Cisco Aims Higher Even Than Cloud Computing

Company goal is "to become the best company in the world, and the best company for the world"

Nov. 15, 2008 08:35 AM

"It's a chance for Cisco to participate on a bigger scale, helping to bring peace to the world. Is that too big a dream?...(long pause)...Maybe." With that thought Cisco CEO John Chambers ends an interview published this week by BusinessWeek in which he reveals that Cisco's cloud computing ambitions are nothing compared to its terrestrial goal, which is "to become the best company in the world, and the best company for the world."

Speaking with BW's Peter Burrows, Chambers explains Cisco's activities vis-a-vis emerging markets such as China, India, and the Middle East. And he mentions how King Abdullah of Jordan personally reached out to him saying "John, you'll make a lot of money in Jordan and the Middle East."

You can read the interview in full here.

Cisco has been in the headlines too recently for its Cloud Computing initiatives. David Bernstein, whose team runs Cisco's internal Cloud Computing platform, is a speaker at SYS-CON's upcoming Cloud Computing Expo next week in San Jose, CA.

Bernstein will be giving a breakout session called "The Network as a Cloud Fabric - Where It Is and Where It's Going."

The 1st International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo has, in addition to Bernstein, a star-studded lineup of speakers, including:

Dr Werner Vogels - VP & CTO, Amazon.com (Keynote)
Mike Feinberg - Senior Vice President, Cloud Infrastructure Group, EMC
Steve Herrod, CTO, VMware
Rob Weltman - Director of Grid Services, Yahoo!
Peter Nickolov - President CTO, 3tera
Kevin Haar - President & CEO, Appistry
Songnian Zhou - Co-Founder & CEO, Platform Computing
Patrick Harr - CEO, Nirvanix
Gerrit Huizenga - Cloud Solutions Architect, IBM
John Keagy - CEO & Co-Founder, GoGrid/ServePath
Sajai Krishnan - CEO, ParaScale
Reuven Cohen - Founder & Chief Technologist, Enomaly
Mike Eaton - CEO, Cloudworks
Jonathan Bryce - Founder at Mosso (Rackspace)
Nati Shalom - CTO, GigaSpaces
Don MacAskill - CEO & Chief Geek, SmugMug
Billy Marshall - Founder & Chief Strategy Officer, rPath
Dr Thorsten von Eicken - CTO & Founder, RightScale
Jonathan Pyke - Chief Strategy Officer, Cordys
Jason Stowe - Founder & CEO, Cycle Computing
David Young - Co-Founder & CEO, Joyent
Dave Durkee - Founder, CEO & Technical Director, ENKI
John Janakiraman - CTO, Skytap
Stuart Charlton - Chief Software Architect, Elastra
Lars Leckie, Principal, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners
Dr Rich Wolski - Professor, U.C. Santa Barbara
Javier Soltero - Co-Founder & CEO of Hyperic
Omer Trajman - Director of Field Engineering, Vertica Systems
Rachel Chalmers - Senior Analyst, Enterprise Software, The 451 Group

and with a special Cloud Bootcamp on November 20 led by
Alan Williamson, Founder at Blog-City.com, Creator of BlueDragon

All breakout sessions are all listed in further detail here.

Speaker Faculty - SYS-CON's 1st International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo

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Jeremy Geelan is Sr. Vice-President of SYS-CON Media & Events. He is Conference Chair of the all-new International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo series, of the International Virtualization Conference & Expo series, of AJAXWorld RIA Conference & Expo series, and of the long-running SOAWorld Conference & Expo series. He's founder of Cloud Computing Journal, Web 2.0 Journal, AJAX & RIA Journal and other leading SYS-CON titles. From 2000-6, as first editorial director and then group publisher of SYS-CON Media, he was responsible for the development of all new titles and i-Technology portals for the firm, and regularly represents SYS-CON at conferences and trade shows, speaking to technology audiences both in North America and overseas. He is executive producer and presenter of "Power Panels with Jeremy Geelan" on SYS-CON.TV.