Unlocking the Potential of Virtualization
TranscriptROBB BOYD: Explosive growth in under-utilized, costly servers and storage is stretching the limits of cooling, power and floor space while the cost of capital needed to support this growth is increasing. It's true, we need to do more with less and we have answers for you on how to do this from a data center perspective. Welcome, my name is Robb Boyd and this is Jimmy Ray Purser. Today's topic, unlocking the potential of virtualization. So, if we're going to unlock that potential I think we've got to understand some of these problems, right? JIMMY RAY PURSER: Yes sir, we do. ROBB BOYD: So, as it takes off virtualization is big, everybody is doing it. At the same time we're starting to feel like, you know what, we're uncovering new problems that we have to deal with. JIMMY RAY PURSER: Yes. ROBB BOYD: You open one door, but yet another one closes on you. JIMMY RAY PURSER: That paradigm shift, right? Any time you add a new technology kind of the ripple effect of that rolls somewhere else on the network. ROBB BOYD: Here's one of my concerns, you always think here we are, Cisco, we're a networking company and we're claiming to have some answers to unlock virtualization, which is a server technology because we're talking about server virtualization. Is that a little bit cocky also to say we're going to just start virtualizing our things? Does that sound kind of bandwagon approach-ish? JIMMY RAY PURSER: Well, you know what, here's the thing though, it depends how you look at that. A good network engineer, the answer is almost always going to be it depends, right? ROBB BOYD: It depends, there... JIMMY RAY PURSER: It's like you shook the little magic eight ball and you get the it depends and you're like err, and you throw it against the wall. ROBB BOYD: There's only one answer in that ball, yes. |
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