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Network Break 78: Cisco Lights Spark; Microsoft Hugs Linux

Drew Conry-Murray March 14, 2016

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Take a Network Break! Cisco lights a Spark to take another run at unified communications and blunt Slack’s momentum, buys a small startup to make Spark more searchable, and touts a favorable finding in its patent battle with Arista.

Microsoft announces SQL will run on Linux, and rolls out a cloud switch OS that it will bring to the Open Compute Project.

Not to be left out, Google announces its own plan to finally join the Open Compute Project, and shares a new hardware rack specification with the project.

Network Break brought in three guests to help fill in while Greg was away. Many thanks to Russ White, Denise Donohue, and Tom Hollingsworth for top-notch pontification and erudite analysis!

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Show Notes:

Cisco Lights A Spark

Doubling Down on Cloud Collaboration, Cisco Invests $150M for Developers and Delivers Cisco Spark Service – Cisco Systems

Cisco Announces Acquisition of Synata – Cisco Systems

Cisco Vs. Arista – The Next Round

Protecting Innovation: ITC Releases Detailed Ruling and Remedy – Cisco Systems

Microsoft, Linux, and Open Compute

Announcing SQL Server On Linux – Microsoft

Microsoft Provides Open Source Cloud Switch Software – SDX Central

SONiC FAQ – Microsoft

Google Joins Open Compute Club

Google joins Facebook’s Open Compute Project, will donate rack design – Ars Technica

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About Drew Conry-Murray

Drew Conry-Murray has been writing about information technology for more than 15 years, with an emphasis on networking, security, and cloud. He's co-host of The Network Break podcast and a Tech Field Day delegate. He loves real tea and virtual donuts, and is delighted that his job lets him talk with so many smart, passionate people. He writes novels in his spare time. Follow him on Twitter @Drew_CM or reach out at drew.conrymurray@packetpushers.net.

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  1. Alan Wijntje says

    March 16, 2016 at 9:23 AM

    Just wanted to drop a line to point out the intechwetrust podcast (http://intechwetrustpodcast.com/e/077-microsoft-loves-linux/) which also delved into the Microsoft Linux “hug”…

    Interesting point was the discussion on if Microsoft is looking to disaggregate it’s application from the OS in the long run (think 10+ years) opening up new revenue streams and lining up more with customer expectations about application portability.

    Would be interesting to get your views on this as a long term strategy from Microsoft.

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    • Drew Conry-Murray says

      March 16, 2016 at 2:12 PM

      Hi Alan,

      Thanks for the comment. I touched briefly on Microsoft disaggregating from its OS in a blog, but I’ll speculate here too:

      There’s no longer a strategic advantage in a tightly-coupled OS/application stack, especially when it comes to the cloud and mobile, and even more so as containers and microservices take over the world. More development efforts are shifting to cloud and mobile, and Microsoft knows it can’t dictate the OS layer there. Rather than try to fight the inevitable, I think the company recognizes that its applications have to run on any platform if it wants to stay relevant. I would be surprised if it takes them 10 years, or even 5. They don’t have that much time.

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