Top 5 Things About the Cisco Data Centre 3.0 Announcement Today [Humour]

1. That Cisco will con­tinue to mis­spell the word “Center”, when every­one knows that is cor­rectly spelled “Centre”.
2. That net­work engin­eers are going to be won­der­ing if Cisco is still going to be selling routers next year ? First Linksys home net­work kit, and now serv­ers. What is Cisco focus­sing on ?
3. That the same net­work engin­eers can’t wait to buy those serv­ers for net­work oper­a­tions server for run­ning Cacti and Ciscoworks. Not for loy­alty, or for any other reason than to piss off the Server Huggers.

   Oh, and to avoid ask­ing them to do trivial tasks like patch an OS and wait­ing 5 weeks.

4. That Cisco serv­ers will only be cer­ti­fied to run VMWare. And there won’t be any sup­port for MS Windows, or Linux or any other OS on the platform.
5. That the HP /​ IBM /​ Dell Sales reps will vis­it­ing the Networking Team in the next few weeks to sound them out about whether they are plan­ning any­thing with this new kit. Start plan­ning for some free lunches

Pontification

But more ser­i­ously. Here are my pro­gnost­ic­a­tions for the day, I have no fore­know­ledge or insight into what really will hap­pen, frankly, with the level of hype I am not sure that any rational dis­cus­sion is going to be possible.

1. Cisco is going to announce some server hard­ware, like really BIG hard­ware with lots of CPU/​MEMORY with some type of Fancy IO sys­tem. It will only run VMware. They are not going head to head with HP & IBM on Systems.
2. The mes­sage will clearly say that they are no going head to head with HP and IBM. And no ana­lysts will believe them.
3. That Cisco will announce they have bought more stock in VMware, prob­ably with that $4 bil­lion they raised a few weeks ago
4. The serv­ers are going to be full of shiny, non-​​standard FCoE and DCE stuff, plus some Nexus 1000V for a deep plunge VMWare plat­form. They will only be com­pat­ible with Nexus 5000/​2000 in the net­work. (Oh ok, they will plug in to nor­mal switches, but what would be the point)
5. That they will also announce a new ver­sion vFrame, vFrame 3.0 that will fully auto­mated pro­vi­sion of vir­tual machines, fire­walls, load bal­an­cers. and the entire net­work stack. And still no one will under­stand it.

They will then pro­claim that they have an Enterprise Cloud Computer sys­tem. In fact, you can bet that “Cloud Computing” will be heard so often that it just might, might I tell you, wear the term out.

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