Whatever happened to our WAN Optimization throw down from two years ago?
Do you remember back in April of 2008 when I put a challenge out to Cisco, Blue Coat, Riverbed and Juniper for an old fashion throw-down at Interop? Well I have never forgotten and am still hopeful that it will happen one day, but then I woke up from a dream. Interop is the best place for a test like this and everyone knows it. Read more
10Gbps Routing + Security for under $5k, and it's not from Cisco or Juniper
Vyatta has been out for some time and has been doing a good job at providing open source routing and switching to the masses. They have been besting Cisco in the branch/data center space with a better product and price, now they have brought that to the enterprise and service provider space with the release of the 3500 Series Router/Firewall.
In this blog we are going to take a look at a comparison between Cisco and Vyatta on price and technical specifications, then ask why are companies not saving money with Vyatta?
The Vyatta 3500 Series Router and Firewall: Read more
Staying a Cisco Channel Partner is a tough choice.
Over the last six months I have been wondering what I should do as a company with our Cisco partnership. To be honest, Cisco is not the easiest company to work with as a partner and that bothers me. I have sent a few emails to people at Cisco and two executives with no reply back other than an SMB Account Manager. Read more
Top 10 areas that CIOs needs to focus on for 2010
I speak to executives from all over the world and the question I've been asked a lot in the past two months is “Larry, how can I improve our image?” Image is everything, I tell my customers, and it is a reflection on your management style. It makes no difference if you are a CIO or in sales, whatever your area your work is a reflection on you and your skills. Given this, I've come up with a list of the Top 10 Areas That CIO should focus on in 2010 to improve their images, and ultimately, their departments. Read more
It’s the discount game, have you been caught up in it and made a huge mistake?
So it is Interop time in New York City and I was not planning on attending as I have been busy with customers. But, as it happens, I am in New York this week presenting to customers. So, I was asked to come and have breakfast with a group of CXOs (four CEOs, two CFOs and seven CIOs) from New York, and enjoyed a good conversation with them. One of the topics of discussion: discounts. Read more
Did Cisco learn from its press mistakes from the last Cisco Live event?
I received the e-mail below as a Cisco Partner, but I am wondering if Cisco will learn from its press mistakes from last year? You all remember when this was an invitation only event and the press did not get invited even if they were paying their own way to cover the event. Read more
Is LinkedIn's new save profile feature worth the upgrade fee?
LinkedIn has added a new feature to all profiles that it calls “save----profile.” This allows you to add the profile to a list you have created or one that LinkedIn has created. You can also add some notes.
Below is a screen shot of what the new feature looks like. You can have it for 30 days free, but if you like it, you'll have to pay for the upgrade to continue to use it.
My misadventures with an AT&T 3G card in New York
I have been traveling with my AT&T 3G card for a while now and it is always a horrible experience when I travel to LA, NY, Chicago and DC. It works fine when I am in my home city, connects every time and the speed is ok (but not close to 3G speed). But I was just in NY again and could not even get data when using it. Read more
Lawsuit over Magic Quadrant raises questions
Many emails have been sent to me about the lawsuit brought forward by ZL Technologies against Gar-ner. The San Jose-based ZL Technologies accuses Gar-ner of "defamation, trade libel, false advertising, unfair competition, and negligent interference with prospective economic advantage." (I won't use the company's full name in my blog anymore since the firm contacted me last summer.) Read more
Why do I think Cisco a better choice over Blue Coat?
Being asked why I would take Cisco over Blue Coat in a choice of vendors and products has led me to the following reasons. I would hope that the marketing teams of both companies who take so much time out of their days posting to other blogs would take the same amount of time to post to this blog. We invite them to reply to this blog and shine some light on their products. (Disclosure: Pluto Networks is a Cisco Reseller for VoIP, but not the WAAS)
Five Reasons I Pick Cisco over Blue Coat Read more
Did Riverbed just put a big move on Cisco with release of 6.0?
Today Riverbed tried to take a huge leap over Cisco, Blue Coat and Juniper by releasing RIOS 6.0. This biggest part of this announcement is the optimization for Mac clients. This will provide a new market for the company of which they have not had for the last six years. Later this week we are doing a question and answer session with Bob Gilbert of Riverbed on this new release and what it really means to the company and the competition. This will be published in a new blog by Friday. (Disclosure notice: Larry Chaffin is a Riverbed reseller.) Read more
Tandberg Holders To Reject Cisco Bid Offer, someone said no to Cisco?
While I was on a 5am Telepresence call with EMEA, this was sent to me buy someone on the call, they said I hope thats not a Tandberg Telepresence Unit you are using Larry, lol.
A group of 24% of the Tandberg shareholders say no to Cisco and that the company would be better off no a Cisco company. This comes from Swedish brokerage SEB Enskilda, which represents the 21 shareholders in the Norwegian company. So what does this say to Cisco? Have these shareholders seen what Cisco does with its acquisitions and don't want to see Tandberg go down the drain as another Cisco Company? Read more
Juniper buying Riverbed? It is the rumor on the financial web sites today.
