In reply to Rami Rammaha.

Yes, Rami, I did read the article. Let me quote if for those that have not:

“Don’t get distracted by some technology that’s got a lot of buzz and excitement about it. Because that’s when companies get into trouble.”

Whilst people who are yet to adopt the Cloud may indeed think it has "buzz and excitement", those of us that have in fact made the migration understand it represents a game changing approach to the consumption of IT, and the only feasible approach to make a meaningful reduction in the amount of time engineering teams spend managing infrastructure.

I manage an IT department responsible for hundreds of Catalyst switches, and tens of ASR and ISR G2 routers. I have a networking team, comprised of 1 design group, 1 implementation group, and 1 operations group. Whilst the operations staff have responsibilities other than networking, it still takes a team of 11 people to maintain the network.

I also have around 900 servers running on a large Cloud provider, want to know how many network engineers I have managing that environment Rami? Well I'll tell you, zero, it is all managed using the "infrastructure as code" methodology.

So let me ask you Rami, have you actually managed a meaningful workload running in the Cloud to genuinely appreciate the benefits it brings to an organization?

As I stated, I believe ACI and the 9K is a good first step, but you are focusing on the exact wrong area. The DC race has been run and won, companies will migrate to the cloud, the on-premise DC is dead, some people just have trouble accepting that.

Now the Enterprise network on the other hand, that is an environment that is crying out for a genuine SDN solution. Why do I still have engineers using a CLI to manage infrastructure in 2016? I can program a $12 Raspberry Pi using a SDK and an API, but my million dollar Cisco enterprise network doesn't provide even the most basic of programability, which is a huge missed opportunity.

But I digress, this blog post is about buffers, so my original statement stands. The title "Moving to Cloud? Intelligent Buffer Matters!" is misleading, incorrect, and I'm sure Chuck Robbins would say you are using "buzz and excitement" keywords to promote the post, doesn't that go 100% against what he said in the CRN article? You can't have it both ways Rami.