Phil Dewey

Virtualization: Expect Technology to Cross the Chasm Within Two Years

More idiotic blather from a wanna be Cisco acquisition. Motion is a small part of the issue. Sprawl is THE issue. Think 10000 servers are a challenge to manage? 1000 switches and routers got you swimming in log data? Try wrangling 80000 VMs on the same network. Current tools have not even scratched the surface of being able to handle how this much stuff gets managed. The VLAN is not the problem, the stuff riding on it is going the be a Tsunami...

Cambrian Cloud Explosions Coming

or... the hardware becomes a comoditized compute bedrock of low cost servers and switches rented from a datacenter in central Texas and the software now demands the lions share of Capex as it does what you just described.

Will Virtualization Undermine Network Equipment Vendors?

Comparing VOIP's impact on the network to Virtualization is not valid. VOIP put new, real time stresses on the network. Virtualization removes them from the LAN and puts them potentially on the WAN. The idea that there will be a valid use case for moving a VM across a wide distance is goofy (much less a running VM). Data will move the, VMs will stay where they are. Taking advantage of cheaper compute resources elsewhere will mean getting a COPY of a VM to materialize at the lowest cost facility and the data there to use it.
One won't move a VM but rather a description of it, a formula of how to construct it and the data it needs to do it's job.

The Tipping Point for Network Automation

What this means of course is that automation at the network layer is done before it gets started as the cloud provider will do that with his labor costs baked into the price of a VM. The next big thing will be automating the care an feeding of a vast sea of VMs. Fortunately the technology lends itself to this. It will be the small virtual data center and data center automation vendors who take the day here.

Cloud Wars Are on the Horizon

Greg, who do you think will be the acquired in this process?

Chambers Is Right: The Recession Will Drive Tech Innovation

If it's not obvious now it soon will be, managing a large, rapidly growing, heterogeneous, dynamic IT infrastructure is not possible. Period. Cisco has spent decades and millions trying to build intelligent network management, putting more "intelligence" into the network, yada, yada, yada. It won't work. Ever. This is why Cloud Computing will emerge as the only cost effective solution for what the marketing folks are calling "Infrastructure 2.0".

Cisco's Warrior Takes Center Stage: 5 Themes to Expect

Maybe John should talk about how he's going to raise share holder value. If the next 8 years are like the last 8 years he'll be taking an early retirement.

Cisco: Internet Traffic to Boom

The problem with this forecast is the big ISPs are doing everything in their power to keep that explosion from happening. Data Shaping, throttling of P2P traffic, high usage tiered billing are all going to kill this. Cisco is wishful thinking since they would be the main beneficiary of this kind of growth.

Under The Radar News - Monday

Benioff approached Cisco last October so this is old news. Given the Webex deal was done in 10 days and that they are now pitching Oracle it doesn't look good for a Cisco/Salesforce marriage

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

The bottleneck always has been and always will be software. For all the lightning fast speeds and feeds one inefficient PL/SQL in a DB will render this gleaming hunk of titanium a frustrated, power burning noise maker. The network guys never look at a system holistically and hence will never solve the problem.