Management vision of Cisco CEO John Chambers under fire

Why would I use a Cisco 7900 phone on CUCM using SIP?; Human error cited as cause of Cisco.com outage Cisco Alert NetworkWorld.com | Update Your Profile Sponsored by IBM NWW Data in Action: Effective data management for smarter outcomes Date: August 19, 2009 Exhibit Zone 8:00 am PDT / 11:00 am EDT to 12:00 pm PDT / 3:00pm EDT Join us for a special, complimentary Virtual Conference, offering valuable information for lowering IT costs through industry-leading performance, enhanced storage compression and improved automation. Spotlight Story Management vision of Cisco CEO John Chambers under fire Ben Worthen of The Wall Street Journal wrote a very revealing article this week on the Cisco management structure designed by Cisco CEO John Chambers. Today, Cisco makes 70% of its decisions collaboratively by having its executives work on committees—dubbed councils and boards in Cisco-ese, up from 10% just two years ago. As shown by the Journal's Cisco organizational chart below, Cisco now has 59... Read full story Related News: Why would I use a Cisco 7900 phone on CUCM using SIP? There's not much of a compelling reason to use the SIP binary image on the Cisco 7900 series phones if you're using Cisco Unified Communications Manger with the phones. If a company was using a Cisco 7900 series phone registered to another vendor's PBX, converting the phone to SIP would make more sense. Most vendors support SIP line side support, but do not support the Cisco proprietary Skinny... Human error cited as cause of Cisco.com outage Human error was cited as the reason Cisco.com was down for two hours yesterday. Cisco says it lost no business during the downtime and had not heard of any customers being adversely affected by it financially.Still, how could the preeminent Internet company allow this to happen? How could they not plan for an eventuality like this? 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