Cisco has confirmed that Cliff Meltzer - Senior Vice President of the Cisco Network Management Technology Group (NMTG), has quietly left Cisco to pursue other opportunities.
Don Proctor - Senior Vice President of Cisco's Software Group, is serving as acting General Manager of the Cisco Network Management Technology Group until a new head of NMTG is named.
Additionally, Cisco told Network World that no reorganization of NMTG is in the works, as it will continue to be part of the Cisco Software Group.
 Since 2003, Meltzer had lead overall strategy for the network management market and was responsible for all Cisco network management products, applications-oriented networking, and the vision, strategy, and implementation of the Cisco Service-Oriented Network Architecture (SONA) framework. |
From 1993 to 1999, Meltzer had various leadership positions at Cisco, including Senior Vice President of the IOS Technologies group, where he was responsible for guiding the strategy, vision, and development of Cisco software; Vice President and General Manager of the Internet Service Provider Business Unit, where he was responsible for high end Cisco routers; and Vice President and General Manager of the InterWorks Business Unit, where he was responsible for guiding Cisco strategy and product development for the SNA migration market space.
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Probably a good thing for Cisco
I don't know if anyone else ever played with Cisco's Network Management suites, but they are marginal at best. Maybe this means they will bring in someone that can help develop some good network management software.
Cisco's Management Exodus
It just proves that Cisco is no longer a great place to work!
A bad thing? A Great Thing!
This is the best thing for Cisco - Network Management has been horrid, leadership lacking, vision lacking, execution lacking.
It starts at the top, if you can't get 1000 engineers to build a decent management product you don't belong in engineering management.
Same as it ever was
NMS has been poor at Cisco since 95. Cliff left once before didn't he? CiscoWorks and the effort they toss at it is just an after thought...