By Greg Ness (InfoBlox)

The much anticipated divorce between Cisco and HP that was announced in recent weeks is a harbinger for the network equipment industry.  Note Alexander Wolfe’s comments from his Wolfe’s Den blog:

Cisco has made what can only be characterized as an aggressive move emphasizing its strategic surge from a networking-centric vendor into a unified computing powerhouse.

Earlier in February Wolfe interviewed HP about their entrance into the infrastructure 2.0 category:

This may be the most astute move yet that HP has taken to blunt the high profile Cisco has achieved with its Unified Computing System, a competing Infrastructure 2.0 play, which similarly combines servers and networking.

Cisco and HP have made it clear to their investors, customers and employees that IT is being swept up into a new era of converged computing, driven by a host of new pressures, including virtualization and consumerization and increasing populations of IP addresses and network-enabled appliances.

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