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Yep, he really does. For now.

Glad to hear you liked it. 👍

Haha! They’ve always had their alternative solutions. But they could very well be winners in all this.

Agreed. Would be healthy to have a proper counterweight to Cisco on the market. I am quite certain that HPE-Aruba-Juniper will have a better overall product/solution portfolio than Cisco. Then, it’s all about marketing and sales efforts. Gonna be super interesting! 😎

Thanks, mate! Maybe I will go full Supreme Leader next time. 😂

Awesome! Keep talking about private cloud and HCI! 💪😎

Thank you for your kind words, Nishanth! Glad to hear. I've been busy creating so stay tuned, there will be more very soon. 😎

Hehe, is there a possibility that they are all successful? 😉

Thanks for the suggestion - brilliant idea! I actually have been meaning to do just that for a long time but haven’t gotten to it…yet. But I promise to keep that on my list of todos. 👍

A company called KKR acquired VMware’s EUC business for $4B. Remains to be seen what comes out of that. www.crn.com/news/virtualization/2024/kkr-offers-4-billion-for-vmware-euc

Varsågod! 😆

My pleasure! 👍

Hi Eric! Interesting. Why do you think Juniper is dead?

​@@TechEnthusiastIncit's not dead, Mist as you mentioned is the goal. It would be terrible to alienate either Aruba or Juniper fans. It takes years for changes to be made to phase out products if that ever happens.

Totally agree. Both, Aruba and Juniper have their dedicated fan bases and it is going to be the most difficult task for HPE to execute the merger in a way that both continue to be happy. Having said that, there were a lot of sceptics about the HPE-Aruba merger too but HPE managed to do stellar job with that - one of the great success stories in the industry. But it will be a few notches more difficult this time. The easiest would be to let both of them continue to live their own lives (just add 'a HPE company' under each logo) but that's not what's going to happen, that is not what HPE spent $14B on. It is clear that HPE wants to integrate Mist into everything as soon as at all possible. And I want to see that too! Mist is awesome tech. But doing that will complicate the dynamics of the three companies. Finally, I am certain that the plans to integrate Mist into HPE and Aruba portfolios are already far. I would not be surprised...let me rephrase that...I am _expecting_ that at the time they announce closing of the deal, they will also announce big news about that integration.

@@TechEnthusiastInc I totally 100% disagree. A year after HPE took over aruba, they LOCKED me out of being able to download firmware for my aruba switches and wireless controller, disassociated my hwid from their portal and now all I see is NO ENTITLEMENTS. FUCK HP. I cant even download old firmware for my switches and not even my current firmware.

@@TechEnthusiastInc I 100% disagree with you. HPE locked me out of being able to download firmware for my existing Aruba switches firmware, made my existing entitlements for my wireless controller disappear, deleted the documentation, etc. That's not stellar. They totally screwed me. They also disassociated my HWID's from their portal as if I never was a customer. The first year was fine and I was able to download firmware and license files but now its like I was never even a customer. Not stellar. Nobody wants to fix it because I don't have a service contract with HPE. 50k down the drain as an individual and a business owner and im literally still paying that credit card balance. Yeah, totally friggin stellar.

Hi Li! Thanks for the good questions. Absolutely it is possible to achieve #1 and #2 at the same time. Actually, if you think about it, they go pretty much hand in hand. The more components and aspects of data center infrastructure you converge, the more difficult it becomes to bolt them together. It will be much easier to converge components if you have total control of the R&D, engineering and support. And to your second question, if you decide to go for HCI, I don't see any reason not to try to have both #1 and #2 always, with every case. Since if you take it to halfway and use some HCI solution that is not "all the way HCI", you will not get the full benefits of HCI. So, maybe better to consider traditional 3-tier approach at that point? That 50 to 1 terabyte is a result of some HCI solutions' data reduction algorithms like compression and deduplication. No data is lost, it is just compressed and duplicates removed. it is highly dependent on the type of data you are storing. Some data can not be reduced much, maybe some 4:1, while some data can be heavily reduced, maybe 200:1 or more. These techniques are not exclusive to HCI though, many storage arrays have similar features.

”LOL” Nope, unfortunately it didn’t. Hopeless optimist as I am…

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Agreed, Marcin. And as I mention in the video, my first reaction was that Juniper and Aruba are very similar, I didn't see the rationale behind this deal right away. And talking to people, that seemed to be the view most shared. However, taking a closer look at both companies, it got clear to me that these two companies complement each other more than overlap. And that's the main point I wanted to deliver with this video. Very much looking forward to what comes out of this!

Aruba was never carrier grade.

Thank you, Felix! Appreciated. Hahaha! Thanks for the tip. I'll start warming up mixing moves for my next trip to Vegas. 😎🕺

I refuse to accept that. Time and again technology has proved impossible possible and moreover, brought us solutions we couldn't even think about before. So, not only I think it is possible but probable that we will get to a point where growth will be sustainable using the correct technology. But what we need more is the help of decision makers. Both, political and business entities need to be working together on this, worldwide. Technology can't help if we don't let it.

