Cisco CIO talk on "CISCO and Globalization"

Yesterday, I was a part of a talk by the Cisco India CIO Mr. Gopalaratnam. Other than the points that he was talking about CISCO and what is it doing with respect to CISCO's vision for the future keeping in mind the globalization trend, the points that I noted from the talk were:
(a) Mobility as a platform will be the key to the future. CISCO has acknowledged this.
(b) He used the word "green" once in the meet, to forget it off in the rest of the presentation :) (just a formality?)
(c) Globalization as a trend - leading to the major business acquisitions and business trends. Towards this aspect one of the key trends that CISCO is focusing on was Communication and Collaboration.
(d) Repackaging the company products as services.
Virtualization key to future - 3 levels of virtualization (including cloud computing). Interestingly, he said that pricing is still a challenge and they are working on getting the pricing model right.
(e) CISCO v/s Microsoft - CISCO thinks that the future is in networks, MS thinks that the future is in desktop.
(f) Recession time - time to improve operational excellence or time to innovate? Might be a better time to innovate to be better prepared to ride the upturn market.
(g) CISCO org structure that was changed radically recently.
(h) With CISCO entering new markets, its former partners are becoming competitors. They are ready to face it.

Overall a good talk. Nothing radically new talked about. It had the main keywords that one would expect to hear from such a talk :)

So long till the next time.
Sidvish