[c-nsp] Nexus 2000 vs Catalyst 4948 for access layer

[Ray Burkholder]

> 
> Business leaders are hearing a lot about cloud computing these days,
> and it's cost advantages to the business.  Yet there is a valid concern
> with data privacy and security that comes with public cloud computing.
> If internal IT can transform their data centers into a private cloud,
> or at least drastically improve the operational efficiency and total
> cost of ownership of their own data centers ... the wholesale
> outsourcing of the data center applications to the public cloud become
> less attractive to the business leaders.

I'm not quite sure I understand the impact of that last statement... "become
less attractive to the business leaders."  Is that a good thing or a bad
thing?  i.e, is going into the public cloud a good thing or a bad thing?
And if business leaders "transform their data centers into a private cloud",
isn't that still a private network?  Or are there additional ramifications
of this, i.e, going the virtualization path and making everything server
non-centric?

Ray


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