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I have great respect for my previous company, Cisco Systems, and truly believe that the company has successfully brought a disruptive approach of applying network technologies to answer major business challenges.
Working at Cisco was like being conferred with an honorary doctorate from an Ivy League school in engineering, management, leadership and entrepreneurship simultaneously . The experience of working in multiple lines of businesses was helpful in shaping the mindset on how best to manage innovations and productize them so that it was mutually beneficial to the customers and the company. This productization often required an intense validation process, which resulted occasionally in some really cool technology ideas not ever seeing the light of day. Thoughts presented for the rest of this blog are an attempt to share my experience and possibly dispel some myths in the industry.
Myth – One Vendor Can Answer All Networking Requirements
Network vendors for the longest time have enjoyed a monopoly (or duopoly). If an organization had some IT infrastructure requirements, there were a handful of vendors that would satisfy all their needs. This was great for everyone! As a measure of risk mitigation, a famous unwritten policy surfaced that “you would not lose your Continue reading
Nokia hires an ex-Cisco exec; Cyan's 100G win; CradlePoint's Series B; and more.
Porting to Intel and Virtual Machines is a technical implementation detail, not a business solution.
HP developed a simple six-question NFV survey in order for users to weigh in on NFV issues, as well as the opportunity to find answers to all of your NFV questions. Take it now!
We had a great time showcasing the CloudOOP Big Data Pod at HIMSS this week with our new partner, PSSC Labs. We are back in Nashua and the team is busy gearing up for Interop 2015 in Las Vegas. CEO Rich Napolitano and other members of the Plexxi team will be at the show from April 28–30 at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center. We have a lineup of demos you will not want to miss. Drop us a line on Twitter or email [email protected] if you are interested in meeting with the team at the show. We’ll see you there!
Below please find a few of our top picks for our favorite news articles of the week. Have a great weekend!
Enterprise Networking Planet: Optimizing SDN for the Coming Data Deluge
By Arthur Cole
There are two ways of looking at the state of enterprise technology today. Either challenges like Big Data and the Internet of Things are fueling the development of the cloud and software defined infrastructure, or cloud and SDx development are driving Big Data and the IoT. Either way, these twin forces affecting Information Technology have at least given the enterprise a goal and the means Continue reading