RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK – Chuck Robbins, the UNC-CH graduate who has transformed tech giant Cisco to allign with his vision over the past four years since replacing the retired John Chambers, is at it again.
Cisco is shuffling several managers and restructuring some of its business units in order to “strongly position the company against our competitors,” say tech media reports, citing an internal Cisco email.
Cisco confirmed changes are being made, noting the moves “will better align our development process with our customer’s needs.”
“Cisco’s enterprise networking and data center networking units will be combined, its cloud computing business will be renamed and expanded to include server products, and the tech giant is reshuffling leaders,” reports CRN.
“The tech giant is combining its enterprise and data center networking units—which make equipment that helps companies shuttle data over the internet and between computers inside data centers, respectively—according to an internal email sent to employees on Monday by David Goeckeler, a senior Cisco executive.”
News site The Information broke the story.
“The tech giant is combining its enterprise and data center networking units—which make equipment that helps companies shuttle data over the internet and between computers inside data centers, respectively—according to an internal email sent to employees on Monday by David Goeckeler, a senior Cisco executive,” The Information reported.
“The email was viewed by The Information. Cisco is also renaming its existing cloud computing software business, expanding it to include server products and appointing a new head of the group, Liz Centoni.”
In a statement to CRN, Cisco confirmed a reorganization.
“We are focused on the tremendous opportunities in front of us across cloud, automation, 5G, security and collaboration,” a Cisco spokesperson said. “To continue the great progress already made, we are making some organizational updates to our networking and security business. [These] changes will better align our development process with our customer’s needs as they transition to a multi-domain approach.”
Robbins has put in place his own management team, made layoffs, and refocused the firm more on software as well as services than hardware. The changes continue.
Cisco employs several thousand people in RTP.
