May 10, 2008
Invitation to Webcast on SAN Innovations
Cisco will be hosting a webcast on Innovations for Next Generation SAN Architectures including FCoE. Plus, we'll have a special message from our storage partner, EMC.
I invite you all to join to learn about our strategic direction for the MDS 9000 product line.
Register here.
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May 09, 2008
Leaving Cisco After 15 Great Years
Post by Jayshree Ullal, SVP, Data Center, Switching & Services
Five years ago, Cisco committed to the Data Center in a strong fashion with our entry into Storage networking and MDS products. Today our Data Center engineering and management team is broader and deeper than ever as we have established a significant footprint across our portfolio growing to be the #1 or #2 company in each data center segment. Together our teams have generated 1500 patents and developed a transformational strategy with Data Center 3.0 across the past three years. We have pioneered new products such as VFrame, Nexus 5000/7000, a new class of NX-OS software, Catalyst 49XX & Catalyst 6500 VSS, ACE and WAAS; enabled new forms of virtualization and datacenter security, forged key industry partnerships and completed several acquisitions. Just last week, our innovations were awarded best of show at Interop for Nexus 7000 and WAAS. We also surpassed a cumulative of one million 10 gigabit ethernet ports across switches and routers, a key milestone of 10GE adoption in the Data Center.
I came to Cisco through our first acquisition, Crescendo Communications, in 1993. At the time, Cisco was less than $1B in revenue, around 1000 employees and mainly a router company. Today we are a nearly $40B networking company with formidable presence in the Enterprise Campus, Datacenters, Branch, Service Provider, Commercial and Consumer markets.
With mixed feelings and much introspection I have come to my decision to leave Cisco after 15 great and memorable years. My loyalty and affection to Cisco, CEO John Chambers and my teams made this a very difficult and lengthy decision process.
However, I am confident that I am passing the baton to some of the best engineering talent and general managers in the industry who will continue this journey we have begun. And I expect that Cisco will continue to innovate, capture growth opportunities and market share to meet our customers’ needs for Cisco's Data Center 3.0 vision. It has been my privilege to lead this team and I have full faith in our future driving Cisco's vision for transforming the data center. As for the inevitable question of what I plan to do next, I hope to re-kindle passions for my “next new gig” this summer and make an informed decision later this year.
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Our 101st Entry... and cool stuff I saw
This marks our 101st blog entry on the Cisco Data Center Blog. Starting back about a year or so ago with my first inaugural real post called The Fallacy of Wire Rate Switching (still one of my faves) to today when I just wanted to mention some neat companies and technologies I have seen recently:
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May 05, 2008
Start Believing the Hype
I continue to read posts from those who doubt that FCoE can succeed. That it is a major conspiracy amongst Fibre Channel vendors to keep Fibre Channel alive because iSCSI is eating into their market or as a way to churn the base by forcing customers to upgrade to shiny new gear.
Then there are the Fibre Channel proponents who believe no other network technology can come close to delivering the quality or perfomance that it can deliver and it is best to keep two separate networks indefinitely.
The reality is probably somewhere in between.
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May 04, 2008
Power, Pickups and Polar Bears
Dave Ohara recently posted on his Green Data Center Blog about the efforts of network vendors to help the greening of the data center. I am still not sure we are having the right conversation around this topic, but at least we are having the conversation.
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May 02, 2008
So what's a cloud....
Cloud Computing Circa 1998
Networks have historically been depicted as clouds. Why? I always wondered that. Most likely because it was an easy way to depict something ubiquitous (clouds are pretty much everywhere), something nebulous (because its form and shape changes as nodes are added and/or removed), and something powerful (clouds can become storms).
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Oy vei the chutzpah!
Just read this interesting write-up on feedback from Interop. Using the push to 10GbE to the server as an opportunity for insertion into the market is a good play, will be interesting to see how it bears out. I have to concur with the strategy since our Nexus 5000 does essentially the same, but also offers FibreChannel stateless gateways to make FCoE a reality.
dg
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May 01, 2008
Cisco & Ovum Analyst Discuss Data Center Trends at Interop
Doug Gourlay, senior director, Data Center Solutions at Cisco and Mark Seery, vice president of Switching & Routing at Ovum RHK, discuss data center trends at Interop 2008. These include consolidation, Fiber Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), SFP+, Twinax cabling, and new products.
Cisco Data Center Solutions
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April 30, 2008
Thoughts from Interop & winning Best of Interop
It's great to see Interop continue to rebuild intensity and attendee size from the boom to bust days and back. The floor certainly seems busy, as do many of the sessions we've attended and spoken at.
Application delivery continues to grow in focus over the last few years, and 2008 is no exception...
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Live from Interop 2008: Community Weighs in on Top Data Center Trends....Cast your vote now….
Text 8020 to 41411 for Policies
Text 8021 to 41411 for Performance
Text 8022 to 41411 for Instability
Text 8023 to 41411 for Costs
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Live from Interop 2008: Community Weighs in on Top Data Center Trends....Cast your vote now….
Text 8010 to 41411 for Virtualization
Text 8011 to 41411 for Energy Efficiency
Text 8012 to 41411 for Scalability
Text 8013 to 41411 for Facilities
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Interop 2008 Winner Best of Award for Infrastructure
Cisco Nexus 7000 Series is the recipient of Interop 2008 Product of the Year. It is the first Data Center class switch in the Nexus portfolio offering transport flexibility, operational continuity and infrastructure scalability.
Cisco Nexus 7000 Series
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Interop 2008 Winner Networking & Application Best of Award
Cisco WAE 674 and Cisco WAAS v4.1 is the recipient for providing application optimization, services for customers to improve application performance over Wide Area Networks.
Cisco Wide Area Application Engine (WAE) Appliances
Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) Software
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April 29, 2008
In the Know at Interop 2008
Jayshree Ullal, Senior Vice President, Data Center, Switching and Security Technology Group, Cisco, shares key customer insights from Interop 2008
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April 28, 2008
Interop 2008
It's that time of year again, trade-show season! Interop has always been one of my favorites- I guess it's the technical roots of it. Interop started back as Networld and Interop. One more of a trade show, the other an interesting technical challenge and exercise. Back when Interop started no one was certain which protocols would win, whether bridging or routing was the way to go, whether it would be Ethernet, ATM, Token Ring, or FDDI/CDDI to the desktop, etc. What Interop did was force multiple vendors to work together to build a network to support the show floor in a matter of days. There were also interoperability tests of new protocols and such between multiple vendors hardware, software, protocols, etc. In the end it became a gathering place for 20,000+ network professionals to see what worked, what didn't, hear about the latest and greatest...
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