Cisco And That Burning Platform Again

I've written before about the difficulties legacy networking vendors have in remaining relevant in a world that sees there primary product (proprietary solutions of hardware coupled with software) being disaggregated and commoditized by open hardware and open source software. The announcement the other day about Dell unbundling their own networking solutions and offering Cumulus Networks' Linux-based networking operating system as an option on their hardware is an indication of just how much thi...