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Top 5 Things About Cisco “Viral” Announcement

October 30, 2008 by Greg Ferro · 4 Comments 


Top 5 things about “viral mar­ket­ing” announce­ment today

5 — Another product escaped from the lab early and they haven’t been able to catch. It will be ready for use in two or three years time.

4 — That it will use “Microsoft-​​style stand­ards” (that are almost, but not quite the actual stand­ard e.g. Data Centre Ehternet®) to ensure that mar­ket­ing depart­ment can crow about ‘leadership’.

3 — It will have vir­tu­al­isa­tion buzzwords stuck all over it. Very good chance of cloud com­put­ing buzzwords for extra bingo oppor­tun­it­ies. In fact, its pos­sible that there is no actual product at all, just buzz­ing about Cloud Computing.

2 — Whatever it is, it will help to solve the busi­ness prob­lems of the Credit Crunch by sav­ing you money.

Yeah, thats in every product announce­ment, but they will say it any­way. Insert “wah wah wah” noises when read­ing. It will also improve IT oper­a­tions as well. Quite how that will hap­pen is not clear.…

1 — CiscoWorks man­age­ment tools are get­ting a massive over­haul and now they will actu­ally do some­thing useful.

Boom boom. :-)

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4 Responses to “Top 5 Things About Cisco “Viral” Announcement”
  1. No.1 would be nice but I think their annouce­ment will be related to what Internetwork Expert will be announ­cing :-)

  2. You for­got the “Green ini­ti­at­ive” in com­bin­a­tion with #2.

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