Summary: [player]<br> Health week on the Coffee Break – we are drinking water instead of coffee or kool-aid.<br> <br> Hating on the Public Cloud<br> <a href="http://gigaom.com/2014/06/19/the-cloud-isnt-all-ponies-and-rainbows-and-its-not-for-everyone/">The cloud isn’t all “ponies and rainbows,” and it’s not for everyone — Tech News and Analysis</a><br> WanOp takes a break.<br> <a href="http://www.delloro.com/news/wan-optimization-market-declines-12-percent-sequentially-indicating-softening-demand">WAN Optimization Market Declines 12 Percent Sequentially Indicating Softening Demand | Dell’Oro</a><br> Primary factor: Bandwidth is getting cheaper and make WanOp less attractive.<br> Secondary:<br> 1. network complexity and scale makes WanOp harder to consume.<br> 2. We are in a market transition and customer attention (and budgets!) are focussed on other technology like private clouds, SDN etc.<br> Battle of Converged Infrastructure<br> <a href="http://etherealmind.com/musing-flexpod-2b-run-rate-vce-1b-thats-unexpected/">Musing: Flexpod at $2B Run Rate, VCE at $1.8B – Thats Unexpected – EtherealMind</a><br> <a href="http://newsroom.cisco.com/release/1441075/FlexPod-Passes-3-Billion-in-Joint-Sales-for-Cisco-and-NetApp">FlexPod Passes $3 Billion in Joint Sales for Cisco and NetApp – The Network: Cisco’s Technology News Site</a> “Since 2010. ”<br> Cisco and NetApp today announced that the FlexPod® integrated infrastructure solution has generated $3 billion in joint sales since its launch in 2010. FlexPod unit shipments have grown 81 percent year-over-year, with demand for FlexPod solutions now reaching a $2 billion annualized demand run rate.<br> <a href="http://www.vce.com/about/media/news?id=tcm:20-18846">VCE Surpasses 2013 Goal of $1 Billion in Annual Sales[1], Accelerates Growth in Q1 2014</a><br> VCE, the leader in converged infrastructure systems, today announced that it surpassed its 2013 goal of generating $1 billion in annual sales, and demand for VCE products and services reached a $1.8 billion annualized demand run rate exiting the fourth quarter of 2013. (My emphasis)<br> Recent Survey results for State of Data Centre show that interest in converged platforms is dropping quickly:<br> <a href="https://packetpushers.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/data-centre-strategy.png"></a><br> Facebook and their FBOSS switch<br> <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/kurtmarko/2014/06/22/facebook-open-source-hardware-2/">Facebook Hastens the Era of Open Source Hardware – Forbes</a><br> <a href="https://code.facebook.com/posts/681382905244727/introducing-wedge-and-fboss-the-next-steps-toward-a-disaggregated-network/">Introducing “Wedge” and “FBOSS,” the next steps toward a disaggregated network | Engineering Blog | Facebook Code | Facebook</a><br> <a href="http://www.pluribusnetworks.com/products/supermicro/">Supermicro MicroBlade with Pluribus Networks Netvisor – Products – Pluribus Networks</a><br>
