Cisco's advantages and challenges. Comparisons to Juniper, ProCurve, Brocade.
August 5, 2009
Cisco’s Sales Will Drop as Much as 17%, Chambers Says | www.bloomberg.com
Cisco's strengths and challenges for their first fiscal quarter and beyond can be further defined when we compare them to their competition. Juniper, HP ProCurve, Avaya, Brocade (Foundry), Nortel, 3COM are vendors that can help us define and understand Cisco. Cisco's success may very well be due to the weakness of their competition versus the strengths of Cisco. In addition, with $30 plus billion of cash they are better positioned than most.
February 27, 2009
Alteon deal worth just $17.65M, Nortel says | www.ottawacitizen.com
-May be enough to finally give Radware a push into profitability; -Nortel (Alteon) clients win; -Radware may increase their market reach. -Competition is already going after existing Nortel clients.
There are lucrative sweet spots.
April 11, 2008
Cisco Signals Trouble Ahead | money.cnn.com
1) Due diligence is expected and the news of tightening belts was predicted. 2) In the last quarter we have found all verticals are experiencing some level of conservative spending. 3) However, we have also seen increased spending with some vendors and/or specific vendor products and solutions. There are profits to be made during these next few quarters.
Economic slowdown for network vendors
April 2, 2008
Cisco Signals Trouble Ahead | money.cnn.com
I will agree, that a collapse is overkill. But I see a softening of transactions and more projects help up at CFO level and because companies can't hire, and retain talent efficiently. This talent is the hold up of implementing new technologies, none the least is datacenter challenges around power. Wan Opt product realization of layer 4 possible challenges, may change course of companies looking for wan opt done at layer 3 instead.
VmWare is no longer in a blue ocean
November 13, 2007
VMware's Dominance Questioned | www.thestreet.com
VmWare must grow via the channel. VmWare must support their current customers. VmWare must continue to innovate to stay ahead of the competition.
SOA is a Journey, Not a Destination
September 25, 2007
SOA Market Forecasted at $15.4B by 2013 | www.gridtoday.com
SOA can be very useful if done correctly. SOA will be subjective. Vendor by Vendor SOA must be tied to policy.
September 7, 2007
Does Citrix Stand A Chance Against VMware In Virtualization? | seekingalpha.com
Sun Solaris 10 containers and LDOMS offer similar capabilities in the UNIX space. No other UNIX provider owns the chip the way Sun does SPARC. Virtualization may be a crowded space soon.
August 14, 2007
IBM, Novell Team to Tap Open Source App Servers | opensourcepbx.tmcnet.com
Sun has a viable alternative to IBM, Oracle, BEA, and JBoss. Sun's position in the market is unclear. SOA may slow sales of product for everyone.
Virtualization is Still Not Sure What it Wants to be When it Grows Up
July 10, 2007
Embracing the World of Virtualization | www.minyanville.com
Virtualization is beginning to move beyond consolidation. Virtualization introduces security and data management issues. Virtualization has no real standards at this time.
Standard and Validated deployments the key to secured and manageable virtualized environments
June 5, 2007
Management, security challenges threaten virtualization's success | www.networkworld.com
Standard architecures will avoid common pitfalls when introducing virtualization technology Broad use of virtualization in production environments is not here yet. Virtualization as a whole is in it's infancy, thus future security and management needs are not yet understood.
February 7, 2012
SOPA and the wisdom of Yogi Berra
January 19, 2012
Larger wafers present a growth opportunity for LEDs
January 6, 2012
Smartphones threaten digital camera industry
December 1, 2011
Google music launches: The end of the end for the music industry
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