Take a Network Break! On today’s episode we parse Cisco’s latest quarterly earnings and dig into executive comments around white box switching and a bigger push toward subscription pricing. Cisco is also announcing the end of life for the Nexus 6000 switch line.
We check in with the latest developments around containers and Kubernetes, and examine Dell’s latest efforts to raise money for its EMC acquisition.
VCE brags about the rapid adoption of its VxRail hyperconverged offering, cultures clash as Oracle and Google start to wrap up their arguments in court, and Brocade’s quarterly earnings can’t quite beat the street.
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Show Notes:
Cisco Earnings
Cisco earnings: 57 cents per share, vs. expected EPS of 55 cents – CNBC
Cisco Buoyed by Collaboration, Security Units – eWeek
Subscriptions & White Boxes
Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins is making a big bet on subscriptions – Recode
Cisco Looks to Beat White Boxes Where They re Strongest – Light Reading
Cisco Nexus 6000 Gets The Boot
Cisco Retires Nexus 6000 Switches – The Register
Cisco Nexus 6000 Is EOL – EtherealMind
End-of-Sale and End-of-Life Announcement for the Cisco Nexus 6000 Series Switches – Cisco Systems
Containers: An Enterprise Science Project?
Kubernetes the platform for running containers – is getting more enterprisey – Network World
Dell Issues Debt
With $20B Debt Offering, Dell-EMC Nears Closure – SDX Central
VxRail Steams Out Of The Station
VCE boss Chad Sakac bets he’ll win the hyperconverged market – The Register
Culture Clash Of The Titans
Oracle v. Google draws to a close, jury sent home until next week – Ars Technica
Brocade’s Quarterly Results
Second Quarter 2016 – Brocade