Comments on: Cisco Launches Services, Shows Off Its Hit List

By: BotchagalupeMarks for July 1st - 08:08 | IT Management and Cloud Blog

BotchagalupeMarks for July 1st - 08:08 | IT Management and Cloud Blog — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 06:23:11 +0000

[...] Cisco Launches Services, Shows Off Its Hit List – Cisco today outlined its plans for delivering IT services over the web (aka cloud services), and as part of a conference call, showed off a great slide that illustrates exactly how many companies this former networking gear maker wants to take on. [...]

By: Patrick Moran

Patrick Moran — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 05:44:03 +0000

Nice Piece. WebEx Connect was launched in September 2006, and hasn’t got any traction. Its a shame. Cisco is full of very smart people — they may figure this out yet… But meanwhile more nimble companies will out-innovate and potentially threaten their position… and dare I say it — actually make joining online meetings an easy, fun experience like many of the other web apps available on the market today! (I am biased as CMO of Fuze Meeting!)

@fuzemeeting

By: Hugh Carroll

Hugh Carroll — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:00:39 +0000

“But most folks want their clouds to interoperate today, not half a decade from now, so all of this is more hype than help” At Vordel we can offer cloud interoperability today via our Cloud Gateway:
http://www.vordel.com/news/press/30_06_09.html

By: Stacey Higginbotham

Stacey Higginbotham — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 12:38:15 +0000

Most of the slides shown were stock art. It may have been invite-only, but I’m not sure. The only other slide I recall was one I had seen before showing the growth potential of services in the cloud. It was primarily Q&A rather than a presentation.

By: David Robins

David Robins — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 11:40:08 +0000

This is good news. All these entries will make the cost of cloud computing lower for all of us. For at binfire.com we use our own servers, but we are seriously thinking of moving to one of infrastructure as a service providers.

By: Private Citizen

Private Citizen — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 04:19:32 +0000

Stacey -

Nice piece. Was this an invite only event? Do you have a copy of the slides that you can post?

Thanks -

Private Citizen

By: martin

martin — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 02:57:44 +0000

i am not a huge fan of cisco but i have to admin that 1/ 2 of the firms that i work with can not use gotomeeting (they actually block it) because of security risks and gotomypc … so webex is an excellent choice and have never had any issues over the last 6 years.

By: anon

anon — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:30:32 +0000

I really don’t see Cisco being a strong software player. Even the WebEx “platform” feels more opportunistic than actually a way in which companies will want to work. It has a nice desktop client, but lacks a real stickiness that cloud apps need. It would be great to have Cisco as a cloud player because they certainly have the hardware and management knowhow for infrastructure issues, but maybe they should stick with virtualization of infrastructure. Trying to take to the whole cloud stack will only expose their weaknesses in understanding software products.

By: anon

anon — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:07:01 +0000

Folks at Cisco should try gotomeeting and then revisit the whole webex thing. I was delighted when a webex session blew up for me, taking down not only my system but all the other laptops on the webinar that were running nvidia graphics, which was pretty much all the thinkpads. That was fun. Fortunately everyone thought it was Vista….