Phil Dewey

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?

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