Robin Bloor

Will Cisco’s 'Big Switch' Provoke a New Technology War?

I'm impressed with all the feedback concerning competitive product. The article was never supposed to offer any kind of comparison between Cisco and its competitors (and it doesn't). Rumor has it that Cisco brought its Nexus announcement forward to steal thunder from Brocade. It may well turn out that some of Cisco's competitors outsmart and outmarket the giant. The whole point of my article/blog posting was to focus on the fact that the networking market is colliding with the server market to the advantage of the networking vendors. This is probably positive for all the networking vendors who can hold their own. It is not positive for the sever vendor.