According to Forbes online, Cisco is announcing specifics on their Borderless Network vision with specifics on new switches. These specifics come one week after Cisco's overblown router announcement that was supposed to change the Internet forever. We at SiliconAngle were reporting that Cisco was going to provide more 'edge' products as part of that big announcement which they never did. We stand by that original report and are sure those things will materialize eventually. With that in mind today's announcement shows clearly that Cisco is pushing the value at the edge of the network both in mobile and other devices. In today's announcement Cisco revamped their Ethernet switches, added new services, and enhanced routers for it's recentl

Under a beautiful day in Silicon Valley while Jonathan Schwartz (ex Sun CEO) blogs away as a mere moral just weeks after Sun has been consumed by Oracle, SAP introduced the new five-week old partnership of co-chief executives Jim Snabe and Bill McDermott. Jim Snabe and Bill McDermott are sharing the role of CEO at the global powerhouse software company SAP - whose current value is at $54 billion dollar (market capitalization). Jim and Bill were visibility tired, but they didn’t show it.  After hours of jet lag and late nights honing and finalizing SAPs business and technology strategy, the two CEOs showed excitement and punch to their new business strategy. Bill and Jim Show Jim Snabe talked about the agile and entrepreneurial sp

Last October I wrote: "By late 2012, federated storage will be the architecture of choice for large new storage deployments. These capabilities will dramatically improve IT's ability to respond to business needs with minimal disruptions. IT organizations should plan to aggressively adopt federated storage as it becomes commercially available." Around that same timeframe, Nick Allen wrote a piece about Chad Sakac’s Long Distance Live vMotion demo at VMworld 2009 and asked : "So, has EMC solved the long-distance cache coherency and distributed lock management problem that has plagued the industry forever?" Today (3/11/2010), EMC’s President of Information Infrastructure, Pat Gelsinger unveiled a vision for federated storage

Update: Cisco Announces upgrade but no set top box and no telepresence. Three out of five of this report announced by Cisco. Reactions were not that favorable. Update (March 8 2010): Cisco's Future Is Already Here -- Looks like Verizon, Juniper Networks, NEC, and Finistar are demonstrating trials on the eve of Cisco's big announcement reported by FierceTelcom, Information Week, and released by Verizon today. The announcement came as Cisco was preparing a major announcement for Tuesday, believed to be its entry in the 100G race. Google has already said it plans to test 100G networks in selected regions. You can take the 100G piece out of the Cisco equation and the notion that Verizon will be standing with Cisco at their podium.

At Mobile World Congress #mwc10 Juniper Networks Social Event in Barcelona I had a chance to sit down for an hour with the founder of Juniper Networks Pradeep Sindhu. We talked about network theory in media and in mobile applications as well as the changes in the networking systems. This was the first time that I had the chance to meet and discuss technology with Pradeep. I was very impressed. He's proven to be a world class entrepreneur in his success with building Juniper from inception to the size it is now. More impressive is his humble, intelligent, and pragmatic view on where networking is at and where it's evolving. Pradeep still has that entrepreneurial fire in his approach. I was really impressed with his vision for the new netw

One of the things that need re-engineering in the deployment of cloud computing  is that I find that often times the thought of  how it fits into an organization seems to be incongruent with the methods in which traditional applications get procured in an organization.  I say re-engineering because what this introduces is a departure from the standard mentality of application deployment. Traditionally, this has been addressed in a fairly consistent manner.  The general traditional track means: an application platform is proposed and identified, then physical and network systems are provisioned, application is put into place, and finally put into production.  That’s extremely high-level and grazes over many impor

Am making a spreadsheet comparing different products and looking at longer term costs, maintenance, power, cooling, and such.  I felt that rather than scrubbing the DOE sites and trying to get power costs by state I would just use the national average, but then fell flat on that because I found negotiated rates could be much less than published tariff rates. Then I stumbled upon what may be an easier solution to my quandary and one inline with what I see a lot of enterprises doing - call a hosting company.  I haven't talked to too many enterprise customers that are not at least considering if not seriously considering using a hosting environment, or event a full-blown cloud deployment for some portion of their enterprise data ce

The recent announcement between Terremark and Engine Yard got me to thinking this past week, just what this means for enterprises. Terremark has been quite aggressive in providing its Enterprise Cloud to the market. With VMware’s vCloud, they are delivering private cloud services to their enterprise customers. With roughly 50% of enterprises considering a move to a cloud computing model, the market opportunity abounds and competition will heat up. Terremark and VMware are both well known vendors who understand the needs of enterprises, and will leverage this to make its way into the private cloud market, as Terremark will not only provide the platform with VMware’s vCloud, but will also provide the necessary services needed to deliver

@GeorgeReese did something pretty cool today. He dared to ask how much a traditional security approaches were really worth vs. a cloud based approach. Yes, the discussion was short on heavy details--but it put a very pointed dollar sign bullseye on the most cited hesitation about cloud adoption over the last two years. His simple point reminded me of a Ron Paul talk that asked how much foreign policy and military should be costing the US. I'm not very political or deep on the topic-but I know market positioning, and not too many politicians were asking the question in such a pointed way--it stuck and created a mini-movement. If the only answer the establishment can give is "well that's how much we have always spent" the question

I’m not going to start off by setting unreasonable expectations for the readers here. Maybe my honesty will garner more attention than the typical fare (“Windows Mobile Should Scare Apple” or “Window at War with Apple”). Apple and WinMo phones are likely going after completely different market segments – Windows has never been all that attractive to folks who enjoy paying twice the reasonable amount for a device or piece of software. I will say this, though: Microsoft is definitely back, baby. Windows Mobile was one of the first truly workable (and hackable) solutions for mobile devices.  I enjoyed using it on an old Asus palmtop computer, which in the face of what was available from Palm and Handspring at the time (and g