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The EDS-Cisco Alliance Delivers Business-Focused Network Solutions
The alliance between Cisco and EDS provides customers with a competitive and strategic advantage through our jointly developed global network solutions. EDS is a trusted advisor, and together we manage today's most advanced global networks while delivering cost savings and advanced capabilities for greater competitive advantage.
John
ChambersPresident and CEO
Cisco Systems, Inc.
The EDS, an HP company, and Cisco alliance delivers data center virtualization, intelligent networks, standardized networks and other differentiated technology solutions to substantially reduce our clients’ capital and operating expenses.
Cisco brings worldwide leadership in IP-enabled networking to the EDS Agility Alliance. Together, we comprise the future of global networking capabilities, delivering truly comprehensive services with the highest quality performance. By managing multiple traffic types over a single network, EDS and Cisco enable clients to reduce network costs and develop next generation services while increasing productivity and enhancing agility. Consequently, the EDS-Cisco alliance delivers clients:
- Accelerated business results
- Simplified and standardized networks
- Reduced communications costs
- Improved efficiency and productivity
- Enhanced security and reduced risk
- Flexible, scalable platform for the future
- Customized and measurable Service Excellence
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Our Alliances Speak: Network Is the Platform For the Agile Enterprise Audio
EDS Applications Services Senior Vice President Charlie Feld, EDS Applications Services Engineering and Portfolio Vice President Mike Childress, and Gary Moore, Cisco's senior vice president, Advanced Systems, discuss how the network is the platform for the agile enterprise.
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The Gap Between Potential and Reality
People say that IT integration is getting easier. I don’t buy it. The messages in the marketplace about service-oriented architectures and Extensible Markup Language easing the challenge of integration don’t match what I see every day.
Our Alliances Speak: Cisco and EDS Shared Vision Video
Gary Moore, senior vice president, Worldwide Advanced Services, and executive sponsor to EDS, speaks on Cisco's perspective of what it means to go to market with EDS and the benefits of our partnership.
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Our Alliances Speak: Cisco and EDS – Cisco and EDS Bringing Innovation To the Market
John Chambers, chairman and CEO of Cisco Systems, speaks about the power of our partnership and bringing innovation to the market.
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Helping Build the Agile Enterprise Platform – Partnering To Develop Global Secure Networking
Cisco and EDS are creating a global secure networking platform to support EDS solutions across the enterprise. Such solutions would include storage services, application integration and customer relationship management with a comprehensive service level guarantee for end-to-end quality.
The Global Secure Networking initiative will help clients take advantage of flexibility, seamless management, real-time performance monitoring, security and service value pricing.
Benefits
- Side-by-side collaboration of worldwide leaders creating the future of networking capabilities and truly comprehensive services
- Leading-edge service assurance techniques that ensures increased availability of information
- Business-ready networks delivering voice, data and video anywhere, at any time, over wired and wireless networks
- Joint, market-leading Service Excellence platform ensuring top quality performance around the globe
Services
EDS manages the complexities of advanced technologies, the integration of networks and alignment of network capabilities with a client's overall business and IT strategies. By consolidating information from disparate systems and platforms, EDS and Cisco collaborate to provide clients with a seamless, web-enabled, data-centric environment. EDS and Cisco mitigate the increasing complexity of managing converged communications services through the ability to manage global networks, provide forward costing and the rapidly deploy services over wired and wireless devices.