VMTN Blog

It's the John Chambers show! VMTN Blog will turn it over to the blogging crew here at VMworld 2007. Go forth and refresh:

Scott Lowe:

On the importance of catching the transitions—neither being too late nor too early—John discussed Cisco’s use of the Internet back in the late 1990s.  He predicts a “second phase” of innovation, built on virtualization and harnessing the power of the network (Cisco’s network, of course!), creating new services, new support, new sales models, new innovation and acquisition models, and new command/control/collaboration structures.  Embracing this next transition will require the CIO to build an infrastructure, in a cost-effective way, that allows CEOs to “catch the transition”. ...

It’s interesting to me as John continues his keynote how he uses “virtualization” interchangeably with telepresence (“virtual people”) and remote collaboration.  I suppose that’s a valid use of the term, since you are “virtualizing” your meeting members, but it’s not a traditional use of the term.

Alessandro Perilli:

Cisco expects a second major revolution in productivity since Internet introduction, thanks to new generation collaboration / Web 2.0 tools. These tools are changing the support model, the sales model, the way companies innovate and acquire technologies (8 days instead of 45 on average). And they are being adopted in the enterprise market after a successful widespread in the consumer market. To grant a reliable infrastructure for this second revolution Cisco looks at virtualization and convergence.

Also at the blogging tables:

• Viktor van den Berg
• Bouke Groenescheij
• Eric Sloof
• Mike Laverick
• Anders Jorgensen