What do people think of the future of the data center business? Growing? Dying?
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Data center will be growing, but I don't know about Cisco though, because all the major players are designing their own routers and switches.
Cloud is the new data center. Amazon, Google and Microsoft can run the DC's better than Cisco or anyone else, so why buy an bunch of servers that will be obsolete in a year or two and hire a bunch engineers to run it for you.
HPE is winning in the hybrid datacenter! Just ask the recently riffed thousands of loyal employees....
Datacenter business is nothing to worry about ....🤨
You mean like Apple? A few years back, they were touting their search affiliation with DuckDuckGo and how they were a champion for privacy. They even made videos and issued reams of press releases.
Roll on a couple of years and Apple sells Google prime position in search on their platform for $12,000,000,000 per year! Not a peep on DDG. In fact, all the videos of the original announcement have been taken down and unofficial copies issued with take down orders for copyright infringement.
Oh, and then those Press Releases were taken out of the Google search engine.
So, it never happened!! 1984 - here we are!
Apple - because we value your privacy. A lot. So much that we change people a fortune to buy it.
@dal+17JhDw9c agreed until companies face tougher punishments for data breaches , there's little reason to spend big on security in some areas. They get a slap on the wrist in most cases
The Cloud just means someone else's Data Center.
But a better question might be why do you need more Cisco in the Cloud than what is already there?
Cisco does not have cloud services like AWS or GCP.
What happened is Cisco heard Cloud and said, 'hey, we can charge more money for that. Let's come up with an acronym'.
And they called it APIC-EM.
Ka-Ching!!
But, are customer's buying it?
Definitely been disrupted by Cloud.
But I have many customers exit the public cloud after the bills kept creeping up. I see growth in Hyperconverged Infra like HyperFlex, Nutanix, VxRail, ...
Does "Data Center" really mean "Data Center" anymore?
Name of the game is to be able to backup, restore, and move the VM around.
Run it in the cloud as prod.
Have a backup stage and dev.
Make sure you can pull the cloud VM back inside your firewall and run it if the crud hits the fan.
Cisco can't create new products and services internally, we are built to sell rebranded acquired products. Our corporate culture cares about stock buybacks, dividends, and building government relationships. This is not sustainable.
A "tech" company can't have a 1980's Soviet Union culture and expect to compete. Cisco requires a government mandated monopoly/duopoly to remain stagnant.
Dying. The big players are finding they can do it themselves. They don't need the jacked up prices of Lenovo, Cisco, HP, etc. Cisco along with IBM and others missed the boat and tied themselves to the anchor being tossed overboard.
Private or "Hybrid" Data Centers sounds like something IBM would sell on a tv commercial. Do large enterprises actually care about security? Adobe had a massive cyber security breach and was fined $2.1 million.
Data breach fines are much cheaper than caring about security. Ask Target, Ebay, Linkedin...
How about the private Data Centers? I don’t see that need is going away. The medium/large enterprises still prefers to keep their data in private DCs for security, latency, resiliency, etc.
@pqs+17JhDw9c, maybe 5 years. Some even said three and half years.
are you joking, with all data centers moving to cloud who needs switches and routers down the road. i bet you cisco will not exist as it is now in 10 years
AWS/Azure are the present and future... not Cisco
No cloud no party.