Cisco held its annual Partner Summit in San Francisco last month, where the vendor introduced several new channel initiatives and programs to help its network of partners accelerate growth.

During the opening keynote speech, Keith Goodwin, senior vice-president of Cisco's Worldwide Partner Organization at Cisco, encouraged partners to "write the rules and own the game."

At this time, the vendor also announced new initiatives around collaboration, video, the virtualized data centre, and the cloud.