’s ambition to grow beyond its roots as the so-called plumber of the Internet to offer everything from instant messaging software to digital stereos. The company is on a collision course with traditional partners like Hewlett-Packard and I.B.M which hold dominant positions in the server market. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/20/technology/companies/20cisco.html?_r=1&ref=business

Our take: Cisco wants to diversify OUT of the no growth networking market into tangential markets which extends the company’s presence. They perceive home electronics as an extension of home networking/WiFi as per their CES announcement. Now they see compute servers as an extension of the virtual data center. Will they succeed?…..It seems to be a stretch and a risky bet for a company noted for enterprise networking and selling routers and switches to network operators and ISPs

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