Should Cisco, Arista offer bare metal OSes a la Cumulus?

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New products of the week 11.10.2014 Nasuni raises the bar for hybrid cloud storage Network World Daily News AM November 10, 2014 Should Cisco, Arista offer bare metal OSes a la Cumulus? Should Cisco and Arista make like Cumulus Networks and develop versions of their operating systems for bare metal hardware? If the market shifts dramatically toward white box switching from brand name networking, they may have to.If they want to appeal to hyperscale cloud providers attracted to disaggregated networking elements, they might have to. And even though bare metal versions of Cisco NX-OS and Arista EOS would run on merchant silicon-based ODM hardware, the products would be an attempt to counter and mitigate the incursion of white box switches in their high-end, high-value accounts.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE   Issue highlights 1. New products of the week 11.10.2014 2. INSIDER Nasuni raises the bar for hybrid cloud storage 3. 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