Cisco Partner Summit 2022

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Cisco SMB Segment ‘By Far’ The Biggest Partner Opportunity
‘The SMB market is by far the biggest opportunity to grow or even double its market share … And interesting enough, [in SMB], this is 100 percent partners,’ Cisco Channel Chief Oliver Tuszik tells CRN.

Cisco Partner Summit 2022: CEO Chuck Robbins’ Top 5 Quotes
‘We’ve got stuff going on in the cloud marketplaces that we didn’t have before, we’ve got partners delivering as-a-service today, we’ve got the new SASE [Cisco Plus] offer out in the marketplace. There’s a few things we definitely still need to do, but there’s an awful lot of offers that are out there today for customers,’ Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins said during the summit this week.

Cisco Partners: New API-First Strategy Will Help Drive ‘Automation’ And ‘Efficiency’
Partners tell CRN that Cisco’s newly established ‘API-first’ stance may not be ‘sexy’ and will be hard work, but it’s very important to the channel, especially as they begin to build out their own services.

Cisco Security Portfolio Gains New Features, Firewall Aimed At Hybrid Work Protection
To the delight of partners, Cisco reveals new security capabilities and a new addition to the 3100 firewall series to protect companies grappling with hybrid work and an influx of remote users at Cisco Partner Summit 2022.

Cisco Unveils ‘New Era’ Of Specializations Focused On Solution Delivery
‘We’re now looking for knowledge [and] we’re looking for experience … we’re focused on the partners’ ability to actually deliver the solution. That’s what customers are looking for. And because they’re multi-architectural in nature, you can leverage a lot of the expertise that you already have invested in and have in-house,’ Cisco’s Marc Surplus tells CRN about the tech giant’s new Solution specializations.