Cisco Technology Solutions Keynote - Speech Notes
Cisco’s Technology Solutions day this year was another very interesting and exciting day. The highlight this year, again was the keynote speech, this time delivered by Adam Radford. It was thought provoking to the point I made extensive notes that I wanted to follow up later. Below is a semi-converted brain dump of some of Adam’s points.
* The law of Disruption / 2nd order effects
- The combination of Moore’s Law and Metcalfe’s Law
* “Work is what I do, not who I am” Peter Wink Huges
- Convergence
* Digital Immigrants defined as those born before the creation of a technology.
- Natives re-use and like open formats
- Immigrants rebuild and like closed box solutions
* Drivers towards Green Power through Data Centre Optimization and Collaboration.
- Looking at IEEE standards that don’t auto standby/fast re-active.
* Paypal has more members than AMEX
- Never leave home at all, AMEX’s motto is outdated
* Organization Structures Models.
- Layer 2 vs Layer 3 - Routing through management / delays added
- Creation of Wirearchy
* “Cisco has until now spelt GUI as CLI”
- Development of GUI management
* “Collaboration is about the sharing of Information and Knowledge”
* We are “paid for our acquirement, accumulation, and storage of knowledge”
* Dunbar’s Number - 150
- A theoretical maximum number whom a set of people can maintain a social relationship. Larger groups need rules/laws
* Architecture is the new Green.
- Green is the new Black
* Dealing with Darwin - Geoffrey Moore
- Core vs Context
- Resource Recycling
- The Operational Excellence Zone
* Design vs Architecture
- Design is details, device specific, directly environment related
- Architecture is high level, role specific, broad principles
* RFID in data centres for asset tracking
- Just a cool way to manage/locate assets
* “Collaboration power through diversity”
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