Could Vidyo trump LifeSize new desktop and Passport?
Vidyo the up and comer in the Telepresence segment have come out with its own SMB version of their product. The new VidyoOne Package is aimed at small business so they can also have Personal Telepresence at the desktop. That's right I said the desktop since Vidyo does not need an appliance as it works as a software package on your computer so there is no need to carry an appliance around. A Vidyo Router in the data center is all you need. Read more
LifeSize brings Passport to the masses with new small appliance, fits in the palm of your hand.
Today LifeSize announced a new appliance that brings full 720p HD telepresence to the palm of your hand. It is the only HD telepresence appliance to work with Skype. Being that this is a small appliance it will work great with remote workers, workers who travel or even for small businesses. Below is the information on the new Passport which is coming in at a price of less than $2500.
Has Cisco gone too far?
Last week I read this blog on the Riverbed website:
http://blog.riverbed.com/2009/09/thank-you-cisco-thank-you-miercom.html Read more
A month has gone by and no apology from Gar-ner, arrogance is bliss.
It has been a month since I posted the blog called "When censorship goes too far, we cannot say Gar-ner anymore". Since then I have received many email about Gar-ner and how really no one likes them for what they do. I am still waiting on a reply from Gar-ner about the email they sent to me, I have responded back to the email four times but never get a reply. I have sent an email to some C-Level Executives but it seems they never read the email. Read more
Chambers gets 2 Million after net income falls 24% from last year , wish I ran my company like that.
This is the SEC Filing which spells out who got what, and it was not just Chambers who got money.
http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/858877/000119312509187835/d8k.htm
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Frank Calderoni ($900,000)
Wim Elfrink, executive vice president, Cisco Services and chief globalization officer ($1 million)
Randy Pond, executive vice president, operations, processes and systems ($900,000) Read more
Authors are now going to Guru to have content written
I was sent this on Guru.com, seems like someone cannot do their own work and now is trying to get someone else to write it. Whatever happened to writing your own articles or books and taking pleasure in it? Now we have too many people doing this and taking credit as an expert in a book or web site. This just is not right. Next it will be certifications and people finding a way around it.
Makes you wonder if you can ever trust people or what they write now.
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WI-FI Service on airlines does has a long way to go, could Chambers buy Airline WI-FI Company?
I was on a flight recently and that airline had in flight WI-FI, so while I was sitting in first class I decided to give it a try since I had lots of room to work. At first I was all happy of the idea, that I could get all of my news, email and do some searches while on a 6 hour flight. But then you figured out everyone else is doing the same thing. The service got really slow, really fast to the point I was about to turn it off when I tried my vpn. My first trying did not work, but then I tried my backup vpn on a different port and it worked. Read more
- About Putting Realism Into Your Network
Larry Chaffin Ph.D is the Chief Executive Officer/Chairman and founder of Pluto Networks, a Consulting and VAR partner specializing in WAN Acceleration, VoIP, WLAN, Telepresence and Security and a Riverbed reseller. Pluto Networks specializes in the needs of small, large and enterprise companies by always giving them a great ROI on the products they sell. Pluto Networks has a presence in 23 countries around the world enabling all of its consultants to be virtual. Larry was a Judge at Interop for the Best of Interop Awards for 2009 and is looking forward to the 2010 awards in Las Vegas.
Larry has also co-authored all of the books listed below:
Managing Cisco Secure Networks, Skype Me, Practical VOIP Security, Configuring Check Point NGX VPN-1/Firewall-1,Configuring Juniper Networks NetScreen & SSG Firewalls,Essential Computer Security: Everyone's Guide to Email, Internet, and Wireless Security, How to Cheat at Microsoft Vista Administration, Microsoft Vista for IT Security Professionals, Asterisk Hacking, 2008 VoIP and Video Conferencing, Infosecurity 2008 Threat Analysis and author of Building a VOIP Network with Nortel's MS5100, along with co-authoring/ghost writing eleven other technology books for VIOP, WLAN, security and optical technologies. Larry is currently working on a follow up to Building a VoIP network with Nortel's MCS 5100 Book as well as new books on Cisco Telepresence Networks, Practical VoIP case studies and WAN Acceleration with Riverbed.
Larry also has more than 29 vendor certifications and has been working on many others. Larry has been a principal architect around the world in 22 countries for many Fortune 100 companies designing VoIP, security, wireless and optical networks. He has expanded over time also to include application acceleration. Larry is working with worldwide company now out of Asia as a Special Assistant to the CEO and CIO as they go through organizational and network changes, helping them with strategic advice from his years or experience. Pluto Networks is a channel partner of Cisco, ProCurve, LifeSize, Riverbed, Call Copy, Fastsoft and Symantec.
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