Some people with probably think that I drank the Kool aid- Well our CEO and Chairman did a fantastic job this morning as a key note speaker at Oracle OpenWorld! Not as controversial as other CEOs , but certainly a speech which makes employees very proud to work for Cisco.
John McAbel who has been involved in the preparation of this speech warned me couple of days ago
“We are very excited to have John Chambers at Oracle OpenWorld this year. It’s the first year he is a key note speaker in four years at the conference I think it’s a reflection of the growth of the UCS within the Oracle ecosystem We have now hundreds of customers who are running UCS today , many of these customers are running large Oracle mission critical workload, such as EMC, Qualcom, University of Colarado, and others . So I think that John being here is a reflection of this growth, but also of the overall commitment of the partnership between the two companies Openworld in fact runs on Cisco networking gear and we run a lot of Cisco on Oracle eBusiness Suite and Oracle data base . So there is a nice synergy between the two companies
I think you’ll find this key notes unlike other key notes at Oracle OpenWorld , where we are going to have demonstration on stage of Cisco UCS running Oracle codes, we are also going to show how we can take that technology to help improve how customers will process words and some of the processes you will find them entertaining !”
- He was right !I saw this morning a constant flow of appreciative tweets on John’s speech Here are some of them starting with Marc Benioff from SalesForce.com “John Chambers is delivering one of the best keynotes in our industry. Watching him is humbling. He is as good as they get.”( @benioff)
“Have to say, Cisco CEO John Chambers is an excellent speaker, nice mix of biz, tech and vision RT “(@mfauscette) “That winds up John Chambers. Impressive talk! I learned a lot.”(@Oracleheretic) “Keynotes focusing on substance, not style issues. Other keynoters should take note, emulate“(@carterlusher) “Vendors that speak at industry conf’s should replay John Chambers #oow11 keynote. Very good balance of Thought Leadership + Product Pitch” (@sameerpatel) “John Chambers is the best speaker in our industry. #oow11 He sets the bar.” “Bold & consistent if nothing else” (@ca_bshimmin) “Great ideas! John Chambers, Cisco President, at Oracle OpenWorld”
I will not go through all the rich content of this entertaining and some times provocative speech (“If you agree with everything I say today, I haven’t done my job”. John Chambers). I hope to be very soon in a position to point to a the slide deck or even the recording of the speech -- So stay tuned
But here are some talking points (as perceived by the audience) , as well as the first reactions on this speech about change from The Register and The New York Time
As a large crowd of IT professionals are gathering in the Moscone Center in San Francisco , I asked John McAbel, A Cisco architect for Oracle Applications and a speaker at the conference to share his excitement about the partnership between Cisco and Oracle, starting today with what to expect from Cisco on the show floor -- So in this part 1 of the interview, we talk about the demos, the experts and the Cisco Validated Design practice.
John Tell us what the visitors can expect when paying a visit to our booth (#721) ?
“Amongst the demos , we will demonstrate big data on Cisco UCS . And for the customer who are looking beyond the big data market, we will have the ability to show demonstration of Oracle Ebusiness Suite , Oracle data base ,and RAC cluster architecture ,and we will talk about some of the scalability test we have done . We got a number of Cisco Validated Designs. We will talk about Oracle scalability, both on bare metal and also on hypervisor type environment So we will have Cisco experts in the booth able to talk about some of the benchmarks we will announce at the conference , between 3 and 5 benchmarks – So I Think that visitors will be very excited to hear about the leading performances that we continue to drive both in the application space and in the Oracle middleware space.
In addition of the demos, please check on the booth a series of theater presentations delivered by Cisco experts and Cisco partners .
Talking about the experts, can you tell us who they are ? What they bring on the table ?
Dan Loomis is a System/chief architect for the customer services area. His passion is definitely about aligning business and technology architecture, and working on strategic planning .Dan intends to share with the audience in his speaking session (Service Transformation: Building Process Automation for Complex Service Offerings ) framework and methodology learned.
High-technology companies have an increasing focus on creating and enabling services to grow profits and customer satisfaction by expanding value, differentiation, and capabilities. These services create extensive requirements to help companies successfully support the new service models. In this session, Cisco discusses its rigorous approach to platform transformation that brings together thorough performance metric identification and evaluation and combines with new strategy requirements to define its next platform. Read More »
Yesterday I talked with one of the Cisco experts on Oracle , John McAbel – John will have a speaking session ((Session #9208)) with Oracle VM Product Management Director Ronen Kofman , and was kind enough to explain in front of the camera what it is about
Here is the extract of the session
Oracle VM provides users with an array of new capabilities to help manage and consolidate workloads as a first step to a cloud implementation. The underlying hardware must be architected to combine compute, network, and storage elements balanced correctly to help ensure maximum performance. Read More »
Do you know the expected size of the audience at Oracle OpenWorld 2011 in San Francisco , October 2-6. ? Probably at least 41 000 attendees .No doubt that this year again the huge software company will succeed in attracting a very large crowd of IT decision makers and managers anxious to learn more, and solve daily problems as well as planning future services for their organizations.
Cisco this year again will be present as a diamond sponsor – And guess what ? John Chambers , Chairman and CEO of Cisco will on Wednesday October 5 morning the key notes speaker starting at 8:00 am PST . Well ..what does it mean ? Let me give you my perspective on that
First the partnership between Oracle and Cisco is getting stronger and deeper over the time- Yes our entrance on the server market with the Unified Computing systems at the time that Oracle was acquiring Sun Microsystems makes the relationhip more complex , but let’s face it – Oracle is first of all a software company, and when a company like Cisco is coming with a very successful server platform which makes your software shine in terms of performances, you definitely want your applications on this platform. Check out here benchmark reports and some customer testimonials.
