 | Is Cisco's SAN share loss due to server entry?
Cisco lost a huge amount of market share in SANs in the first quarter, according to Dell'Oro Group, and it may be due to its entry into the blade server market. Cisco lost almost 10 percentage points in overall SAN market share in Q1 while Brocade, its SAN rival, gained 14 percentage points in modular switches and almost four in fixed. The number of new Cisco CCIEs slip
Dual CCIE #18532 Security/Routing and Switching - George Morton, gives his take on the May 2009 Worldwide Cisco CCIE Count: "The number of new CCIE's has started to slip again. The average number of new CCIE's from Jan/Fed was ten a day. The Feb/May average number of new CCIE's dropped to eight a day. Now last February we mentioned that a rise in CCIE equaled a rise in the stock market was coming. So the inverse would be that the market will now correct because of the decline in new CCIE's. A stretch but..." "Over the last year I have commented about that idea that the world is not flat, (Thomas Friedman) but the 'world is lumpy.' The idea behind the Lumpy World is that the big global opportunities are where the CCIE counts are the highest, (lumps). Over the years visualizing the lumps has been difficult." "While at Google in March at the Google IPv6 conference I was introduced to the Chris Harrison's work, everything became clear. Harrison's work shows where the lumps are and they match the CCIE country counts. Harrison's idea is simple; map the 89,344 router peer-to-peer connections. The interesting thing is that the router connections match the CCIE global count country by country. I found the maps fun, (find Singapore) as well as very illumining as to the real business opportunities globally." Chris Harrison's Internet Map - World Connection Density "For the Country Ranking by New CCIE's all countries with double digit change were included. The big change was that the USA came in first place for the time in many of these reports. For most of last year, the USA was behind China and even India on a number of reports. What you will find interesting is the Internet Global connections map with the countries ranking. Most line up with the dark, (lumps)." Country Ranking by New CCIE's Catalyst 6500 has another decade or more left, Cisco hints
The first question on people's lips when Cisco introduced the Nexus 7000 data center switch was, how long until the plug is pulled on the Catalyst 6500? Well, the plug might be pulled on it sooner in data centers than in campus backbones. May Giveaways
Cisco Subnet, Microsoft Subnet and Google Subnet are collectively giving away books on Google Apps Deciphered, the CCNA Security exam, an awesome SQL Server 2005/2008 training video and the grand prize, a Microsoft training course from New Horizons worth up to $2,500. Deadline for entries May 31. |
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