Cisco, one of the vendors we’ve been watching on the path toward what we think is the critical symbiosis of the cloud and OpenFlow/SDN, has blogged (http://blogs.cisco.com/news/is-it-just-sdn/) about their view of the subject. I’m happy they did, but I confess to being a little confused by what they said. It seems that Cisco is arguing…
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Google: Do New Evil or Do New Things?
Google is making news, again, for its left-of-center management practices. The company turned in an exceptionally good quarter that beat estimates handily, and at the same time it announced it would be doing a 2:1 stock split but one that created only non-voting shares. The goal, obviously and as the company admitted, was to prevent…
Taking Tech Temperature, Pre-Earnings.
Euphonic, huh? Well, earnings season is about to take off, which means we’ll likely have more financial results to review than tech bombshells. Some companies are working to get their stuff out before they go quiet in their pre-earnings period, though, and one of them is HP. After seeming to ignore the cloud, they now…
Why Cisco’s Cloud Spin-In May Not Be Enough
The fate of the cloud is also the fate of the network vendors, as I’ve noted before. There is nothing that will stop the use of OpenFlow and SDNs for data center networking, and while arguments that “merchant silicon” can produce the optimum OpenFlow switch are false, it’s true that commodity switches could produce results…
Is “Ad-Sponsored” Joining “Free” in the Myth Category?
Let’s face reality here. For a decade now, we’ve had a vision of the future as one of a romp through a vast collection of entertainment, funded by advertising that we all try to never notice. The fact is that all the ad metrics in the world don’t prove that anyone actually sees an ad,…
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Policy on Advertising, Submissions, etc.
There’s a lot of complicated wording in these areas on many sites, all sorts of talk about click-throughs and what constitutes an actual serving of an ad, and how someone might suggest a topic. Well, we have good news for you. Our own situation is a lot simpler. We absolutely do not accept ads, and…
Finding the Golden Link
This week’s activity seems to me to be pointing to the future course of network equipment. On the one hand, we have Huawei reporting $32 billion in sales, good growth year over year, and demonstrating that networking from their perspective is a value market. On the other hand, we have Cisco making moves (including its…
OpenFlow: To the Cloud?
If demand-side issues are driving changes in the industry, then it’s fair to ask where the industry is going. We talked yesterday about the major drivers, and today I want to talk about the major technology shifts a bit more. In particular, I want to make the connection between the changes in opportunity and the…
Cut Cords, Cost-Based Clouds? Not.
Friday’s usually a bit of a slow news day, and so it’s often a good day to recap some things that were pushed to the rear of the interest queue by other events. There are a couple that fit this category that I’d like to explore a bit today, and the first two come from…