There is no future in hardware. Even with Cisco ACI most customers are refusing to adopt it once they get a taste of how they accomplish the same thing with cheaper in house clouding computing (openstack) or external cloud like AWS or GCP.
Way too many people comfortable in their jobs afraid that innovation will make them obsolete so here we are...Expect more panic accusations from Cisco soon.
Cloud indeed future. Run a 300 switch Cisco network on customer side. Big Nexus advocate. Name of the game is run the VMs you can in cloud. With COVID especially, with everyone working at home, that actually seems better choice. Wanted to buy more 95xx and 93xx series. Management pushed NetGear. At first was VERY skeptical but seeing little $300 switches doing just fine with 10GB and POE. Not sure what to say. Big shift is happening. As long as you have a backed up VM, it can live anywhere.
SDN vs. "hardware networks" ? So please explain to the less enlightened what are the main differences between these two.
Too little too late. Acquiring companies to cook the books like Oracle failed, oops.
Not funding R&D, oops.
Cloud is the future. They missed the boat....
They can still acquire an upcoming cloud company.
The company lacks innovation...maybe it's a culture thing there...Too many dinosaurs in the company scared of change.
Even after acquiring Webex is still has the same look and feel from 10 years ago
Thats what happens when you shift focus from a product development to an acquisition company. You get worse at both. Cisco clearly has a track record of failed products both created and acquired. Another sign of a failing company is "restructuring" for decades. Another sign of a failing company is smaller and smaller ER/LR packages, late stage it will be no package. Ask a anyone from a failed large company like Nortel.
You don't know what you are talking about, do you ? Just dropped some buzzwords but yor comment shows that you have no idea how networks operate.
They saw the trend, they just failed miserably at it.
Do you not remember the CISCO Public, Private, Hybrid, whateverThefuk Cloud offerings that were supposed to save the day ? Virtually dead on arrival. Amazon was already steaming along and we were banking on selling our gold-plated gear in our own DCs to make it all a reality.
DOA.