Comments on: HP Hit Cisco First, Not the Other Way Round.

By: CISCO & HP War? « Scale Network's Blog

CISCO & HP War? « Scale Network's Blog — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 20:47:43 +0000

[…] the intersection of compute, storage and networking. HP’s initial networking move with ProCurve, and Cisco’s subsequent aggressive entry into servers; along with the VCE announcement has […]

By: What might it mean if Cisco Dumps HP As Certified Partner ? – Gestalt IT

What might it mean if Cisco Dumps HP As Certified Partner ? – Gestalt IT — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 18:00:08 +0000

[…] my opinion that HP started the fight about three or four years ago when they restarted their Procurve networking […]

By: HP and Cisco: Check; Not Check Mate « Wikibon Blog

HP and Cisco: Check; Not Check Mate « Wikibon Blog — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 05:51:50 +0000

By: What might it mean if Cisco Dumps HP As Certified Partner ? | My Etherealmind

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 21:48:09 +0000

[…] my opinion that HP started the fight about three or four years ago when they restarted their Procurve networking products. ProCurve — why did HP start […]

By: RonV

RonV — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 05:23:48 +0000

Funny reading this. As a service provider network engineer, (not trying to bash HP), but I can honestly say that 90% of the HP ProCurve switches we have purchased have HALF the uptime of our Cisco’s. You get what you pay for. My dept bought them upon a cost vs. feature decision. Too bad that we had to go back and replace some of them with good old reliable Cisco’s. Just my 2 cents.

By: John the plumber? « A Network Virtualization Blog

John the plumber? « A Network Virtualization Blog — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 20:02:16 +0000

[…] Greg Ferro pointed out that it is really not HP, who strikes back, but Cisco. Over the last years HP ProCurve switches have gained market share. Personally have seen many brand new VMware environments that where sold by an HP team and included HP blades and HP ProCurve switches. […]

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:58:18 +0000

Yep. This has been a long time coming IMO, ever since the HP/Compaq deal. Unfortunately, Cisco was already rebranding Compaq servers at that time and were locked in at that point. If you look far enough back, the Dell servers were supported at one point to run your Cisco UC apps on, but they were competing against them in the LAN switching area, so they got dropped too. Wonder how long before Cisco starts shipping UC on their own servers now.