What’s the future of N9K, ACI looking like with the exit of the VP for PM and TME teams?
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No worries we have AI cloud with Nvidia ! All good please move along.
@1krd+1sRv41qg what a wise and cognisant response.
The people who are best positioned to advise on what customers actually need and want are those at the coal face seeing real issues and problems who help our customers solve them.
This is typically the traditional professional service team (not sure what they are called now) or good experienced TAC people.
Who would a customer rather trust, one of the above, or one of the SA/SE guys who is mostly interested in hitting numbers.
Customers for the most part have engineers unable to support complex networks. Given that, it doesn't matter how good or bad the offering is. The outcome is the same. They don't want it. Not sure why the supposed smart people in the CXPM and solutions teams don't actually ask and do some diligence on things. Ask the CX engineers about customer sentiment, what they are doing. Not the centers, but actual competent engineers. Not the SIA/SEs, but someone that isn't on the sales bonus plan,. Someone that has an actual clue. The solutions development process has been a failure for at least a decade and continues today. It is the same teams every year fumbling through the same stuff and delivering the same nothing to services and it's customers. CoE, ET&I, TTG - all absolute failures along with that development cycle and I don't see it changing soon without a huge house cleaning.
People come and go, no big deal. As long as the Titanic maintains its course to the icebergs, there's nothing to worry about. No captain required to reach DC's final destination.
This is not the first time the OP posts about this. Not sure in what way this person was hurt by that side of the business but it definitely hurt him. While I am no admirer of the way the company is run right now I can definitely say that this is not one of its weakest point. This person who is posting frequently about the DC BU definitely has an issue
There’s no future. That’s why they left!
Amazing how much money and resource was poured into ACI over 10 years for it to die. It is interesting that little VXLAN workflows in Nexus Dashboard are replacing it. Those VXLAN orchestrations are all the way back to the Embane acquisition 10 years ago, which became Nexus Fabric Manager, which was ki-led and pulled into DCMN, which was ki-led and made customer buy a giant Nexus Dashboard cluster (3 servers) for 1 application. Quite a mess of stuff - Arista isn't too worried.
Yet another new fabric was announced at live.
John Chambers' last ditch effort to hook customers on a proprietary Cisco data center solution is breathing its last breath...
Arista slam dunks here
Saying they actually want nxos is a stretch...
i wouldnt say its deat, but ACI is def no longer the DC darling solution. we are seeing more and more customers who dont want all the bells and whistles that ACI provides. they just want vxlan on nxos.