Posts by CaNerdIan

How many HPE staff does it take to pay for one CEO? 271

I think institutional ownership of the company is something like 85% of shares outstanding.

Cisco penta-gone from Pentagon as Aruba rolls in a new net

"This also means that Aruba will also replace ISE."

TFA stated as much when it said ClearPass was being deployed as part of the solution. Although Aruba will coexist just fine with ISE just as much as Cisco will coexist just fine with ClearPass. ClearPass was a vendor-agnostic product before Aruba acquired them a decade or so ago (as was Airwave).

But it's not just DODHQ - Aruba is also being widely deployed within the service branches as well (and has been for quite some time). HPE also sells a whole lot of supercomputing to various parts of the US federal government...

Cisco is making the strategic error of trying to compete on price, which is a race to the bottom every single time. And as others have pointed out, a lot of really long-time Cisco shops (whose incumbency rivals that of several very moldy politicians) are losing deals left and right, not just to Aruba, but also Juniper and some of the smaller players (and every now and the others lose a deal to Cisco, that's just how the game is played - but I've seen more than a few who switched to Cisco come crawling back to their previous vendor, deeply apologetic) - More and more customers have grown tired of Cisco's support licensing model - and in order to try and keep those customers, Cisco practically has to give away the hardware, even if it's below cost.