http://broaddev.com Tracking UC, Virtutalization, Security, Web 2.0 All Day and All Night Tue, 27 Jan 2009 23:32:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I cornered Doug Gourlay Senior Director of Product Marketing of Cisco's Datacenter Business Unit, at the Infrastructure 2.0 event to answer my question about what he means when he says "The Modernization of the Datacenter". Question (John Furrier): What do you say to all the skeptics who say that ... http://broaddev.com/2009/01/27/infrastructure-20-the-modernization-of-the-datacenter-doug-gourlay-of-cisco/ I had a chance to meet with Doug Gourlay, Senior Director of Cisco's Datacenter Business Unit, to ask him about what he thinks of Infrastructure 2.0. Very interesting response.  I have a few more segments:  Modernization of the Data Center and What Cisco thinks of the phrase "Moving up the stack". To ... http://broaddev.com/2009/01/26/definition-of-infrastructure-20-with-ciscos-doug-gourlay/ Here is the press release from the Infoblox and Cisco event that I went to yesterday. I got some good video from Cisco on their 'moving up the stack' views and what 'modernize your datacenter means'.. Doug Gourley was on the panel and I had a chance to ... http://broaddev.com/2009/01/16/infrastructure-20-infoblox-introduces-resilient-core-network-services-to-cisco-branch-office-solutions/ Here is an opinion piece written by John Chambers CEO of Cisco.  Talk about a vision for Broadband no better to post on Broadband Developments. President-elect Barack Obama's ambitious economic recovery plan has a goal to create 3 million American jobs in the next two years. Broadband is a part of ... http://broaddev.com/2009/01/15/john-chambers-opinion-on-broadband-the-broadband-economy/ News of Nortel’s bankruptcy filing hit the news yesterday.  No one is really surprised. First thoughts, you can bet that giants like Cisco and Avaya will be courting some Nortel customers.  The truth of it is, Nortel while they have some great products – was not run well.   Hopefully ... http://broaddev.com/2009/01/15/let-the-speculation-begin-nortel-bk-effect/ Reposted from my Furrier.org blog.  Network World is reporting that Cisco has done deal with Infoblox for managing DNS at the edge. In enterprise speak this is about the branch office - in tech speak this is about intelligent addressing and control of the edge. Infoblox vNIOS™ software for Cisco ... http://broaddev.com/2009/01/12/the-quiet-tech-war-google-vs-cisco-dns-is-the-internet-oxygen-cisco-does-deal-with-infoblox-on-dns-at-the-edge-speaks-volumes/ I will be blogging this Infoblox event this coming week its a discussion around the Cloud Computing and Dynamic Infrastructure or Infrastructure 2.0.  Here is Cisco blog post talking about the upcoming Cisco event with Infoblox. If you're interested in attending click on this link. The core network services (DNS, DHCP, RADIUS, ... http://broaddev.com/2009/01/11/cisco-infoblox-live-announcement-next-week/ Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) today announced it has acquired Q-layer, a cloud computing company that automates the deployment and management of both public and private clouds. The Q-layer organization, based in Belgium, will become part of Sun's Cloud Computing business unit which develops and integrates cloud computing technologies, architectures ... http://broaddev.com/2009/01/07/will-the-clouds-part-for-some-sun-q-layer-might-be-an-answer/ VMWare is adding a new executive to the stable - Tod Nielsen.  This on the heals of Diane Greene being forced out. VMware Inc., (VMW: NYSE) the global leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop to the datacenter, announced today the appointment of Tod Nielsen to the newly created role of ... http://broaddev.com/2009/01/06/vm-appoints-new-coo-tod-nielsen-can-vmware-maintain-their-leadership/ Cisco has a great blog post about their 2009 predictions and it's very upbeat. Although Cisco is aiming to be a household brand, they are the 800 pound gorilla position in the enterprise. Ethernet and IP are remarkably resilient technologies and they can both take a lot of abuse, but ... http://broaddev.com/2009/01/06/cisco-gets-hip-with-infrastructure-20-heys-its-the-dynamic-enterprise/