Outbursts — My EtherealMind

Wired Says Cloud Means Better Security by Marketing

6th December 2011 By Greg Ferro 2 Comments

Oh my.

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Knowledge + Experience = Wisdom

12th August 2011 By Greg Ferro 3 Comments

Knowledge + Experience leads to Wisdom

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Outburst: VMware Networking Blog: vSphere 5 New Networking Features – Score D Minus – Must Improv

5th August 2011 By Greg Ferro 13 Comments

The VMware networking blog talks about the new networking features in vSphere 5. Well, talk would be overstating it. Mention, maybe. Post It Note, perhaps.

In fact, you could probably burp out the feature list on a single beer.

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Rant: Who Is Cisco’s Customer ? Me or the Reseller ?

28th July 2011 By Greg Ferro 7 Comments

I resent the fact that Cisco partners get more information than Customers on Cisco’s website. Shows you who Cisco thinks the Customer really is.

What special powers do resellers have that makes them more effective ?

How does withholding information from Customers give a better outcome ?

Me ? Many resellers are not competent enough to be business and need a headstart to be useful to customers. Without some sort of “special needs” assistance, they wouldn’t be in the race.

Too harsh ? IBM and HP don’t rely on resellers to win business. Why does Cisco ?

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Outburst: Oh Really ?! Telstra Throws AU$800m at Clouds – The Register.

17th June 2011 By Greg Ferro 5 Comments

Oh, wow. Look at that — a little bit of rounding and you have $800 million. Anyone want to take a bet that 100% growth every year for five years is grossly unlikely ?

Do you think that allocating 0.01% of their gross revenue to a “cloud” project is big money ? Then consider that their broadband rollout projects is measured in the billions, every year.

Not such a big cloud project at all. Not even really committed. Pocket money at best for some executive who convinced the business it’s the “next big thing”. Compare this with the money spent at Amazon / Google / Facebook for a single data center.

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Cisco – Cloud Ready Data Centre Webcast – Review

13th April 2011 By Greg Ferro 3 Comments

As a customer, I watched about the first twenty or so minutes of the Cisco Data Center “Cloud Ready” webcast before it got too uncomfortable to continue. Really, it wasn’t comfortable or interesting viewing at all.

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Use of the Term ‘Engineers’, IET and Cisco.

26th October 2010 By Greg Ferro 4 Comments

Someone has popped out the tiresome “you aren’t engineers” issue over at Packetlife. In simple fact, provided you have passed certain qualifications, you certainly are recognised as an engineer.

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Outburst: Brocade – What’s Their Direction ?

19th April 2010 By Greg Ferro 19 Comments

I haven’t got any idea what Brocade is going to do next. Why would I buy their products when I can’t see the future ?

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Is an iPad Heavy ? Not for Me.

14th April 2010 By Greg Ferro 7 Comments

A number of “pundits” have commented that the iPad is too heavy. Like all things, your actual experience depends on your own situation.

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Outbursts for 13 April 2010

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