an internal Google strategy document from 2010 entitled “Where Industry is Headed in 5 Years” stated there would be some concentration in the market within five years, with “cloud service providers consisting of Google, Amazon, Microsoft and a hybrid of Cisco and VMware.”
5 replies (most recent on top)
Former 10 year employee here. I can remember John Chambers often saying that in 10 years, those companies that were your competitors will not exist. Could this be applicable to Cisco themselves?
Pay attention you are beating a dead horse in The middle of the river. You didn’t notice it’s nose is under water. Keep on floating err I mean riding that pony.
Damn the torpedos full speed ahead.
Now get back to your terminal I don’t hear enough key clicks or mouse clicks.
Actually the intercloud was a good attempt but ended up due to poor execution. Be it "not innovated in San Jose" problem or some cracks between the top Tech execs. I was at the receiving end at that time. Working with asian customers, bombarded with queries, EBC and what not. In fact, that's kinda Hybrid cloud that could have created enormous value for our customers. Unfortunately, the transition, retirement of Rob, and new kids coming on board all created diff power games.
We had the same papers at Cisco, we even for a time got serious, at least on paper about being a cloud player. We wandered around, it got lost in the JC - Pre Chuck days, Rob / Edzard pushing it, BUs not buying it, k–led off because silo's and status quo is easy... right... i do think Rob got it
We declared intent, remember the $2bn drive into "cloud", intercloud was a kinda right, kinda ahead of it's time. Hampered by internal silos, BUs not willing to shift to a nimbus (trust, porting issues, many many other but mainly politics). We could have, should have, consolidated ott capbilites such as collab and gone with a call-meet-care capability on our own cloud, instead we let multiple on prem / or sp hcs continue and we lost innovation, we lost our juju, ditto for the saas plays, common services (identity, auth), common nfv offerings and grow dev those or pick a play across gcp-aws-azure-oli, now we are being relegated.
GCP, now doing it's own version of intercloud with the SPs, AWS, yep going to do same.... Backing into Cloud now will take signifcant stamina, more likely a partnership play as we seem intent on not building but porting more on aws.
There is a great deal we could still do, we just need to be thinking more customer in, not cisco-silo's out... there is life in the old dame yet.... it will take a monumental shift in leadership, we need BUs to think ahead and unify, that will need a CTO that we seem to have not had in more years than I care to recall, we need a leadership team willing to bet the farm on where the puck is going, not where it was.
Signed... a cisco emp that cares.
Chuck seemed to be worried about BLM more then reading this document about how to win and where the puck is going not where it was....
We need a real engineer that is a sales person to take the helm of the once great Ship and get us back on track.
Golden parachute ELT please (Cisco board of directors you have this power) , hire back the smartest sales/Engineer that is real, pay her or him whatever they want and let get Cisco back on course...
If not we are going to become Sun, Nortel
Or
Novell, Inc. /noʊˈvɛl/ was an American software and services company headquartered in Provo, Utah. Its most significant product was the multi-platform network operating system known as Novell NetWare, which became the dominant form of personal computer networking during the second half of the 1980s and first half of the 1990s. At its high point, NetWare had a 63 percent share of the market for network operating systems,[2] and by the early 1990s there were over half a million NetWare-based networks installed worldwide.[3] Novell technology contributed to the emergence of local area networks, which displaced the dominant mainframe computing model and changed computing worldwide. Novell became instrumental in making Utah Valley a focus for technology and software development.