Curling is a sport that involves people tossing a rock down an ice rink and then using brooms to guide it’s path. That’s a pretty apt description for employer changes in the SDN/OpenFlow space in the last few months. David Ward was leading the SDN portfolio at Juniper. Rumour has it that John Chambers saw [...]
Cisco Value in vCider Is All Programmable Networking
9th October 2012 by 7 Comments
Cisco recently bought vCider. vCider gives Cisco tools for cloud bursting and a proven network driver to deliver overlay networks. It’s a significant boost to their Programmable Networks strategy and definitely an SDN play.
The vCider technology was architecturally similar to Nicira by building tunnels overlays in a network and, in my view, many people are incorrectly misinterpreting this as the core value on the acquisition.
I would posit that there are two aspects to vCider that Cisco is likely to extract value from. 1 – Network driver in Linux. 2 – Cloud burst networking
Musing: The Dim Future of Cisco ACE & WAAS
17th September 2012 by Leave a Comment
Tony Bourke draws attention to the Barrons report that Cisco is scaling the back the ACE : Though even if it were true, it wouldn’t necessarily mean Cisco has given up on ACE. It could signal that Cisco is no longer interested in selling the ACE30 service module, preferring instead the ACE 4710 appliance and/or gearing up [...]
You Don’t Have to Hit the Ball Out of the Park to Have a Home Run
23rd August 2012 by Leave a Comment
When planning your career you need to make several path choices. And everyday work is part of taking a single step down that path. Somedays you just need to get the job finished to be a success. You don’t have to be excellent and awesome every single day. In fact, sometimes it’s preferable to finish [...]
Musing: Visio 2013 – Some Review Thoughts
28th July 2012 by 2 Comments
Somewhere in my RSS feeds I ended up looking at Visio 2013. Somehow, with all the fuss about Office 2013 it didn’t occur to me that there would be a new Visio. Visio is something of a burden and blessing. A blessing in that it works OK for network diagrams. Like a old soldering iron, [...]
IETF RFCs and Pagination. Still Necessary ?
27th July 2012 by 2 Comments
I don’t read every IETF RFC but I try look over a lot of them in my RSS reader as they are published. The IETF RFCs are all paginated like this, which is annoying. It’s not good politics to alienate the International audience this way.
Musing: Private Clouds Is Next. VMware and Nicira Is About That.
24th July 2012 by 2 Comments
It’s my personal suspicion that we might be approaching the start of the Private Cloud era. The herald is probably Microsoft getting their Office 2013 cloud package off the ground. By the time big companies, and especially Microsoft arrive, you realise that the early and exciting phases of public cloud are over.
Response: Cisco Blog – What Comes Next With Cisco and the ONF?
28th June 2012 by Leave a Comment
Omar Sultan writes on the Cisco Data & Cloud blog ….. We continue to strongly support ONF and its efforts related to SDN and our support has and will continue to been demonstrated in tangible ways. One of the elements of the Cisco ONE announcement is onePK, which is an enabling technology and one of the [...]
Watch Out Cisco. Huawei’s Coming!
7th May 2012 by 11 Comments
In this Gigaom.com piece, Stacey talks about the arrival of Huawei in America. When Huawei arrived in Europe about three/four years ago, Cisco lost a LOT of business especially when BT and other carriers changed their standard purchase to include Huawei on the approved list. Huawei had a rocky start with widely known hardware failures [...]
My Networking Beliefs
29th January 2012 by 3 Comments
Someone wrote me and asked “Greg, What do you believe is the future of Networking”. Here is my (mostly) humorous response.
