Cisco CEO: 'Government regulation of IT will not achieve intended objectives'

Cabling Tweets' top 10 Tweets for Tuesday, October 23, 2012:

In a wide ranging talk conducted just before noon on October 23 at the Garnter Symposium/ITExpo 2012 in Orlando (1), Gartner's Richard Hunter and David Willis took the stage (2) to interview Cisco CEO John Chambers.

Mincing no words, Chambers said that "over the next 5 years the fabric of IT will be deeply embedded with every business process (3)."

"Of the top 6 IT vendors, only three or four will be in top six 5 years from now," he added (4). "Any of the top 6 vendors who think they will be in top 6 in next 5 years are probably wrong," the Cisco CEO reportedly said (5) -- owing to the "magnitude of the changes" that stand before the telecom and datacom industries in the coming years.

To that end, at the talk, Chambers' main contention (6) was that "the Internet of Everything will be the platform of the future" -- to which he added provocatively (7) that "government regulation of IT will not achieve [its] intended objectives."

And that wasn't all, in terms of provocative networking industry takes from the Cisco chieftain -- just see his reported comments on competitors Oracle (8) and HP (9).

"When I compete, even with friends, I compete to win (10)," said the Cisco CEO.

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-- Matt Vincent, Senior Editor

Enterprise BYOD heroes; Cisco data center woes; Cool cars meet cool Icelandic data centers

CablingTweets' Top 5 Cabling Industry Tweets for October 11, 2012:

Heads up IT security managers(1)! You can look like a hero if you lead your organization's charge to establish enterprise BYOD policies -- despite any physical infrastructure challenges you may encounter.

If the prospect of this leaves you "searching" for answers, you know where to turn (2).

To that end, did you know (3) that "Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Facebook buy more networking hardware than practically anyone else on earth? But at the same time, they’re buying less and less gear from Cisco, HP, Juniper, and the rest of the world’s largest networking vendors?" So writes Wired's Cade Metz in a recent exclusive article.

Related news: HP's enterprise services business tumbles

Moving from "discussion" to "call-to-action", how about...Smart Cities (4)! As addressed by Cisco -- who given the claim just made above, you can maybe see feeling impelled to make just that sort of move. (Come to think of it, Cisco's been boogieing quite a bit these days in the big-time data center space -- see the company's recent fast breakaway from Huawei-ZTE for selling critical facilities equipment to Iran.)

Cooler heads prevail elsewhere in the industry -- for instance, as in Iceland's modular data center space (5). It begs the question, which is cooler -- the cars or the facilities?

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-- Matt Vincent, Senior Editor