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Cisco Systems is looking to use its Cius tablet to give businesses a mobile platform for collaboration. Cisco showed off the Cius, with its 7-inch screen, at the Cisco Live event. The device won't be ready for general availability until the first quarter of 2011.
Collaboration is taking off, and the Android smart phone OS is now moving up the chain to enterprise tablets. Would you consider deploying a fleet of 7-inch touchscreen devices to your employees, in lieu of laptops or bulkier tablet devices? Sound off in our comments section.
eWeek reports:
Cisco Systems is unveiling an Android-based tablet PC designed as a mobile communications and collaboration platform for businesses.
At its Cisco Live event June 29 in Las Vegas, company officials showed off the Cisco Cius, the latest addition to a growing collaboration portfolio that includes WebEx, TelePresence and Quad.
The Cius will give businesses a lightweight mobile device that will integrate with all of those Cisco collaboration technologies and be managed by Cisco's Unified Communications Manager software and offer enterprise-level security.
It also opens up another avenue through which businesses and their employees can access the growing Android application store, and will help expand that selection of applications by giving developers Cisco collaboration APIs through an SDK (software developer kit).
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