Rohit Mehra, IDC, with Dave Vellante and Stu Miniman at IBM Edge 2014
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Broadcasting live from IBM Edge 2014, currently taking place in Sands Convention Center, Las Vegas, Dave Vellante and Stu Miniman, theCUBE co-hosts, caught up with Rohit Mehra, VP of Network Infrastructure with the International Data Corporation (IDC), to talk about what’s driving cloud and data center infrastructure growth, networking and the transformation of enterprise IT.
“How would you describe where we are in the networking business?” asked Vellante, prompting Mehra to talk about industry changes in the past decade.
“Where we are right now, at the crossroads of mobile, social, what is happening with cloud and the datacenter and the velocity behind that, it is certainly a once-in-a-generation shift. The whole paradigm of how networks have enabled enterprise IT is about to shift, or is shifting as we speak,” answered Mehra.
Recounting the days of the PC revolution and the ascension of networking brands like Cisco, Vellante asked Mehra for his thoughts on how the company maintained its market position despite industry disruption, such as software-defined and newer technologies reaching the market.
“No networking discussion would be complete without noting where Cisco has been and where it is going,” opined Mehta. “Certainly they are under pressure in terms of what they bring to the table, and how their solutions are being deployed, traditionally, and what this new age enterprise and networking IT managers are looking for. This is the flexibility and agility that networks are really being required to deliver. Applications are really moving at a rapid pace, Big Data requirements are increasing very rapidly, so when it comes to datacenter networks, the needs are here and now.”
Mehta mentioned that datacenter people (cloud providers and enterprise networking managers alike) are looking for that increased level of agility and flexibility, not willing to give up on their reliability and scalability they have been accustomed to over the last two decades. To that extent, Cisco has served up this purpose, building what he called world-class, scalable networks that have met the needs of most enterprises and even cloud providers.
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Rohit Mehra, IDC, with Dave Vellante and Stu Miniman at IBM Edge 2014
@thecube
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Broadcasting live from IBM Edge 2014, currently taking place in Sands Convention Center, Las Vegas, Dave Vellante and Stu Miniman, theCUBE co-hosts, caught up with Rohit Mehra, VP of Network Infrastructure with the International Data Corporation (IDC), to talk about what’s driving cloud and data center infrastructure growth, networking and the transformation of enterprise IT.
“How would you describe where we are in the networking business?” asked Vellante, prompting Mehra to talk about industry changes in the past decade.
“Where we are right now, at the crossroads of mobile, social, what is happening with cloud and the datacenter and the velocity behind that, it is certainly a once-in-a-generation shift. The whole paradigm of how networks have enabled enterprise IT is about to shift, or is shifting as we speak,” answered Mehra.
Recounting the days of the PC revolution and the ascension of networking brands like Cisco, Vellante asked Mehra for his thoughts on how the company maintained its market position despite industry disruption, such as software-defined and newer technologies reaching the market.
“No networking discussion would be complete without noting where Cisco has been and where it is going,” opined Mehta. “Certainly they are under pressure in terms of what they bring to the table, and how their solutions are being deployed, traditionally, and what this new age enterprise and networking IT managers are looking for. This is the flexibility and agility that networks are really being required to deliver. Applications are really moving at a rapid pace, Big Data requirements are increasing very rapidly, so when it comes to datacenter networks, the needs are here and now.”
Mehta mentioned that datacenter people (cloud providers and enterprise networking managers alike) are looking for that increased level of agility and flexibility, not willing to give up on their reliability and scalability they have been accustomed to over the last two decades. To that extent, Cisco has served up this purpose, building what he called world-class, scalable networks that have met the needs of most enterprises and even cloud providers.
