I was on a call with someone from Cisco's UCS sales team last week. They are touting Intersight as the best thing Cisco has ever come up with. They are saying it's a game changer that is going to knock VMware's Tanzu and Google's Anthos right out of the water. So far, I am not impressed. It seems like they are betting a lot on an inferior product. Your thoughts?
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Intersight is just a flavor of the month. In a year or two, a majority of it will still exist only in a slide deck and the product will be heading to the waste bin.
Our Cisco rep has been pitching Intersight like mad also. While I will admit that they have some interesting features, we definitely will not recommend it to our partners and customers. The reason is that dealing with Cisco is like dealing with a bunch of 5-year olds. They come up with a product and pitch it like mad. However, a year from now, their people will get bored, lose interest and move on to other projects.
In typical Cisco fashion, the Intersight portfolio will be half finished and it will be near impossible to get support in a few years. It's always been a broken record with them. We invested millions in vaporware projects like IPTV, LoadBalancers, or UCS Director. They ended up losing interest and cancelled the projects after a while. We ended up wasting millions of dollars as a result. As the old saying goes, "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice (or a dozen times), (really) shame on us!"
@3csk+1aSJJaSJ stop drinking the Kool aid.
I am sure it will be as successful as Smart Licensing.
I started with DEC in 1980 and was there when it was sold to Compaq and then HP.
Only an old-timer [like me] would remember Nortel, Sun and DEC. I worked at DEC for 10 years back in the 80s.
[quote]I heard the same thing from Cisco. They are saying that Intersight will revolutionize the market and put Cisco back on top again. When they were pitching it to us, I remembered asking, "Isn't Intersight just a ripoff of VMware Tanzu?" The meeting went really downhill from there. To humor them, we started to ask about the features and apparently they were just vaporware. Also, when we told them that we are using Tanzu to deploy to the UCS, one of their execs went absolutely ballistic![/quote]
Intersight is not a ripoff of tanzu. Tanzu is a far cry from amazing. Intersiight Kubernetes Services is what competes with tanzu. You had a very stupid cisco team you met with who clearly cannot articulate Intersight or its capabilities. As such you clearly do not understand it. While there is no shortage of simple features still roadmapped there is alot to intersight today and no competitor has anything close to it.
Cisco is eerily similar to GE. Focused on stock buybacks and advertising... GE stock eventually plummeted but GE is still alive
Cisco is going the Nortel way, just as Sun & DEC disappeared into oblivion.
"sh ip int brief", I will miss that CLI
Why did you buy UCS?
I heard the same thing from Cisco. They are saying that Intersight will revolutionize the market and put Cisco back on top again. When they were pitching it to us, I remembered asking, "Isn't Intersight just a ripoff of VMware Tanzu?" The meeting went really downhill from there. To humor them, we started to ask about the features and apparently they were just vaporware. Also, when we told them that we are using Tanzu to deploy to the UCS, one of their execs went absolutely ballistic!
You know, Chambers had the opportunity to buy VMware a long time ago. He passed because he didn't think his sales force could sell software.
Then why in the he-l are we trying to turn into a software subscription services company? Looks like JC was correct.
You did mention "sales team". You'll never hear different from sales...
Intersight has an identity crisis. It is a server management tool. But they want it to be a cloud management tool. There are too lofty goals for it to do everything, which eventually means it does nothing well (look at Prime/DNAC). Remember Dave Goeckeler saying "be careful if you ask for one pane of glass, that you don't get one glass of pain"
UCS in general is geek squad level hardware and support. Nothing to be seen here. Intersight ultimately will support everything. Game changer? Not so sure unless the market buys in to the automation portion and Cisco develops some actual services around it. Today services are totally lacking across the board. The BDM org and the old CoE/TTG whatever it's called has been a total failure for years. Wonder why? The same losers have ran the orgs and done ZERO to advance anything (YX and CV total losers that were promoted to meet numbers). When Intersight is mentioned and it's a UCS guy touting it I just cringe.
“ You know, Chambers had the opportunity to buy VMware a long time ago. He passed because he didn't think his sales force could sell software.”
He was right.
ROTFLMAO... Who is going to buy a container stack from a legacy networking hardware company?
You know, Chambers had the opportunity to buy VMware a long time ago. He passed because he didn't think his sales force could sell software.
As with all things Cisco - a day late and a dollar short.
Your instincts are correct. The product IS promising. But it still has a long way to go to compete against VMware. The VMware SDCC installation stack is superior to trying to install HX, ACI, and (register) Intersight. I’m really interested to see where the Banzai Cloud & PortShift acquisitions will fit in for Intersight. Cisco has trouble getting the attention of non-infrastructure decision makers to talk Kubernetes, etc…
You mean it isn't the next iphone?