Bought three companies and still have yet to get a revenue stream of any size. All the execs are still around (given more funding or moved back to IT). They're still entrenched at Telstra and haven't figured out how to back out of it. Old Chuck made a deal to give Telstra NGN for intercloud... looks like we screwed our customer here....
I wonder how many jobs this failed strategy cost us? Where's the accountability?
What does apple have anything to do with cloud?
Apple has over a billion active devices out there which require frequent software updates, downloads for over 130 billion apps, massive music and video sales and streaming as well as information and document backup and sharing, They have a significant private cloud infrastructure sitting behind iTunes, iCloud, the App Store and Siri, not to mention iMessage, Face Time and a large number of other apps. Over the years they've also leveraged companies like Akamai and Google to provide some of these capabilities.
That said, I'm seeing recent Mac-only quarterly revenue of $7.24B compared to Cisco total quarterly revenues in the $11B range, and even with Macs generating far more than half the revenue all of Cisco generates it's too piddly to bother maintaining and Apple has all but abandoned them. I can't see why they'd bother with the rounding error that is UCS even for internal use only.
Awesome. So it's not only that Cisco can't build a cloud, but they can't build and operate applications that run on a cloud either. Meraki runs on AWS and last I checked, AWS didn't have a huge outage when this took place.
Had no idea that Meraki didn't test changes before they pushed them out. Maybe to them CI/CD is the initials of the two folks on the change management webex that takes places every Tuesday afternoon.
Shinning cloud solution success here -> https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/08/06/cisco_meraki_data_loss/
Most of the directors were giving "stay on" packages in the $75-150k to hang around and not leave. The sad thing is these people could easily spin their failures as successes.
Tax write offs while Chuck is reading this post on his private jet you peasants.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4xg6WeB8_A
$2.1 Billion waste? Bah, that's nothing! $5 Billion waste (NDS), that's what I'm talking about! And Chuck is still at the helm.... a special kind of stupid.
What does apple have anything to do with cloud?
Rumour is they will be doing a deal with Apple to get out. Watch this space.