27 August 2010

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Cisco Cius – That’s Not Innovation, It’s ME TOO.

3 July 2010 By Greg Ferro 10 Comments

So Cisco “announced” the Cius Android tablet. It’s not innovation. It’s just a cheap knockoff that’s easy to do.

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Market Positioning Acadia, EMC, Cisco and the Whole vBlock Idea

17 May 2010 By Greg Ferro 6 Comments
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So a while back, Cisco, VMWare and EMC announced that they are forming a partnership to co-operatively sell and support products in a joint venture named Acadia. Selected engineers and sales grunts, USD$200 million bucks and “no large customer left untouched” door to door marketing campaign. Is there anything to it ?

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Outburst: Brocade – What’s Their Direction ?

19 April 2010 By Greg Ferro 10 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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If I Can’t Fix It, I’ll Break It. And That’s OK, It Needed Fixing Anyway.

7 March 2010 By Greg Ferro 12 Comments
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When explaining outage risks in a change review, I often need to grit my teeth and say quietly to myself…..

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The Harbinger of Death for PABX and IP Telephony

2 March 2010 By Greg Ferro 5 Comments
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Unlimited voice/text/data plans in the UK signal the end of Legacy and IP Telephony market as we know it.

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Opinion: Observations on CCNP Changes and New CCIE SP Ops

25 January 2010 By Greg Ferro 1 Comment
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Some observations on what the changes to the CCNP and CCIE programs tell us about Cisco intentions for their certification programs.

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On Books, E-Books, Copyright and Author Return

15 January 2010 By Greg Ferro 14 Comments

Ivan Pepelnjak has good rant about people stealing books.

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How Are You Feeling About Cisco ?

1 December 2009 By Greg Ferro 7 Comments

Some people have pointed out that I have been Cisco bashing lately. Let’s check if it’s just me.

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Drobo – Guessing How BeyondRAID Creates Space and Volumes

23 November 2009 By Greg Ferro 17 Comments

I got a presentation from the Drobo on their new products, but I find the idea of beyondRAID and their idea of dynamically re-architecting the drive array to find the optimum and redundant configuration to be absolutely fascinating.

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Rant: People Are Not Valuable or Why I Don’t Attend Office Parties

19 November 2009 By Greg Ferro 16 Comments

I am often asked to attend parties with my co-workers for people who are leaving, Christmas or team parties. Then I realised how little it really mattered and got on with my life.

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Cisco, EMC, VMware – Living Together Isn’t the Same as Married

4 November 2009 By Greg Ferro 2 Comments

A bunch of CEO’s promising to play ‘nice’ with each others toys is not a convincing marketing exercise. Cisco and EMC/VMware need to merge to get big enough to compete with HP / IBM.

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Rant:My Growing Dislike of “Cross Marketing”

17 August 2009 By Greg Ferro Leave a Comment

I purchase a new product / thing / software. I delight in opening / using / starting it for the first time. Then, an advertisement spews up for a related product. Lousy douchetards, if I wanted that, I would have bought it.

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My Thoughts on Google ChromeOS Mean for Networking ?

8 July 2009 By Greg Ferro Leave a Comment

Google’s ChromeOS means a return to standards based networking, and reducing the Microsoft monopoly. Plus cheap netbooks. A quick take on what I’m thinking.

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Cisco CCIE 360 Program – Press Here to Add to Cart

15 April 2009 By Greg Ferro 4 Comments
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I saw Cisco 3660 CCIE study program in an online store today. It struck me as poor value for money. Here’s why…

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Cisco Announces Intent to Acquire Tidal Software, Inc. – Cisco Systems

9 April 2009 By Greg Ferro 2 Comments

Is Cisco buying up Cloud Computing software ?

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The Greatest Risk to Cloud Computing ? The Vista Effect.

22 March 2009 By Greg Ferro 2 Comments

Everyday brings news of another failure of a “Cloud Computing” service. It won’t take much in the current economic climate for the market to take a “Vista view” and not buy it.

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How Help Desk SLA’s Lie – “Four Hour Response” My Butt.

14 February 2009 By Greg Ferro 9 Comments

I once had to contact an outsourced Help Desk on an urgent matter. I rang the Help Desk and logged my call with the operator. I confirmed that there was a four hour response. Yeah, right, it took 12 hours to fix it.

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Satyam Fraud – Shakes Foundation of Cloud Computing ?

8 January 2009 By Greg Ferro 1 Comment

Outsourcing is under threat when one of the big five Indian outsourcing companies is a fraud. And if you think that only the CEO is involved (as he claims) then I have a bridge to sell you. UPDATE: The CFO has gone missing as well as the CEO.

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