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Cisco's Warrior talks unified computing
CISCO'S CTO, Padmasree Warrior, has slammed the IT industry for its current lack of centralised policy when it comes to data centre virtualisation and says her company is "uniquely positioned" to help punters navigate through the archipelago of virtualised islands in the data centre.
In a company podcast, Warrior said Cisco was seeing a "major inflection point in the data centre" and that the firm's new push into "unified computing" would help firms benefit from a linking together of all data resources in a common architecture.
"We see a market transition as a result of virtualisation," she said noting, however, that today's virtualisation architectures still required too much in terms of setting up and cobbling together. "The burden of system integration is on the customer," she explained.
But according to the CTO, Cisco would change this by helping to "eliminate the manual integration in favour of an integrated architecture". Not only that, but Cisco is apparently also committing to breaking down any silos between compute, storage, virtualisation and network platforms.
Warrior described contemporary data centres as "islands of virtualisation", comprising "technical islands, procedural islands, organisational islands and operational islands" and lambasted the industry for not providing the innovation to allow for simple, seamless and secure island hopping.
According to Warrior, only Cisco's unified computing model unites the three big virtual computing arenas, namely; Network, storage and server virtualisation.
Cisco purportedly wants to bung all virtualisation management into one common architecture with the network as a common backbone holding everything together.
"The architectural shift in the data centre marks an IT market transition that'll drive the benefits of virtualisation to an entirely new level," Warrior said, adding that Cisco was always watching out for the "key trends".
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."
As for stepping on HP and IBM's toes, Warrior lives up to her name and appears unapologetic. "Change always brings challenges and challenges always lead to innovation" she says, adding "Make no mistake, in a consolidating market you will see the leaders of this industry compete in new ways."
Them's fighting words. µ
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"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.
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.
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.