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Cisco Fights The Merchant Network Chip Makers On Their Own Turf
There is nothing wrong with buying a compute, storage, or networking appliance where the ASICs and software both come from the same supplier. …
Cisco
Cloud
Like Other OEM Incumbents, Cisco Steals The Cloud Playbook
If you can’t beat the cloud, you had better steal all of its best ideas. …
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This Switcheroo Doesn’t Get Old
Any company that holds more than a quarter of a market – by money or shipments – is doing pretty well. …
Compute
Staking A Claim In The Cloud And At The Edge
The center of gravity for data is continuing to shift from core datacenters to other parts well beyond the walls of those facilities. …
AI
Unifying Big Data And Machine Learning, Cisco Style
It doesn’t take a machine learning algorithm to predict that server makers are trying to cash in on the machine learning revolution at the major nexus points on the global Internet. …
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A Deep Dive Into Cisco’s Use Of Merchant Switch Chips
The incumbent switch makers of the world could learn a thing or two from the server racket. …
Compute
Cisco Gets Modular With Servers In Epyc Fashion
Believe it or not, Cisco Systems has a bunch of customers for its UCS blade and rack servers that are in the gaming industry, which has its share of near-hyperscale players who have widely geographically distributed clusters spread around the globe so players can get very low latency access over the Internet to games running on that infrastructure. …
Cloud
The Server Boom Town Is Built On High Component Prices
On the face of it, if you just look at the top level numbers, the server market is booming like we have not seen since the recovery in the wake of the Great Recession for a few quarters here and there between late 2009 and early 2011. …
Compute
Cisco’s Wide And Deep Embrace Of Kubernetes
As enterprises continue to spread their workloads around – keeping some in their core datacenters while placing others in either private clouds or sprinkling them among disparate public clouds – the portability, visibility and management of those applications becomes an issue. …
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Networking With Intent
Networking has always been the laggard in the enterprise datacenter. As servers and then storage appliances became increasingly virtualized and disaggregated over the past 15 years or so, the network stubbornly stuck with the appliance model, closed and proprietary. …