Rumor Cisco cloud web security (ScanSafe) going end-of-life (EOL) imminently

"Cisco's cloud strategy seems to have failed and instead moving to simply hosting boxes in a datacenter for customers. A model IronPort/WSA tried for email which led to tremendous losses for the company."

New York City:   Tue, 12/9/14 - 11:59pm    View comments
 

Received the following rumor:
 

"The Cisco Cloud Web Security (CWS) product is going to go end-of-life and it will be announced in the next several weeks (with support extended out to several years).
 

"It will be replaced with a UTM based cloud product, integrating ASA, Sourcefire, and the WSA/IronPort product. Combining such successful solutions makes sense and Cisco had only recently merged the ScanSafe/WSA TAC teams under a single manager per region, most likely in anticipation of the CWS product being EOL in favor of a appliance based cloud product.

"Cisco's cloud strategy seems to have failed and instead moving to simply hosting boxes in a datacenter for customers. A model IronPort/WSA tried for email which led to tremendous losses for the company."

Related stories:

Cisco Confidential: Q3 CY14 network security market share results

Leaked traffic figures show Cisco's cloud growth has become nonexistent

Cisco's top cloud expert and youngest board director resigns
 

What's your take?

1. Cisco discounts data center pricing -70%, collaboration -85%
2. Verizon white box trial adds color to collapse of Cisco service provider sales
3. Goldman Sachs envisions cloud computing infrastructure so commoditized it trades like pork bellies
4. Cisco 9-month switch sales plunge -$278 million while Arista's soar +$164 million
5. $188 million reasons why a Cisco customer needs a patent and copyright infringement indemnity agreement with Cisco
6. Cisco's Q1'FY15 gross margin, net income, EPS, operating cash flow and share repurchases declined year-over-year
7. Cisco funded patent troll, Finjan, sues Palo Alto Networks
8. Wall Street: Arista de-facto standard in data center networking
9. Cisco stealthily increases San Jose layoff by +11%
10. How to compromise a Cisco ASA
11. Understanding Cisco's volume purchase agreement (VPA) rebates
12. Nightmare Cisco customer product deployments
13. Cisco's rewarding top talent during the firing of 6,000 employees
14. Cisco's Frank D'Agostino questions credibility of VMware's Dominick Delfino
15. Huawei appears to be eating Cisco's lunch in Russia
16. Rumor DOJ fed up with the exorbitant amount of FCPA claims filed against Cisco
17. Leaked traffic figures show Cisco's cloud growth has become nonexistent
18. Niels Furu the EMEA sales vice president who delivered Cisco's highest gross margin has quit
19. Rumor Cisco has hired lawyer Richard J. Nelson to sue the world's most elite Cisco dealers
20. View the archive of Bloggers speak out on BradReese.Com