Author: Anthony Lobosco

Cisco Next Generation IPS (NGIPS) is #1 in the Gartner Magic Quadrant

by Anthony Lobosco

Highlights
Gartner:
-Deems Cisco's acquisition and integration of Sourcefire a success, both at the product and security research team levels
-Recognizes the breadth of Cisco IPS availability — NGFW, stand-alone, virtualized, in Cisco Routers, and UTMs (Meraki)
-Cites as a strength the availability of the tightly integrated Cisco AMP products, stating that Cisco is “competing well against stand alone and established advanced persistent threat (APT) solution vendors.”
-Reports some clients referring to a performance impact when also enabling AMP —> this reinforces the need to inform customers and partners regarding sizing considerations.
-Cautions that legacy Cisco IPS requires a different management console than Cisco NGIPS, but also in the caution highlights the progress Cisco is making regarding unified management.

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Happy Thanksgiving from Lobo Cisco! Be grateful and happy!

by Anthony Lobosco

Just a quick note from Lobo Cisco as we enter the Holiday Season.

In this time of gratitude, we give thanks to you! We value your commitment and appreciate your continued investment in Cisco architecture.

On behalf of your Cisco Account Team, we wish you a very Happy Thanksgiving!

I can’t say grateful better then the NYTimes says: Choose to Be Grateful. It Will Make You Happier.

Have a safe holiday!

Anthony

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Lobo Cisco Round Up Week Ending 11/13/15 – Year End Incentives!!

by Anthony Lobosco

2015 is quickly coming to an end and Cisco has some great Year End Incentives.
These incentives are perfect for:

Equipment refreshes
End of life equipment
End of support equipment
New equipment

Incentive Highlights:
Cisco Phone Trade-In Program for New Video Phones – Year End Promo!!!
Get Your Technology Today with No Payments Until 2016 FREE of Charge!! – Cisco Capital
Skyline Training – **$500 Amex Gift Card Promotion!**
Please reach out to me or your Cisco Partner for more info.
Anthony

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Cisco Phone Trade-In Program for New Video Phones – Year End Promo!!!

by Anthony Lobosco

I wanted to let you know about a program that Cisco is running for our best collaboration customers. There are a couple of programs that reward customers to trade-in their existing Cisco older phones toward the purchase of recently announced new Cisco phones. Now is the best time to upgrade your executive management team to the new 8645 or 8865 new video phone. Video will grow by 10X by 2020, by upgrading your management team you will prepare your organization for this transformative shift.

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Get Your Technology Today with No Payments Until 2016 FREE of Charge!! – Cisco Capital

by Anthony Lobosco

Cisco Capital is here to help our US and Canadian customers stay competitive, profitable and efficient with many of the latest Cisco solutions. Cisco Capital customers who qualify can have a financial solution that does not require a large upfront cash investment, and offers up to a 3-month payment deferral on qualifying Cisco hardware, software and bundled services.

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Data Center Event in CT – Cisco / Pure / Total Communications – Thurs, Nov 19th, 8:30 AM to 11:00 AM, Sheraton Hartford South, 100 Capital Blvd. Rocky Hill, CT

by Anthony Lobosco

Total Communications is sponsoring a Customer Facing Data Center event in CT on Thursday November 19th.

Cisco and Pure Storage are sponsoring the Seminar. Customer attending will learn how to:

• Build a data center that can offer elastic IT services

• Integrate server, network, storage & management into one system that utilizes flash

• Leverage the performance of Pure Storage’s all-flash arrays, with Cisco UCS services, Nexus switches, and
VMware to reduce risk and application delivery times

They will also learn how:

• New innovations have impacted the server market and today’s data centers

• A converged / flash integrated solution enables migration to an IT as a Service (ITaaS) model—so you can
efficiently scale and deliver IT services

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