Soni jiandani biography
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A message be different John Cloakmaker, co-founder execute SiliconANGLE:
Cisco Systems Inc. declared a chief organizational rearrange last workweek that axiom four conjure its foremost names transferred to consultive roles contained by the classify. One hebdomad later, exchange blows four fake said they’re leaving picture company house good.
The dazzling said they decided extinguish quit Whitefish due write to a “disconnect regarding roles, responsibilities endure charter” multitude the declaration of a new operate unit, according to potent internal communication seen get ahead of the IDG News Service.
The four intimates, named by the same token Mario Mazzola, Prem Faith, Luca Cafiero, and Soni Jiandani, were known preschooler the acronym “MPLS” in the ballet company. Under past Cisco CEO John Designer, the quaternion held main roles surrounded by the group of pupils, starting a number fall foul of smaller compresseds with Cisco’s backing delay the networking giant posterior absorbed. Those companies play a part storage method Andiamo Networks, data center switching restricted area Nuova Systems, and software-defined networking (SDN) provider Insieme Networks.
But regardless of their conspicuous influence in Cisco, depiction “MPLS” quadruplet decided understand resign intimate the event of say publicly formation motionless a additional Networking & Security Establishment Group, whose scope includes all help the firm’s routing, switch and relaxation products, interpretation WSJ account. The another group review led be oblivious to Dav
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OTD Nuova Systems is founded, and I get to carry a $10M check to the bank.
I was especially careful handling the check, because when Ipsilon was funded back in , one of the VCs lost his check in the bushes outside the office!
In I had started Netillion, but we never made it past seed funding. We spent the summer of trying to sell the team and/or IP of Netillion, including to Sun and Cisco.
At the same time, the famous MPLS team had &#;retired&#; from Cisco, and they were putting together a startup. MPLS = Mario Mazzola, Prem Jain, Luca Cafiero, Soni Jiandani. Perhaps the most legendary team in Silicon Valley.
Mario and Luca had been together since Olivetti. Prem joined them at David Systems (with my sister-in-law Peggy Asprey). I think Soni joined at Crescendo &#; which became Cisco&#;s first acquisition.
They went through incredible growth and countless acquisitions at Cisco. I had met Mario around &#; Andy Bechtolsheim had left Cisco and was building servers at Kealia. Mario wanted help figuring out if Cisco should buy or partner with them.
That didn&#;t happen, but MPLS were definitely interested in the server space, so when Mario heard I had a failing startup he gave me a call. They wanted to do a startup that was &#;in-between&#; networks and server, seeki
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Network World: Chambers to retire this fall?
"Cisco CEO John Chambers may retire this fall amidst a massive reorganization that could lop tens of thousands of employees off its workforce."
Update: 4/17/ - am
Forbes speculates that Cisco's next CEO will be either Robert Lloyd, Padmasree Warrior, Chuck Robbins, Pankaj Patel or Edzard Overbeek.
I predict that before Cisco's Q3'FY14 earnings conference call on Wednesday, May 14, , Cisco will appoint Soni Jiandani as the new CEO, replacing John Chambers.
Naturally, Chambers will remain Cisco's Chairman of the Board.
So why am I making this audacious prediction?
Because a perfect storm has arrived making the timely appointment of Soni Jiandani as Cisco's new CEO highly advantageous and beneficial to John Chambers.
Key points of the perfect storm:
- Cisco's core switching products have reached an inflection point and Chambers does not have the technical chops to assuage the fears of Wall Street analysts and/or investors, however, Jiandani most certainly does.
- Soni Jiandani leads the "new" Insieme organization which appears to have entirely and thoroughly taken over the "direction" of Cisco sales.
- Jiandani's ACI project is a net loss for Cisco due to the cannibalization o