That's really unfortunate. There were so many missed opportunities, so many bad acquisitions and other leadership mistakes that they will never admit. What will happen to this company in the end? Will this leadership allow almost everyone to outpace us?
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I’m not sure what you mean by “ getting outpaced”. Cisco has been getting outpaced for over 25 years. Look at the growth of companies like Google compared to Cisco.
That said, I don’t think that my career was badly damaged by working for Cisco, and in the networking field. But I certainly would’ve been better off learning google technologies and programming.
Meraki, Duo and Umbrella were the only good aquisitions lately imho
The only acquisitions involved in sda happened almost 30 years ago.
@1ahm+1n86vjZg ALL of the acquisitions there were cello-taped and stapled to "create" SDA as the god-gifted technology. SDA is death warmed up as far as business goes due to the flakiness of the solution, cost and total uselessness, especially in a Brown field deployment.
The reality is that acquisitions made by Cisco were simply done in hopes of filling revenue gaps created by home grown products.
Because there is no technical strategy that drives Cisco’s development spending, the acquisitions always look like Frankenstein parts tied to the home grown products with twine - just like all of the home grown products look when set next to each other.
"death by a thousand cuts" .I 100% agree with @2ftc+1n86vjZg ..you are right
Well narrated @2ftc+1n86vjZg ...Get a life jacket for you :-)
We are in a process called "death by a thousand cuts" . ELT has hardly any clue, like a captain of a ship who is oblivious about hundred of small holes on a gaint ship. It is sinking the rate and the pace is not visible to the fist class passangers in the ship. only the ground level staff now about the leakage. by the time the water reaches the top level of the ship. Captain can't do much...in our story Captain (ELT) with his Lieutenants will use the only helicopter on the ship to find a safe place and we (staff and other customers) will left to face the consequences. This is the story most big corporates. ELT is here to make money and not to build next Gen Cisco. ELT's motto is manage the company's image - by doing social services, take stand with polictical topics (like BLM or Ukraine) , we all know what is wrong and right, we are a global company. Everyone has different poiltical opinion but bringing ELT's view into the corporate is not good. lets focus on technology and gaining market share. we have losing everywhere - Wireless with Aruba, UCS with HP Greenlake, Security with Palo Alto and Frotinet, Storage switches MDS with Baracuda, Whole colleberation lost again Zoom and Microsoft, Viptela with Fortigate, Core routing with Juniper and AlcatelLucent (IXEs)..then we came up with solution based offers like SASE - difficult against CATOS, Versa, VMware, now late into the market with XDR - already dominate by Microsoft Sentinal, Google Chronical, Exabem, SentinelOne. We are losing the Mid and some large cap customers every quarter. I won't blame ELT, they get feeds from their SVPs and VPs who manipulates the numbers and data. ELT hardly knows about the ground reallity till the water level reach such a level.....Take care Engineers no one is going to resuce YOU! ( includinf me :-) )
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Scientific Atlanta was a horrific acquisition. Spending billions to enter the lucrative cable tv box market was mind boggling. Also pretty much every acquisition after 2008
Give me a break! Name one bad acquisition?
Lately, I have been feeling burnt out. I don’t mind the constant challenges but, even the easy redundant tasks are overwhelming me. Is it just me? Not here to bash the company or any individuals, and just wanted to hear your thoughts.