"But computing could yet become much more centralised, leaving less space for Cisco to knit things together. Big cloud providers will also try to get into the business of managing and automating networks. And Cisco has a mixed record of implementing its strategy. However well it does, Cisco is unlikely to achieve a goal set by Mr Chambers back in 2013: to become the world’s “number-one player” in corporate-information technology. The more realistic Mr Robbins is unlikely to articulate such an ambition—he would probably be happy if Cisco remained among the top five."
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Missed out on 15 years of technology trends, yet we still have a brain-dead salesman as CEO. It's like working for the department of motor vehicles
Ask Chuck about cloud... bet his response will be "We have a slides!"
SPs have been running in production their own VNFs and SDN solutions. They don't even need to buy them from Cisco. Just quicker and cheaper to build their own.
Tightly knit compute resource mean hyper converged w DC switching, and Cisco is losing both.
Cisco is always going to be Mom's number one
Next townhall, lets ask him