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Is Cisco preparing to kick CCIEs to the curb?

Perhaps most alarming for Cisco CCIEs, in the below video at the 7:50 time mark, Cisco's Senior Vice President, IT — Global Infrastructure Services, John Manville, makes a strong case for kicking CCIEs to the curb in order to achieve a lower total cost of ownership (TCO) for his Cisco network. I mean, is Cisco prepping CCIEs for inclusion on the endangered species list?

Hummelstown, PA:   Fri, 8/9/13 - 4:49pm    View comments
 

Less than 48-hours ago, I blogged that Cisco's Senior Vice President, Strategy and Planning, Worldwide Operations, Inder Sidhu, had quietly disappeared from Cisco's prestigious Mount Rushmore (i.e. the Cisco executive bios web page), speculating that such a disappearance is not a good signal for an executive's career at Cisco.

Presto, today Inder Sidhu has now magically reappeared on Cisco's Mount Rushmore, which is a very good thing for his Cisco Career.

Sidhu's reappearance should have brought the Cisco Mount Rushmore count to 65, but the new count now totals 67, that obviously means 2 more executives along with Sidhu have now joined Cisco's most prestigious web page.

View for yourself these 3 new additions:

Screenshot of Cisco's Mount Rushmore at 8:25am on Thursday, August 8, 2013 when the executive count totaled only 64.

Screenshot of Cisco's Mount Rushmore at 2:39pm on Friday, August 9, 2013 with the executive count now totaling 67.

The first of the two executives joining Inder Sidhu on Cisco's Mount Rushmore is Cisco Senior Vice President, Global Collaboration, Carl Wiese, who joins a growing and perhaps unwieldy crowd (now numbering four) of Collaboration executives featured on Cisco's Mount Rushmore: Marthin De Beer - Cisco's Senior Vice President, Video and Collaboration Group. Rowan Trollope - Cisco's Senior Vice President and General Manager, Collaboration Technology Group. Sheila Jordan - Cisco's Senior Vice President, IT - Communication and Collaboration. Carl Wiese - Cisco's Cisco Senior Vice President, Global Collaboration.

The second of the two executives joining Inder Sidhu on Cisco's Mount Rushmore is Cisco Senior Vice President, IT — Global Infrastructure Services, John Manville.

He leads the strategy and operations for the networks and data centers that provide technology infrastructure services for Cisco's global workforce of more than 65,000 people.

Perhaps most alarming for Cisco CCIEs, in the below video at the 7:50 time mark, Cisco's Senior Vice President, IT — Global Infrastructure Services, John Manville, makes a strong case for kicking CCIEs to the curb in order to achieve a lower total cost of ownership (TCO) for his Cisco network.

I mean, is Cisco prepping CCIEs for inclusion on the endangered species list?

"In the operations, we (i.e. Cisco) can't afford to keep hiring more and more CCIE level technicians to work on the infrastructure. And so what we have to do there is to automate a lot of the ongoing operations as well and make parts of the network more self-healing and understand issues in the network and then put some policies in to address those issues. And so overall I think its going to specifically address the implementation and the operations part of the TCO model."
 

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Is Cisco prepping CCIEs for inclusion on the endangered species list?

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