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Cisco’s New $100 Million Commitment to Small Business

Earlier today Cisco had a webinar talking about their 100 million dollar commitment to small business. This webinar was hosted by Cisco and presented by Ian Pennell the Senior Vice President, Small Business Technology Group.

Ian talked about Cisco’s already small business commitment with Linksys. This new commitment will be broken up into three categories.

1. Cisco Small Business - this category will be developed for the business with less than 100 employees. Products will be designed to solve a specific problem such as network security, VoIP, wireless, video, and storage.

2. Cisco Small Business Pro - this category will be similar to the first one except that it is geared toward businesses with <250 employees and the products will be setup and managed by a partner.

3. Cisco - no change here, this is the category for the existing larger business using the existing Cisco products.

An Interesting part of this webinar was the announcement about using the cloud to run some of the solutions. This will allow the devices sitting in the small business's office to leverage the cloud for scalability and flexibility. This will allow a business to grow without upgrading hardware and potential downtime possibly associated with that process.

If you want to watch the webinar, here is a link.

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