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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.
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.
Persistent Volume manager for Kubernetes - https://github.com/dwimsey/openshift-pvmanager
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!
Cisco aggressively offering cloud services themselves aught to go over well with all the customers of Cisco who currently offer cloud services.
blindly antisocialist = antisocial
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.
I want to delete my account but Slashdot doesn't allow it.
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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...but I guess a Judy Collins reference outs me as older than even Cisco's management.
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.
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.
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.
Blame apple for not having real severs anymore.
So, they'll be sponsoring Iron Man 4 you mean?
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There is nothing wrong with dreaming of castles in the clouds. The issue is, trying to move in.
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