HDS aligns its unified computing strategy with Microsoft; takes on Cisco/EMC
By Tarry Singh at 20 April, 2010, 1:29 am
With Hyper-V as a bold statement in its partnership, HDS is making clear that it does not want to be left behind. HDS has now signalled it is entering the lists against the VCE coalition and its V-Blocks (VMware, Cisco and EMC), HP and its Matrix, IBM and Oracle with its app-to-storage integrated stack. Dell [...]
Read More >>HP Networking emerges; ProCurve and 3Com to be rebranded
By Tarry Singh at 20 April, 2010, 1:24 am
As HP moves closer to absorbing its giant EDS acquisition, its real all-round play emerges. With HP Networking, it goes directly after Cisco which lacks system integration, data center outsourcing and other services market presence. Cisco is still working on its Acadia initiative which still only involves software/hardware vendors like VMware and EMC, which certianly [...]
Read More >>Cisco struggles to understand the consumer; Flip slideHD gets poor review by Gizmodo
By Tarry Singh at 13 April, 2010, 2:20 pm
They say you are as good as the goods you sold. Cisco is good at selling networking gear and all other strategies on Consumer experience, Server racket, Human network is something Cisco will fail miserably by 2015. I loved the Mino as it really did a good job in sliding into my jacket without making [...]
Read More >>Swedish Telco, TeliaSonera and Cisco sign a Cloud Computing deal
By Tarry Singh at 26 March, 2010, 9:58 am
What ever that deal is supposed to deliver is yet to b seen. Can it deliver the promise of the cloud? We all know* what the Telco’s are currently undergoing in terms of true computing capacity for their own infrastructure, and serving cloud capacity for new customers could be very challenging. What they say themselves [...]
Read More >>Custom vBlock for Voddler: Cisco UCS, RHEV with KVM and IBM XIV storage!
By Tarry Singh at 12 March, 2010, 2:55 am
Voddler gives us all two simple things to take away home: – Get the best of breed and make your own High-Density Mix – Understand your business, listen to your own staff and avoid sales pitches Voddler would be a perfect candidate, you might think, for the pre-integrated stacks of servers, storage and management software [...]
Read More >>Cisco goes after Service Providers with the IaaS stack
By Tarry Singh at 27 January, 2010, 2:11 pm
Neat work and good to see that Cisco is going after the market itself. Sometimes you have to do things on your own. Anyways check out their Interactive Book as well to get a quick idea. Benefits: Access to world-class IT services on-demand Highly efficient, low-cost services without up-front investment Security and management provided by [...]
Read More >>Hey Cisco! HP just bought 3Com for $2.7 Bn cash!
By Tarry Singh at 12 November, 2009, 2:09 am
My keynote last night at a University — where we covered enterpreneurship, Cloud Computing and taking the charge in your own hands — where couple of biggies from Media and Entertainment industry were there, there were many interesting insights shared by reknowned experts and it was real fun. Cisco came also as a company to [...]
Read More >>Cisco, EMC to sell gear to data centers: They call it a “vBlock” (Ugh)
By Tarry Singh at 2 November, 2009, 1:18 am
First of all: They should have chosen some other name, this whole vThing has gone too far. Maybe they could have chosen Compute VDC/ Mobile VDC/ CloudPack or whatever. Secondly: It really is no big deal. Nothing new here since that 20% market which data centers are supposed to be the prime consumers and probably [...]
Read More >>Cisco-EMC forming a Joint Venture Company; VMware is NOT included
By Tarry Singh at 26 August, 2009, 10:34 am
Well, this love affair is so widely spoken of that I am almost tempted to think of the next move: Acquisition? Bah, we’ve gone through that over and over again. I hope someone is also talking and focusing on the customers as it is them you’ll have to sell your gear to. I’m sure confident [...]
Read More >>Cisco lays off up to 700 positions
By Tarry Singh at 17 July, 2009, 1:35 am
The company released a statement acknowledging the cuts, saying “this limited restructuring is part of our ongoing, targeted realignment of resources and was previously discussed on our fiscal second- and third-quarter 2009 earnings calls.” Cisco had said in February that it planned to cut 1,000 to 2,000 positions worldwide, in what it described as a [...]
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