Cute adorable Cisco has become the target of data center switch vendor Arista Networks

Is it fair to compete with cute little elephants on price?

BusinessWeek reported last week that data center networking switch vendor - Arista Networks, is taking direct aim at the data center market share of Cisco Systems:

Gunning for an Elephant in Silicon Valley

Why is the data center market share of cute adorable Cisco at risk?

Well, according to BusinessWeek:

Arista's switches, computers that direct traffic around the Net, are less than half the price of comparable Cisco products. Lane Patterson - chief technology officer of data center company Equinix, says Arista's equipment can be one fifth the cost, "a phenomenally compelling price." Its gear also runs on cutting-edge software that analysts say has advantages over Cisco's 20-year-old software, IOS. Arista's software has the potential to run more kinds of programs and won't crash if one gets a bug.

What's your take, can Arista take data center market share from cute adorable Cisco based on price?

BradReese.Com Cisco Refurbished - Services that protect, maintain and optimize Cisco hardware
Contact: Brad Reese | Twitter: http://twitter.com/BradReese

1. Will Cisco create a Tandberg channel partner stampede over to Polycom?
2. Press release snafu burned $2 million per day of Nortel creditor cash
3. Did the market for Cisco TelePresence hit a brick wall?
4. Why aren't more people using Cisco's IP SLA?
5. Juniper is about to make a strategic blunder
6. A 10 year historical perspective on the worldwide CCIE count
7. Zero Security CCIEs have been added to the worldwide CCIE count over the past three months
8. John Chambers slams Cisco with $2.3 million in private jet expense
9. Cisco's taking a beating in the Carrier Ethernet Switch/Router market
10. Should you steer clear of grey market Cisco CCIE training companies?
11. What's the biggest firewall issue for enterprises?
12. Are Janus Friis, Niklas Zennstrom and Mike Volpi the three stooges of tech litigation?
13. Vote for the best Cisco NetFlow hip-hop video on YouTube
14. Cisco retail collaboration benefits calculator
15. Skype is on its way to becoming one of the most important companies in the world
16. The sordid tale of Cisco's new board director Arun Sarin and disgraced Wall Street analyst Henry Blodget
17. Is the new Cisco Product Quick Reference Guide destined for the New York Times Best Seller list?
18. Can you see John Chambers directing Cisco to buy Alcatel-Lucent?
19. F5 clobbers Cisco in application delivery controller market share
20. View Brad Reese on Cisco Story Archives

• Cisco
• Data Center
• LANs / WANs
• Lane Patterson - chief technology officer of data center company Equinix