In pictures: EMC Forum 2012

Jul 31, 2012

VCE joins hundreds of partners, customers to 'transform' IT.

  Longhurst told the crowd the IT industry had an "image problem" and it needed to find a way to get out of backroom cabling and into the boardroom. Cisco's Les Williamson echoed Longhurst's comments, saying it's more important than ever for IT companies to be multi-faceted.
<p>"We [Cisco] pride ourselves on that, but we've had to expand. A lot more of our conversations are around business architecture, not just the underlying technology. That's really starting to take hold."</p>  
 
Longhurst told the crowd the IT industry had an "image problem" and it needed to find a way to get out of backroom cabling and into the boardroom. Cisco's Les Williamson echoed Longhurst's comments, saying it's more important than ever for IT companies to be multi-faceted.

"We [Cisco] pride ourselves on that, but we've had to expand. A lot more of our conversations are around business architecture, not just the underlying technology. That's really starting to take hold."

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