Well let's hope their data center is more unified then their so called unified communications portfolio. What a mess. They have purchased to many dofferent peices, and they don't fit together at all. Can you say CUPS, Postpath, Jabber, Webex? These products are still a tangled web of duct tape.

Cisco is having visions again? Better lay off the psilocybin mushrooms, babe.

IBM has offered a "unified" architecture for decades. It's called a mainframe, later mainframe clusters. DEC (God bless Ken Olsen) offered DECclusters. Both highly unified architecture.

Now some network router company comes along and claims to know more than IBM? For shame, for shame. It's amazing what delusions you develop being a marketing hack.

But then, you only have to fool the suit-wearing monkey sitting in the corner office long enough to make your score, then you can ply your "talent" somewhere else.

"So what makes Cisco so well suited to this trend spotting? According to Warrior, understanding of the network is critical as it is the network which orchestrates all types of communication across the data centre. Emphasising her point, Warrior added "Now, more than ever, the network is the platform."

Ms Warrior is a tad slow off the mark and will not be very successful without NEUKlearer HyperRadioProActive Trigger Algorithms, for what would I suppose, Best be called Cloud Controllers/Virtual AIMaster Pilots Servering NINJA NIRobotIQs .... Networks InterNetworking Javan Applications with Immaculately Resourced Assets for Universal Virtual Forces.

And one of those DARPA Skunk Works Hush Hush type things which can be plausibly denied, given the Sensitivity of ITs Ubiquitous SCADA Embedding and Stealth AIR&dD Capability/Steganographic Facility .... but not at all Subject to nor an Object of US Dominion Control as IT Belongs to the Others across the Pond, with Beta Plans for AI and a NeuReal Transparent Virtual Operating System. IT can be Lease Purchased/Licensed though, on XXXXStreamly Favourable Terms, but there are Stringent CyberIntelAIgently Designed Access Protocols to the ProgramMING which Expose and Strip Bare of Assets, Sub Prime Agents and Shadow Proxies, thus to Discourage and Suitably Punish the Less than Virtuous and Totally Committed to Beta Cloud Controlled Virtual Operating Systems for Global Command and Control of Quantum Communications Systems .... for MkUltraSensitive Perceptions Management. A QuITe Priceless Noble Development in the BroadBandCasting Spectrum Field and EduTainment Theatre of Operations.