Cisco Execs that presented from CEO on down are CLUELESS
Everything they presented is already being deployed better and cheaper by AWS, Microsoft, Google, etc
Only chance to save this company is to bring in a new Technical CEO and fire all of the unqualified Cisco EVP/SVP's
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From past experience, the only way maximize your time spent at CL is to coordinate your visit via your account team, or know someone at Cisco who can connect you with knowledgable people. As a general attendee, you're mixed in with the crowd and get the general pitch on technologies. Your badge and lanyard might have a fortune 500 name on it, but to most booth workers, you are just another demo or canned talk track recipient if you just walk up and as "what are you showing here?". Even in the world of solutions, you're just one of the many that the booth staff want to scan your badge and get you into the tracking system. I don't see the general attendees having the same quality of discussion.
I mention the account team, because they can actually get you into meaningful conversations - not just whisper suite type talks, but in general, to talk with someone who is knowledgeable about the product or a solution offer and also to get you in front of someone who is interested in what your needs are while having a conversation about ways that can drive future product development.
This year, it was apparent that this was the first trade show for many in attendance. Everyone is still trying to get accustomed to travel again, both customers and Cisco employees. Future shows (economy willing) will be better next year.
Personal opinion - the only areas that are still interesting at shows like this are DevNet and IoT, because I don't see innovation in switching, routing, data center or cloud.
Technical CEO is needed for any company to grow.
I was at Cisco Live and most customer's at the after hours parties agreed that Cisco does NOT have the brainpower at Exec and lower levels to compete and they are in the process of transitioning to competition
I like the original poster and you are 100% right on this one.
Cisco has become a UNICEF and all execs hang out with each other to stay in their friends circle. No one cares about innovation, customers and their employees.
The current management is there to milk the cow and collect as much cash as they can before it dries out. The only way to revive is to have a tech CEO and complete re-shuffle of all id--tic SVP/VP's who should be beaten in car park with baseball bats before leaving Cisco premises. They wasted tons of money, engineering efforts and everyones time to work on something without a strategy.
Todd finally relaunching the sh-t that sales have been asking from last 5 years - after losing ton of deals and confusing customers with varied architecture strategy - and now everyone will define this as the groundbreaking strategy. Hello Todd - the only thing productive you did was getting your wife pregnant.
Cisco has not innovated anything in last few years and will continue to repackage the same sh-t.
@1pez+1hfb0lLB No cloud has peaked and is a commodity. And with all the VC money drying up the big cloud customer startups are all folding.
The cool customers are all hanging out with AWS, Azure, and Google
You saying managing 25+ years of Cisco IOS features in a white-box GUI Meraki Dashboard isn't the next iPhone?
You don't sound like a customer. You sound like a bitter employee. Why would you post this on a layoff site. You look like an id--t...customer. please.