Futurum principal analyst Shelly Kramer covers Cisco’s recent announcement that through its Cisco Networking Academy, the company aims to empower 25 million people with digital and cybersecurity skills over the next 10 years as the organization celebrates 25 years of its IT skills-to-jobs program. With this initiative, Cisco aims to equip people with the necessary skillsets for the jobs of the future, and that’s a big benefit for both millions of potential employees, and also for the organizations that will employ them.
Futurum principal analyst Shelly Kramer explores the Microsoft and Cisco partnership announced at Microsoft Ignite 2022, which will bring Microsoft Teams to Cisco meeting devices, highlighting the role interoperability plays in serving up best-in-class collaboration experiences for customers.
Wainhouse senior analyst Daniel Root, part of The Futurum Group family of companies, covers Cisco’s announcement of native Microsoft Teams support for Webex devices and the role that will play in meeting flexibility.
Futurum Analyst Michael Diamond discusses Cisco and other vendors’ move to sell their software and services through hyperscale cloud marketplaces as they try to expand their ecosystems and explores why this is a smart strategy.
Futurum’s Daniel Newman and Ron Westfall examine Cisco’s Q4 2022 and FY 2022 results and why they see the Q4 results as impressive since Cisco beat on both top and bottom accented by a strong top line beat as well as exhibiting the competitive foundation required to power continued investments in innovation throughout its networking, security, collaboration, and optimized applications portfolios.
