A day after Motorola (NYSE: MOT) announced that its high profile CTO was leaving, she has joined Cisco (NSDQ: CSCO) as its next CTO. Padmasree Warrior will help usher in its vision for more connected products, Cisco said. She told WSJ that she wants Cisco to “lead the industry in the second phase of Internet evolution, and a main focus will be to look at collaboration.” She takes a position once filled by Charlie Giancarlo, who was promoted to chief development officer and is seen as a potential successor to CEO John Chambers.

As the WSJ story says, Warrior wanted to develop her vision of “seamless mobility” at Moto, meaning connected devices to share the same video, voice and data for improved communication. But Motorola had bigger troubles of fixing its troubled core cellphone business. Her talents may find a more receptive home at Cisco, the story says.