Cisco Systems has signed a $50 million deal with the U.S. Agency for International Development in the largest partnership that Cisco’s Russian unit has ever entered. Cisco will contribute between $30 million and $40 million as well as make available staff and in-house services for training centers, technology related services and other projects across Russia [...]
Cisco Systems has recently hired two former Juniper Networks employees for its own service provider sales force. Sales executives Neal Oristano and Jim Labovites will join Cisco as the firm’s newest vice presidents. Oristano’s role at Cisco will be as vice president of global service provider market segment sales and Labovites will join the firm [...]
We reported in June that new administration’s defense budget includes major cuts to big spending programs. But overall, will the DoD’s bottom line really shrink? Counterinsurgency expert David Kilcullen, senior advisor to Afghanistan theatre commander Gen. Stanley McChrystal, sees “about two more years of heavy fighting” ahead of us in Afghanistan, and the Washington Post [...]
