Chambers: The data center. If you watched where we said networks would go, we said there would be three major phases to it. First is the intelligent movement of data, voice and video across the series of network--our 'network of networks' approach. The second was the virtualization of services and resources. The third area is application-aware networks. It has huge implications. It makes it really transparent where the application resides or what combination of devices it runs across. So if you think of application-aware networks as the logical evolution of where we're going to go, the data center is clearly where we see a lot of opportunity--with partners. That's the key issue. It's a different philosophy from most of our peers. So partnering with an IBM and an EMC and an HP as opposed to competing with them. "
Thursday, May 19, 2005
The Data Center, stupid
"Network Computing: So what's the Next Big Thing, the next big product thrust, for Cisco, following your move into storage several years ago?
Chambers: The data center. If you watched where we said networks would go, we said there would be three major phases to it. First is the intelligent movement of data, voice and video across the series of network--our 'network of networks' approach. The second was the virtualization of services and resources. The third area is application-aware networks. It has huge implications. It makes it really transparent where the application resides or what combination of devices it runs across. So if you think of application-aware networks as the logical evolution of where we're going to go, the data center is clearly where we see a lot of opportunity--with partners. That's the key issue. It's a different philosophy from most of our peers. So partnering with an IBM and an EMC and an HP as opposed to competing with them. "
Chambers: The data center. If you watched where we said networks would go, we said there would be three major phases to it. First is the intelligent movement of data, voice and video across the series of network--our 'network of networks' approach. The second was the virtualization of services and resources. The third area is application-aware networks. It has huge implications. It makes it really transparent where the application resides or what combination of devices it runs across. So if you think of application-aware networks as the logical evolution of where we're going to go, the data center is clearly where we see a lot of opportunity--with partners. That's the key issue. It's a different philosophy from most of our peers. So partnering with an IBM and an EMC and an HP as opposed to competing with them. "
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