Excellent blog read by my friend and colleague!
Today istockanalyst and Network World speculated that Cisco would acquire the Citrix Networking (formerly ANG) line of products. Since the acquisition in 2003, Citrix has tried to brand itself as a Networking company AND a virtualization company. I recall talking with my Sales Manager and hearing her tell me how she needed to try to sell Netscalers to our incumbent Networking team where I was working at the time.
I have often referred to Network teams in organizations as the “Cisco Mafia” and explained to her that talking to the Network team about anything that was not F5, Juniper or Cisco may not bear a great deal of fruit. I recall several battles just to get my Netscalers implemented because I was “Load Balancing” on something other than Cisco and F5. I explained to them that what I had was a “Layer 7 switch” and that calling it a load…
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