The water cooler talk is that Cisco is looking for potential buyers of its server business.
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/05/18/cisco_servers/
No proper roadmap. The true visionaries have moved to Pure storage and Dell. The leaders of this group is visionless, this what happens when sales people are made Veep
UCS FI never supported in ACI as a leaf... Severe disconnect and commitment between BUs and disjointed strategy and roadmap. This most clearly showed me things were FUBAR. Correct, the sacred cows there are getting paid for crashing and burning.
Lenovo couldn't much succeed in the PC business, drowned the handset business and what would they do with Cisco UCS?
I don't see this happening. Lenovo would have nothing to gain from a UCS acquisition.
Careful with names here, it's against the site rules. They (admins) will nuke the whole thread.
SVP/VPs & directors pls take responsibility of ucs's bad shape and get lost from sysco
when is sisco completing springpath acquistion ? any idea. for how much?
From success to flop. Clearly Cisco had a great USP at one stage and thought that would continue. The problem with our VP's is many have been at Cisco too long and don't know or can't remember what's it's like to battle in a commoditised market like the X86 one. This is also the reason we will fail to compete in the switching and routing market now that it being commoditised too, hence the quarter on quarter market share loses.
It annoys me when the leadership blame failures on market shifts. We are one of the biggest enterprise tech companies in the world and its our leadership's role to create the market shifts to benefit Cisco, not to just float around hoping the currents will go in our direction. Take some responsibility!
UCS is f**ked up and it's time to run. Next a few QTRs will only be worse.
UCS leadership won't take responsibility, they'll blame "Market Shifts". Sure the market is shifting, away from expensive x86 servers. Amazingly, ELT didn't see this even though Amazon/Google/MSFT have been deploying millions of servers, none of which are from Cisco.
UCS VP has been gunshy to do anything for years. Sits there and milks his salary. He inherited the Nuova spin-in and nothing else. Worst part about the MPLS team is that when they leave, the team left in charge has no direction.
what about Hyperflex ? will cisco still buy it ?
Rumored spin-in of RStor (the network is stoarage). Is that the savior of UCS?
@freedom Warrior ..what roadmap , can you elaborate? if that is so market ready , why is current situation ? there was no clear roadmap and market sense to catch into Rack servers domain
Read this about nightmarish roadmap and zero farsightedness , https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/05/18/cisco_servers/
There are bunch of outdated mgmt folks heading UCS BU claimed to be experts , they surely need to vacate their fancy cubes from Tasman drive.
UCS was a fantastic product and changed the industry. Now it's just old and tired. The UI is way out of date, the blade workload doesn't match modern application requirements, automation has been ignored (I hear UCS-Director is all but dead).
It's the same ignorant product management Cisco is famous for. The field bangs the drum over and over but get shot down and told "We know what customers want" by people who never leave Tasman Drive.
Anyone looking to the future doesn't even care what operating system their workloads run on, let alone the hardware platform and networking! UCS could have been great (automation layer, easy to steer workloads on it, make racks really good). Instead it's just below mediocre. Expensive too.
I'm sure the amazing DC specialists will still manage to sell some (or at least attach their name to Salesforce just in time).
UCS should be sold, there's no differentiator, no one cares about less cables or even blades.
Roadmap was shown at the VT. There is some things there. If you're going to comment like this, perhaps you should at least try stay up to date with the info they put out, instead of talking BS with no research.
if UCS business is not doing good then its a clear failure of management folks sitting in SJ and biting fat chunks from company, why to fire engineers who do what they are asked to do ?
No clear roadmap, no innovations, no proper QA efforts, kept hiring their own favorites in SJ, killed low budget teams in india, what else required to doom a growing business, still remember the days when UCS BU was having 35% YoY growth.
The management is super flop in UCS BU and they should take responsibility and resign voluntarily.