Occasionally I’d invite a vendor speaker (usually working for an interesting startup) to present in my Data Center Fabrics webinar series. Dan Backman from Plexxi was talking about affinity networking in 2013, and in the May 2015 update session we’ll have Dinesh Dutt from Cumulus Networks talking about their software platform, architectures you can build with whitebox (or britebox) switches running Cumulus Linux, exciting network automation options, and cool new features they’re constantly adding to their software.
Chuck Robbins is no puppet for Cisco's soon-to-be executive chairman.
No Rob Lloyd? No Gary Moore? No matter; Chuck Robbins was still a strong internal candidate for CEO.