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Public Council Teleconference: Application Rationalization — Hidden Costs and Smart Decisions
November 17 at 11:00 am US/Eastern (GMT-5)
Join Honorio Padrón, of The Hackett Group, who will share the drivers for companies to tackle application rationalization and the results of research that define the hidden cost of complexity. Additionally, we will discuss key decision milestones—to start or not, holding the course steady and fulfilling expectations.
Virtual Desktop Cost-Benefit Analysis — Michael Jacobs, Catlin Group
The analysis contained in this presentation measures the cost of everything from the machines and licenses to the infrastructure for virtual vs. traditional desktop environments.
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Learn more about the CIO Executive Council »January 10, 2007 — CIO —
Even before Cisco Systems Chairman and Chief Executive John Chambers took the stage at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES), it was clear he’d be talking about the consumer market—a radical change for a company best known for selling routers to enterprises. The stage featured a mock living room, kids’ room, home office and car.
"While we are a leader in the enterprise, we only have 81 million [consumer] devices out there," Chambers said during a keynote speech on Tuesday. Just 10 percent of Cisco’s business comes from the consumer market, but targeting consumers is one of Cisco’s top four goals for the future, he said.
Chambers outlined Cisco’s vision for offering data, voice, video and mobility to consumers and enabling all of those services in a converged way on a variety of devices.
"Video is the killer app but it’s not standalone," he said. The services won’t be siloed, but they’ll work together in a way that end users won’t notice, he said.
Key to the vision is an intelligent network that simplifies the complexity behind such services, Chambers said.
Cisco Chief Demonstration Officer Jim Grubb showed off just what Chambers meant, outlining services that Cisco expects will be available in the market in about three years.
In a mocked-up car, Grubb used a touch screen to choose songs to play from his music collection. When he turned off the display, like when a real user would shut off the car in a garage, his cell phone beeped and displayed a message asking if he wanted to continue with the music session. The phone then played the same song just where it left off when the car turned off.
Entering the living room on stage, Grubb turned off the cell phone and turned on the TV, which then displayed a similar message. He chose to continue the session, and since his music collection also featured the video for the song he was playing, the video automatically started playing on the TV where the song left off.
Grubb showed how he could access all his content and services in the same way from the TV as well as multiple computers in the house. He could also choose to share and receive content such as photos from friends as well as limit the content that children in the house could access.
Some of these capabilities could be delivered today, but Chambers admitted that the complexity of setting up such a system would discourage most consumers from doing so. The solution, from the perspective of the number-one networking company, is an intelligent network, he said.