True or false? What are your thoughts?
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Cisco has been dying. Their devnet program is a joke. The devnet cert testing is develop so you don’t pass. The devnet cert have questions that are not in the blue print. For example, they have tons of questions on AWS and transit gateways.
Why isn’t Cisco Legal hunting down all the big sales guys tacking trade secrets!
What trade secrets? How to sell boxes? The world has passed Cisco by. Cisco is still trying to figure out how to become a software provider – and they just can't figure it out. There's no unified software strategy, there's no unified licensing strategy. They can't even unify a routing OS. Innovation stopped over a decade ago. The software is buggy. There's product overlap, 5 times over. The UI's all s—. The APIs are all different.
The cloud providers of the world (GCP, AWS, Azure) are solving a completely different problem for customers than Cisco can. The cloud is about rapidly deploying applications at scale. Its about not having to go to your local IT department to cut a ticket that will take them a week (or more) to turn up a VM for you. And that's if they have the capacity to do it. Its about getting large scale applications to talk to each other easily, rather than requiring a Networking team to put a change-control request in to assign a VLAN to your apps. or open a port on a firewall. The cloud is about leveraging native services to do things like data collection, analytics, machine learning, security automation, and elastic ramping... rather than needing to be a data scientist, security specialist, or data center architect. All at the flip of a switch, instantly, and on-demand.
Cisco is trying to sell the customers "stuff". That stuff is still mostly boxes, or the virtualized versions of them. There's SOME software, but its clunky. There's been some interesting acquisitions, but their technology stagnates soon after the close.
The cloud / software business is far different from how Cisco operates. Ask anybody who has left. They often have a sizable learning curve, not just technologically, but from a business standpoint. Multi-year SaaS agreements are complex.
If you're at Cisco, you're not competing with the cloud. You're cemented to the ground looking up at all of the clouds passing you by.
Cisco is gonna buy AWS, I heard this from confidential rumors.
LOL :~)
Cisco is gonna buy AWS, I heard this from confidential rumors.
Former Cisco guy here – I'm at AWS now. We don't consider Cisco a competitor. It is seriously not something we think about.
Customers want to be able spin up services quickly, securely, and at scale... that's our game. We consider Cisco a partner. You guys connect the customers to us.
Can’t wait for Cisco to die. A garbage arrogant company makes junk firewalls (FirePower) useless cloud managed softwares (runs on AWS) just glorified orchestrators and buggy.
Cisco has no cloud offering
But we tried to have one. And failed miserably at it.
From online bookseller to being a tech disruptor. Cisco is a really big dinosaur compared to AWS.
To make it even worse, they also drank our milkshake!
"AWS Ate Our Lunch". There–fixed it for you.
Why isn’t Cisco Legal hunting down all the big sales guys tacking trade secrets!
The competent Meraki employees departed for Samsara years ago. Meraki is filled with charismatic sales people now.
Cisco only provides SaaS and not IaaS which Amazon does. But Cisco Meraki is a disaster after I interviewed by phone with members of their cloud team. I won't be applying to more roles their in the near future.
Depends how you look at it. We should have had a big piece of the pie, and we got a ZILCH!
Another one bites the dust: Cisco discontinues its $1B cloud initiative as AWS, Azure and others expand
https://outline.com/YcCH5P
Cisco has no cloud offering
arista is taking market shares from cisco
AWS runs on CISCO gears
False. We don't even compete in that area.
Cisco isn't even a competitor. Like comparing apples and ferris wheels. Both round.... that's it.
YES, AWS is eating your lunch (Yes, the mighty Cisco) and everyone elses. I work for a managed hosting provider and we're in a death spiral.