Cisco will have a great opportunity to show its networks of enormous strength and move on to the next wave of growth.
Calendar year 2016 was a big year of change at Cisco.
In the year, was not sure how aggressive new CEO Chuck Robbins would be to make changes. Turns, it was much more active you ever dreamed and 2016 will be remembered as the year printed Robbins has the company with his own fingerprints.
During the year that Cisco made several, the most important of which was Jasper technologies. He transformed the Cisco be evangelist of the ITO from year to a major player. We have also seen the company entering the market of analytics with its analysis of fun platform Cisco Tetration.La did not stop acquisitions and product announcements, however.
Cisco has a multi-pronged approach to innovation, which lies well in the future.
2017 will bring even more change:
Cisco has without any doubt a big year of change and hope 2017 to be even larger. Why? Talk to any administration of Cisco and you will say in the digital age, businesses must move with unprecedented speed and be prepared to stop their own markets to thrive. The engine warms up, and here's what you can expect from Cisco in 2017.
Cisco will take a chunk of the security market.:
The security market is easily the most fragmented of all submercados of YOU. There is currently a $75 billion, no sole source contract have share anywhere near double digits. Cisco, in particular, dropped safely for years with various initiatives and architectures that are ineffective.
Today, things are different. As indicated in a previous post, Cisco is not never has positioned the best in the security industry, and the company finally using its assets more importantly, your domain name in the network-to create tangible differentiation. Search 2017 year breaks with the competition and takes a piece of behalf of security.
Cisco breaks away in collaboration:
Cisco collaboration has had its ups and downs over the years, but the high technology company in the right direction. Spark was launched as a soft team collaboration tool, but in reality, it is much more than that. It is a fully integrated hardware, software, and experience of cloud that can provide seamless experiences, easy to use on a mobile phone, office or meeting room. Expect Cisco to continue to innovate in spark and create its next wave of growth in collaboration.
The data center gets a shot in the arm with an acquisition:
The unified computing system (UCS) led to data center business unit in Cisco for years. Recently, however, the growth of the product has fallen. Indeed, this past quarter saw the entry of the data center fall 3 percent.
UCS is a great product, but the computer industry is changing to hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI). Current offer of Cisco, hyperflexion, is an OEM of SpringPath, and channel comments was that they would prefer rather than produces OEM of Cisco. OEM allows Cisco to dip your toe in the water, and in 2017 Cisco will jump two feet with the acquisition of SpringPath, which will stimulate the growth of the data center.
Expect Cisco to focus on analytics:
When we think of Analytics, the Cisco name rarely is head. However, the analytical becomes an essential component of the strategy of Cisco. It is not only the core of the tetration product recently announced, but it is also essential for differentiation of the security company, the Internet of things, network operations and collaboration. Expect to see an analysis more data network to differentiate its many competitors offering more small, which do not correspond to your Cisco footprint.
Cisco will push its engineer base to learn new skills:
The transition of the markets. It is a fact. And when subsequently, engineers who work with the technology must change their abilities. Most of the suppliers do not see the transition, your event is not supported or do not want your base engineer, forcing them to change. And that always ends up being a disaster.
Think of the engineers who work with mainframes, Token Ring, voice TDM, SNA and other trends. Most have disappeared, such as vendors who sell things.
One of the competitive advantages of Cisco is its enormous base of engineers, of which many are immersed in networks was performed. Based on my conversations with executives from Cisco, including Jeanne Dunn, who heads the Group of reflection of Cisco, I think that Cisco wants to interrupt their engineer base and acquire new skills, such as automation, scientific information, programming and business skills. Some people don't like changes in certification requirements, but the fact is that Cisco engineers need to begin to develop skills for the digital age.
Executive churn will slow down:
Given that Robbins took the lead, there was a constant renewal of the level of the Executive, including Kelly Ahuja, Rob Soderberry and the famous group "MPLS", to name a few.
I think the team of Robbins is now. And while there may be the odd result here and there, it is the team that will run with.
A question I ask myself is if the company would replace recently deceased Biri Singh Technical Director Thibault. I think engineering is in good hands which may be under the co-direction of Rowan Trollope (ITO and applications) and David Goeckeler (networks and security), and the structure will remain as it is. Get used to the faces above; You have to stick for awhile...
One thing remains the same in the Cisco is committed to changing the world. Former CEO of Cisco, John Chambers, had a great desire to have the Cisco to make the world a better place. As I pointed out earlier this year, Robbins has picked up the ball of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and runs with it faster than ever before.
The world is increasingly digitized and many of the digital factors, like ITO, of clouds and mobility, are network-centric. This coming year a great opportunity to showcase its huge force of networks and past to the next wave of growth Cisco.
