Cisco’s comments on its new “Application-Centric Infrastructure” vision is yet another proof point for my argument that Cisco has successfully played the weaknesses of SDN players against them. In military tactics, seizing the high ground is a maxim. So it is in marketing, and Cisco has done that with finesse. You can harp on about…
Cisco’s comments on its new “Application-Centric Infrastructure” vision is yet another proof point for my argument that Cisco has successfully played the weaknesses of SDN players against them. In military tactics, seizing the high ground is a maxim. So it is in marketing, and Cisco has done that with finesse. You can harp on about…
The SDN game never ends, possibly because nobody wants to diss a good market hype wave while it still has momentum, and possibly because there’s still room to do something useful given the rather vague utility of some current strategies. In any case, PLUMgrid has joined the fray with an offering they call “Virtual Network…
The SDN game never ends, possibly because nobody wants to diss a good market hype wave while it still has momentum, and possibly because there’s still room to do something useful given the rather vague utility of some current strategies. In any case, PLUMgrid has joined the fray with an offering they call “Virtual Network…
Cisco has used its Cisco Live event to buttress its Open Network Environment and the onePK API set that’s designed to address the SDN and NFV space. In the move, Cisco is showing us why they’re able to grow sales when others are under pressure, and also why the notion of a network revolution isn’t…
Cisco has used its Cisco Live event to buttress its Open Network Environment and the onePK API set that’s designed to address the SDN and NFV space. In the move, Cisco is showing us why they’re able to grow sales when others are under pressure, and also why the notion of a network revolution isn’t…
Who’d have thought that Google and Facebook and Netflix might be the face of competition for network vendors? Well, it’s happening, and while the risk isn’t acute at this point for reasons I’ll get into, the actions of these three OTT giants is a symptom of the issues that face networking and network equipment. Google…
Who’d have thought that Google and Facebook and Netflix might be the face of competition for network vendors? Well, it’s happening, and while the risk isn’t acute at this point for reasons I’ll get into, the actions of these three OTT giants is a symptom of the issues that face networking and network equipment. Google…
Oracle announced their numbers yesterday, and the company took a hit for having a soft quarter from a revenue perspective. As has been the case for quite a few quarters, hardware sales were soft (though Oracle said they saw signs that the slip would reverse shortly) except in the appliance area. Software had some issues…
With IBM announcing a bunch of “C-suite” analytics tools designed for the cloud and GE getting into big-data analytics, it’s hard not to think that we’re deep in the “build-the-buzz-meaning-hype” phase of big data. Well, did we expect the market to be rational? After all, we’ve pretty much washed every erg of attention we could…