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Amid the backdrop of its Partner Summit, networking company launches slew of SMB products, services
Cisco Systems Inc. used the recent Cisco Partner Summit in Boston to deliver on its promised $100 million investment in the SMB market, launching a host of products and services. The new products and services, which include additions to the Cisco Small Business Pro series, arm the channel with the capabilities to install and manage systems that hit the needs of smaller companies.
"Small business to Cisco is definitely big business," said Rick Moran, Cisco's vice president of small-business networking.
Cisco's SMB push took hold in earnest late last year when the San Jose, Calif., networking giant said it planned to funnel $100 million into SMB initiatives and kicked off the rebranding of its Linksys small-business products as Cisco Small Business, while also wrapping its Linksys small-business partners into the Cisco channel. This year and next year is when partners will see Cisco executing, said Andrew Sage, Cisco's vice president of worldwide small-business sales.
"Fiscal Year 2010 is the year of execution for sales and the channel, the product suite and services for the SMB,"...