The Apple Cisco deal may change the world (not just the enterprise)

Jonny Evans, writing for ComputerWorld:

The big news here is that Cisco networks and iOS devices will be optimized to work together “more efficiently and reliably”. That’s so important when you consider how essential Cisco is to networks across the planet with a huge presence in unified communications, SDN, the data center and wireless infrastructure.

This means enterprise users can look forward to better compatibility, performance and kit. More than this it also means enterprise-focused Cisco-based developers offering digital business processes, network intelligence based solutions, and all manner of arcane-sounding deep technology solutions to their clients are even more likely to bring Apple into the fold.

Put it all together and it seems likely that over the next 18-24-months Apple won’t just be in the enterprise, it will be inside the enterprise network. That opens interesting opportunities in network intelligence in combination with artificial intelligence, with implications across the future connected planet.

And:

The Cisco deal means Apple’s technologies will swiftly become peer players even at the deep end within enterprise IT. In future deep implementation of Apple support within Cisco and IBM solutions will mean improvements for iOS systems at every level of the new enterprise IT, including (crucially) new business development.

Such a smart partnership.