If this is Cisco's Cloud strategy to combat Amazon/Google/Azure, I think it's time to call your broker and sell. http://blogs.cisco.com/cloud/multicloud-world
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@Ljy98mm-5xjs - Agreed, and operating on 'thin' margin is not how Cisco is built or what it operates on. The beast needs to be fed and it ain't happening at sub 25% margin. And it surely ain't happening at sub 25% margins and the quantity of management 'dead weigh' that exists here now.
tell me, who is making any big money selling any proprietary or opensrc based cloud sw products? the ones making money like aws and azure are large public clouds so eat the output of their own large sw teams. openstack is slowly going to its death also. vmware is laying off in dibs and dabs. as for supplying hw to public clouds none of them want branded gear - its a race to bottom with white and grey boxes for networking, compute and storage sourced from the likes of foxconn and quanta to reference designs.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/promising-startup-founded-former-cisco-185029039.html
http://www.businessinsider.in/Investors-were-once-tripping-over-themselves-to-get-into-a-hot-technology-called-OpenStack-What-happened/articleshow/46842968.cms
even a management far sharper than csco would have trouble with "cloud strategy" in this milieu
Heard rumors layoffs are coming to the cloud groups. Not sure that the strategy will generate any revenue. Are any large customers turning to Cisco for "cloud strategy"? How could you advise a large bank on how to build/run a cloud if you just shut down your own? They'll probably lay off most of the engineers and spare the execs that made these decisions.
AWS has been around for years and yet somehow Cisco was surprised by them. Reminds me of MSFT "missing the internet" back in the 90s.
@2sgn, aren't you forgetting something in your list? The NDS acquisition was a big train wreck in itself.
What engineers would go there now to work on Cloud? Didn't Cisco lay off all their cloud people over the summer?
you have to call a broker to sell shares ?
Never mind @Ljy98mm-1nds SPVSS time is nearly up. The continued train wreck of a business with a bunch of loser leaders from AS, Seachange and a bunch of bozos from Accenture, McKinsey etc. are almost finished f---ing it up. No more leaks from them once the ones that can handle eMails have all been fired.
Chuck and Cisco ELT, when will you end the ramping nepotism by Indians? Cisco product quality is sh--. The "innovation" is nothing but empty talks. You have turned Cisco to a third world company.
I agree with rbk
When the head of Cisco's cloud division was hired, he said he had no plans to shut down a third cloud. Congrats. He's successfully shut down three large clouds.
DiData? That's laughable. In the Americas they have laid off possibly a larger percent of their workforce than Cisco over the last 12 months (at least 3 rounds). They also sacked the CEO and the CFO "left".
Turns out to be a bit of a culture clash working in the US (I believe their cloud division is still based in the US) working for a South African based company, that is wholly owned by a Japanese conglomerate.
Based on an email sent out accidentally to the Cisco cloud customers (internal and external), Cisco is pushing them to move to Di Data cloud as an alternative to Cisco cloud which is going to be shutdown end of march. It seems this has been in the works way before the announcement of Cisco cloud shutdown. This cloud is seen as more Cisco friendly than Aws since Didata is using Cisco ACI and AS services. However someone from spvss panicked and start adding people to the email thread . It turns out spvss is not moving their workloads to didata (but perhaps to aws :) )
After being acquired, why would you stay at Cisco? The stock hasn't moved in years.
@Ljy98mm-ncj: Bingo!
So what this is actually saying, is we missed the bus and now we're scramberling to acquire any relevant cloud business we can get and then add it to a product list and call it a solution, before we're completely irrelevant.
Actually... in spite of the recent fiascos on the ELT-side for those under Biri (who on earth would trust the ELT after this?!), I think the multi-cloud hybrid-cloud approach is totally spot on. Cisco missed the bus for its own public cloud, and recognition of reality is far superior than putting our fingers in our collective ears / tilting at windmills.
They keep claiming to be the #1 IT Company... #1 in layoffs...
Someone tell management the "cloud ship" has sailed. Holy cow. Enough with this already just KILL IT!