VMworld 2009: VMware! Shutting HP out, is it worth the risk?

Update 2 28th June 2009: After the whole twitter world getting a bit fired up by this post I just want to say one thing of all the possible [and unrealistic, according to some, circumstances] that the following are the observations I can make now:
1. Cisco doing what it should be doing: Cisco is and [...]

HP+Alcatel 10 Yr Deal: Should Cisco worry or hurry?

One analyst said the alliance was a smart move by HP, which is finding itself in a heated competition with Cisco in the data center, and also needs to catch up to Cisco and IBM in the area of cloud computing.
Cisco, long known for its networking capabilities, made a significant step into the data center [...]

Logicalis to sell Cisco UCS boxes in UK

Slough, 10 June 2009 – Logicalis UK announced today that it has achieved Data Centre Unified Computing Authorised Technology Provider (ATP) status from Cisco.  This designation recognises Logicalis as having the fulfilled the training and program prerequisites to sell, deploy and support the Cisco Unified Computing System in the UK.

The Cisco Unified Computing System unites [...]

M&A Advisory: Cisco should pursue Citrix

Fool’s advice is what I’d give John. Citrix is (strategically) in the same position as Sun. Sun has loads of cool stuff to really kick some asses, it just needed a daddy. Citrix could benefit massively by being under Cisco’s arm. And hey don’t forget Citrix are the Xen dudes. They will eventually rock the [...]

Networking cool cat Vyatta is now Citrix Ready!

Belmont, CA – 2009-06-09 05:00:00 – Vyatta, the leader in open networking and network virtualization, today announced it has joined the Citrix Ready™ product verification program to create solutions for customers deploying cloud computing infrastructure. The two companies have verified product compatibility between Vyatta’s open networking solutions and the Citrix Cloud Center(C3) product family to [...]

Cisco dishes out Rack mountable servers with extensive memory UCS C 250M1

It’s got Slashdotted as well.
Cisco VP of Marketing Soni Jiandani said many customers are interested in the memory expansion capabilities of the B-Series Blade. Cisco has boosted the memory capacity of the Xeon 5500, using a custom ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) to provide the processor with a four-fold increase in the number of memory [...]

Barrons: Cisco tops the DOW; future could be challenging

I have been collecting a lot of exciting data to write a detailed article on likening Cisco, Ericsson’s to the cool generation which is surely going to find itself in troubled waters by 2018. For now I liked this article at Barron’s. Good thing of such troublesome articles is that it can re-awaken the tired [...]

VMware continues to lose key executives

Alessandro reporting more execs who jumped ship. Last time I spoke to Reza (at VMworld) he seemed pretty lukewarm ab out his stay at VMware. As you can also see in the comments Kate Hutchison too left. We did observe in our previous post how the new COO would be removing Kate (that was the [...]

Cisco’s march towards Unified Cloud Workloads Automation; Acquires Tidal Software

Today we may have discussions of Cisco’s wanting to buy VMware and as I’ve said in the past, that window of opportunity may be passing for those holding on too close to VMware (read EMC) and soon with virtualization getting cheaper and all those xMotion capabilities getting into the fabric, VMware may be one of [...]

Nexus, FCoE and ESX 4.0: Cool deployment diagram

I guess consultants would really get horny looking at the fonts, colors and the toolkit brad used. And hopefully he and other consultants out there at Cisco will also help deploy it as coolly as the deployment diagram. We’ll wait and see. Apparently the industry is going to wait patiently till all the brouhaha around [...]