Coffee Break -Show 11 - a podcast by Packet Pushers Interactive, LLC

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Health week on the Coffee Break – we are drinking water instead of coffee or kool-aid.

 

Hating on the Public Cloud

The cloud isn’t all “ponies and rainbows,” and it’s not for everyone — Tech News and Analysis

WanOp takes a break.

WAN Optimization Market Declines 12 Percent Sequentially Indicating Softening Demand | Dell’Oro

Primary factor: Bandwidth is getting cheaper and make WanOp less attractive.

Secondary:

1. network complexity and scale makes WanOp harder to consume.

2. We are in a market transition and customer attention (and budgets!) are focussed on other technology like private clouds, SDN etc.

Battle of Converged Infrastructure

Musing: Flexpod at $2B Run Rate, VCE at $1.8B – Thats Unexpected – EtherealMind

FlexPod Passes $3 Billion in Joint Sales for Cisco and NetApp – The Network: Cisco’s Technology News Site “Since 2010. ”

Cisco and NetApp today announced that the FlexPod® integrated infrastructure solution has generated $3 billion in joint sales since its launch in 2010. FlexPod unit shipments have grown 81 percent year-over-year, with demand for FlexPod solutions now reaching a $2 billion annualized demand run rate.

VCE Surpasses 2013 Goal of $1 Billion in Annual Sales[1], Accelerates Growth in Q1 2014

VCE, the leader in converged infrastructure systems, today announced that it surpassed its 2013 goal of generating $1 billion in annual sales, and demand for VCE products and services reached a $1.8 billion annualized demand run rate exiting the fourth quarter of 2013. (My emphasis)

Recent Survey results for State of Data Centre show that interest in converged platforms is dropping quickly:



Facebook and their FBOSS switch

Facebook Hastens the Era of Open Source Hardware – Forbes

Introducing “Wedge” and “FBOSS,” the next steps toward a disaggregated network | Engineering Blog | Facebook Code | Facebook

Supermicro MicroBlade with Pluribus Networks Netvisor – Products – Pluribus Networks

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