VMware and Cisco, Reality catching up with Perception

To win people over, some people will say anything to get you on their side.  It is interesting to see Barack Obama the anti-war president ready to launch a limited strike against Syria (sounds like war to me).  Obama is shifting to win the public.  

I've been researching advanced communication ideas and spent time on Linguistics which leads me to Noam Chomsky.

Avram Noam Chomsky (/ˈnoʊm ˈtʃɒmski/; born December 7, 1928) is an American linguist, philosopher,[9][10] cognitive scientist, logician,[11][12] and political commentator and activist. Working for most of his life at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he is currently Professor Emeritus, he has authored over 100 books on various subjects.

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He is credited as the creator or co-creator of the Chomsky hierarchy, the universal grammar theory, and the Chomsky–Schützenberger theorem. Chomsky is also well known as a political activist, and a leading critic of U.S. foreign policy, state capitalism, and the mainstream news media. Ideologically, he aligns himself withanarcho-syndicalism and libertarian socialism.

Noam sees US electoral politics as a marketing exercise. 

“[It's] understood by the people who run the political system, that it’s no great secret that the U.S. electoral system is mainly a public relations extravaganza to keep away from issues,” he said. “It’s sort of a marketing affair. And the people who run it are the advertisers.”

Chomsky adds that this was self evident, because the Hope/Change message won a marketing award before the election was even over.

“If you go they were reporting how executives were really excited that they had this new model how to delude people. They used to use the Reagan-model now [they] can use the Obama-model.”

GigaOm's Barb Darrow writes on VMware's relationship with Cisco catching up with the reality of virtualization of the network initiative NSX.

Already complex, the VMware-Cisco relationship just got more, um, complicated

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Will VMware’s NSX network virtualization effort finally push Cisco and VMware to divorce? Stay tuned.

The whole VMware-Cisco-EMC triumvirate — formally embodied in the VCE virtual computing environment effort — has been stressed by competitive pressures between the partners pretty much from the get-go a few years ago. But things got more tense this week with VMware’s launch of its NSX network virtualization lineup at VMworld 2013. Cisco, a huge networking hardware vendor, was conspicuously absent from the list of partners supporting NSX.

ZDNet's Larry Dignan writes on how VMware is rallying the Cisco competitors.  Has VMware figured out the market is ready to switch off of Cisco?

VMware's NSX, partners aim to surround Cisco

Summary: VMware has partnered with Cisco's biggest rivals to spread its NSX virtualized networking platform around data centers.

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VMware on Monday launched VMware NSX, its network virtualization platform via its Nicira purchase, and telegraphed how it is hoping to surround Cisco in the data center.

NSX aims to virtualize networking and be a cog in VMware's vision of a software-defined data center. As noted when VMware bought Nicira, the company is hoping to virtualize networking like it did servers. VMware NSX will be available in the fourth quarter and launched with 20 partners.

Sometimes the technology industry can look like politics.  Cisco is the incumbent and there is enough momentum to push them out and people see the market they can win.

Disclosure: I work part time for GigaOm as a freelance analyst.

Telling a Construction Story worth watching, Construction of Disneyland

We have all seen videos of construction projects.  But almost none tell a story worth watching.  Here is one created by Disney from the beginning of Walt Disney on site, his input, approaches used, issues that came up, and the end results.

It is hard to do tell a story well, and the folks at Disney are professionals at telling stories so they have an advantage.

Here are a few screen grabs.

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Walt with in a tower to get a perspective.

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Roy Disney is on site and captured.

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Lack of Transparency rallies locals to drive for public review of Newark, DE power plant and data center

Newsworks has a post on an upcoming public meeting to review plans for a 248 MW natural gas plant.

“Initially we received a lot of pushback from city officials that they were not going to have a public meeting until final plans had been submitted to the city. And clearly, if final plans are submitted where is there opportunity for the public, or neighbors, to have a voice in shaping those plans,” asked Amy Roe, an activist with the Sierra Club here in Delaware.

Roe says it's hard to say if plans for the data center are objectionable because very little information has been made publicly available, but "it’s the power plant that’s causing concern.”

The data center company and local government look like they were trying to sneak something by the public.

Those concerns were magnified, Roe says, by the city's seeming lack of transparency throughout this entire process. 

“I’m worried about the silence from the city on this project," Roe said. “To learn that your town government has been negotiating for a year for this and none of the neighbors know is very worrisome.”

Newark's Community Affairs Officer Dana Johnston says the city has nothing to share since plans have not been officially submitted. Johnston says the city is simply providing publicity and a space for Tuesday's meeting, where TDC will provide more substantive answers.

Emails sent to TDC asking how much the proposed project will cost and when final plans will be submitted have yet to be returned. 

I guess this is a big enough deal because on the web site http://www.cityofnewarkde.us is this notice.

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A film to evaluate your purpose, After The Rain

I found the film After the Rain on Youtube.

The story is about Ronin looking for a new master, a lord to serve.  He has a problem holding a job as he has compassionate for all and will do what is right vs what is tradition.  There are life lessons embedded in the middle and end.  The movie was written by Akira Kurosawa.

After the Rain (雨あがる Ame agaru?) is a 1999 Japanese film. The story is based on the last script written by Akira Kurosawa and is directed by his former assistant director of 28 years, Takashi Koizumi. It was awarded a Japanese Academy Award in 1999. It was chosen as Best Film at the Japan Academy Prizeceremony.[2]

A group of travelers is stranded in a small country inn when the local river floods. As the bad weather continues, tensions rise amongst the travelers trapped at the inn. A traveling ronin (masterless samurai), Ihei Misawa takes it upon himself to cheer everyone up by arranging a splendid feast. Unfortunately he has no money and in order to pay for the feast he visits the local dojos and challenges the masters there for payment, termed in the film as prize fighting. Later, after breaking up a duel between two young retainers of the local clan he receives an offer of employment as a sword master from the local lord, Shigeaki. He has a tense interaction with the lord and his retainers, revealing his prowess at their expense. The film also shows the tender relationship he has with his wife, Tayo, and provides insights into the way of life of a ronin's wife.

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Training Information to be your companion

I have the book Training People for a while.  The book is a humorous view from a dog's perspective of training people to be their companions.

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Training People: How to Bring Out the Best in Your Human Paperback

by Tess of Helena (Author)

For centuries, dogs have known that they, not humans, run the show. But not all dogs know how to get the best from their people. Finally, from the leading expert in the field comes a straightforward, easy-to-use manual that's written for dogs by a dog. This indispensable reference provides foolproof advice on obtaining everything a dog deserves, from the best food and exercise to grooming and chauffeur services. Here are all the tools a dog needs for selecting, training, and living with a well-behaved human.

Some of our good friends are dog people and what I have noticed lately is how they interact and care for their dog has a close relationship to many other things in life.

The funny idea that came to mind that I am going to see if it works is applying the Idea of Training People to reversing the role and having people think about "Training Information." 

I'll keep on playing with this idea of Training Information and see if it goes anywhere.