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Cisco Plans $1B Investment In Cloud
itwbennett (1594911) writes "Cisco Systems said Monday it plans to invest over $1 billion to expand its cloud business over the next two years, including building a global, OpenStack-based 'network of clouds' that it has dubbed the 'intercloud'. The Intercloud will support any workload, on any hypervisor and interoperate with any cloud, both private and public, according to Cisco."
...until I release my metaintercloud.
They'll all be regretting that misdirected $1 billion then.
I can just imagine a room of gray-haired Cisco executives coming up with a name for this. "I've got it, it's the cloud on the internet! We'll call it the Intercloud!"
Just wondering.
Because you can run any service on any hypervisor ... magically ... on their cloud ... it will also magically cure all the worlds ills.
Marketing douche bags, I suspect 'works together' means that they have network connectivity.
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great truncation of my topic
Supposed to read:
"Why do people bitch about the NSA and still put their data in "the cloud""
Large company buys additional servers and plans to lease services. More after at 11:00!
I cannot wait to start moving my web-o-sphere into the intercloud! My blog-o-tubes will run faster than ever!
Cisco aggressively offering cloud services themselves aught to go over well with all the customers of Cisco who currently offer cloud services.
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u're comment in the subject?
A whole network of clouds... are they proposing some form of hierarchy or do they just mean "a big cloud"?
The cloud worked perfectly and increased performance substantially!
I saw Woz speak a few years ago at a conference, and he was pretty anti-cloud - he says you should own your own data, in your hand, on (ideally) a computer you built and programmed yourself. He's spot on.
Clouds lose data. They get hacked. They get snooped. If you have a storage device in your hand, you own the data.
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They gonna call it the "uber-cloud" ?
Or maybe the "mother of all clouds" ?
Anyway, once Cisco's got it up & running, just imagine a Beowulf cluster of them. Or don't.
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I suppose if they didn't p that they'd die of a busted bladder. That's just my guess.
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...but I guess a Judy Collins reference outs me as older than even Cisco's management.
i think they're trying to avoid the usual term for a network of clouds.
Note: This thread is best experienced with the cloud-to-butt plus extension
"Why do people bitch about the NSA and still p
Glad you're OK. I thought that was a genuine "NO CARRIER".
Set your phasers on "funky"!
Geez...just what we need. Cisco in the cloud.
Cisco is a company that invents their own standards based on their own thinking, but sometimes on existing standards, then attempts to force the world to follow "the Cisco way".... Anybody for IGRP or EIGRP or HSRP? While the existing standards may not have all the "bells and whistles" of the similar Cisco-developed feature, at least the existing standards have a better hope of interoperating between different vendor's hardware. And Cisco-developed standards? Well they only seem to work well with Cisco hardware, but even then you have to be careful of software versions, different types of chips they use having different features, and a whole host of changes they can implement via add-in cards, licensing, software bugs, etc.
I remember an engagement where Cisco was helping us implement OSPF for a large chip manufacturer. We, and so did our customer's very talented staff of engineers (some of them designed some of the silicon used in our gear and Cisco's gear), learned that Cisco's implementation of OSPF didn't follow the published standards. Said another way, Cisco found some "creative ways" to break OSPF via obscure bugs that they were slow to fix. I saw the same issues with Cisco and OSPF at another large telecom customer that also had a very talented technical staff.
What did I learn? Cisco is the Micro$haft of the networking industry. they decide what is right for you and expect you to buy it at their over-inflated prices.
And what about Cisco's jump into the clouds? Looks like a "me too" effort on Cisco's part...not wanting to be left out. So much for Cisco being "innovators".
Seriously. . . who comes up with this stuff?
Facts have a liberal bias.
Cisco bought Meraki a few years ago, one of the best cloud based networking hardware innovators... The hardware and web interface has got better for sure, but I fear the support side is going downhill. I've never been happy with Cisco's crappy support, I don't see this ending well.
Do they not know what market research is? If they asked a sample size of say...anything, they would learn that they have a reputation to be ungodly overpriced on anything that could be classified as a subscription. That could be a support plan or extended warranty or planned maintenance or, oh I don't know, cloud services maybe. Even if every last IT person on the planet knows to avoid ongoing cisco costs, by itself the company should know they're too bulky and expensive to operate. They will get undercut on cloud pricing by anything from a tiny company to Google. I hope this is the final mistake that kills cisco forever.
With all those coulds and interclouds I hope they improved their storm control.
Cisco bought a company where I worked for $680 million and then spent two years adding a ton of Cisco folks to the business unit who did nothing except create a Kafka-esque mess of comical proportions. After two years, nothing much got done and the added bloat made the business unit unprofitable, so they canned the entire lot. The more entertaining parts of the Cisco way was that we were required to put our build machines in a server room, but only approved hardware was allowed in the machine room. We needed to build the OSX version of the software, but no Apple equipment was approved for the machine room. The solution that we were required to implement was to hack OSX and get it working on a Dell and they were not happy when we told them that we could not legally do this. In addition, our BU had a mobile team, but Cisco would not purchase Android or iOS phones for the devs, because only execs got smartphones. The developers ended up buying their own devices. Cisco is great a throwing money around, but very poor on executing and I don't expect anything to come of this "investment".
Must. Resist urge to stab pencils in my eyes.
Going to surf some cyberspace on the information highway using the interweb with the internet to access some clouds within the Intercloud.
Between media and marketing speak it is getting harder and harder to distinguish between fictional and actual technical terms.
I decided long ago to only use the most ridiculous terms in protest, I get all my bits through a series of tubes on the Intertubes.
With cloud computing being a buzz work, I keep thinking that this means a network (internet) now has clouds in it. I used to think of clouds being in the sky. So.
Sky = inter Net
Dropping the = inter, we can see that what technology is evolving too is:
SkyNet
You think the NSA is being stopped by your security?
Now we just have to compromise one cloud! And once we have, we can farm out all the data analysis!
Blame apple for not having real severs anymore.
So, they'll be sponsoring Iron Man 4 you mean?
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