Spot on, cod! I am stoked about this too. 🥳 I am not too familiar with Junipers portfolio so I'm curious, what specifically interests you about the device architecture and command line?

@@TechEnthusiastInc Juniper has their own unique command syntax, while hp and aruba have a command line more like Cisco. I'm wondering if Juniper will lose their OS and command line interface and their hardware lineup will be customized to hp? What will happen to hp and aruba syntax when it comes to configuration?

And is it your opinion that Junipers syntax is better? These are the good questions that we don't have answers yet. However, based on numerous comments by Antonio Neri and Rami Rahim, I do believe that they will be reasonable about integrating these three companies together. I mean, if one company's tech is clearly better, they will go with that, even if it means stepping on someone's toes. But...these are always tough and political decisions and for that reason it could go either way. Let's just keep our fingers crossed that the best tech and customers win! 🤞🤞

@@TechEnthusiastInc I think both approaches are not bad, each has its pros and cons, but I've always liked the juniper approach.

Sounds promising. Looking fiorward to learning more about their products and portfolio. 👏

Hmm…not familiar with those. Do you think they are viable alternatives to the whole VMware stack?

@@TechEnthusiastIncyes Huawei developed these especially to compete the market share of VMware. but must admit VMware still the best. But Huawei DCS and Fusion Compute is another alternative solution. And they still selling in socket based perpetual license.

Interesting. Haven’t seen them mentioned anywhere in the conversations about VMware alternatives. But will definitely have to check. Thanks for the tip! 👍

Happy to add comments !Thanks for your videos also bro !

My pleasure! 👏

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Thanks, Akshat! I think I might have been a bit slow off the grid releasing it, there were a lot of other videos about this on CZcams already. Anyway, glad that you found it. ;)

That’s an interesting scenario. 😉 Remains to be seen. But I agree, no-one else on the market has even close to as strong compute+networking combo as HPE after this deal closes. HPE is basically alone in that category. And with this acquisition HPE will take a huge leap forward with its quest to become a) the fourth cloud and b) a dominant player in enterprise tech AI. Super interesting times!

Same thought, Juniper has RoCE to combine Ethernet and infiniband for routing, so it’s a good deal from IOT to cloud infrastructure from greenlake services.

Agreed. Can’t wait to see what these two come up with. 👏

Thank you, Dafne!

Hi Murtadha! Thanks for the feedback. Glad to have you around! Technically HCI is very comparable, even identical, to what hypervisors do. For example, you can create a technical HCI solution only with VMware software, namely vSphere, vSAN and VNX. Actually VMware offers a HCI software stack to be use with OEM server vendors (like Dell, HPE and Lenovo) in order to offer complete VMware HCI solutions. They call these vSAN ReadyNodes. Where the difference to just server/storage virtualization come from is the way the whole hardware/software stack is managed and how warranty+support work. A true HCI solution is managed with a single user interface - you don't have to manage server, storage and networking separately from their own separate UIs. Also, the whole HCI node is under the same warranty and support contract. No need to call server, storage, network and software vendors separately in case of an issue. Hope this helps.

Thanks, Ary! Great having you around again. :) What's your feeling about all this?

Thank you, Jainudeen! Greenlake is super interesting. And it's already evolved A LOT from the times I made this video. ;)

Well, depends on your goals. It can all be done after "the private cloud as been built". IaaS and PaaS are a bit different things. They are service models, meaning the whole envionment is being maintained and supported, maybe even operated and managed by someone else and you pay a monthly fee for the service. But you are right, this would be an interesting continuum to this video. I need to add that to the list. Thanks for the suggestion and for your kind words! 🙏

Thank you very much, Saby! Glad to hear you liked it.

Hehe, you are right, NVIDIA seems to be the company everyone wants to team up with when it comes to AI.

Very true but it's the same story with everything that's centralised. That's why you should never trust just one data centre. When designing these kinds of solutions, you should always have a secondary site and preferably a tertiary one or some other plan for outages and failures.

Yes, we could build redundancy for sure but redundancy doesn’t work always. I know this because I have experience of datacenters. For eg. take critical services like whatsapp, youtube, instagram etc. Companies like Facebook spend millions building redundancy and resiliency but still outages happen. My point is, that in case of VDI the result of outage of datacenter services is very severe where everyone stops working. I think there may be specific use cases for VDI but those success stories should be documented that VDI made difference for a certain use case including outages which had minimal impact on business.

Outages happen in all IT systems, large and small, centralised and distributed. Nothing is 100.0%. It is IT's responsibility to take the appropriate and balanced measures between usability, security and availability. Now, VDI/EUC can improve overall usability, security and availability in many cases. As an example of this, the Netherlands Cancer Institute that I mentioned in the video. It is just one of many VDI success stories. On the other hand, with some other cases VDI might be a terrible option. There is no one solution to rule them all. All I wanted to do with this video is increase awareness of VDI since to my experience, many people don't necessarily realise that VDI might be a viable solution for them.