Cisco EMC and VMware announced a joint partnership called the Virtual Computing Environment Coalition (VCE) . The key goal of the VCE is to accelerate customer migration to virtualization and cloud infrastructures. The Virtual Computing Environment will accomplish this in four different ways.
VBlock Infrastructure Packages
VBlock infrastructure packages are pre-configured bundles that are sized to [...]
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IT staff at the University of Miami are having a very bad week. They are having to deal with the fact that two million private health records were stolen from from them. While it wasn’t directly their fault that their backup tapes were stolen from a off site storage providers transport van. The responsibility does [...]
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Douglas Gourlay, Sr Director, Marketing and Product Management for Cisco’s Data Center Business Unit and writer of Cisco’s Data Center Blog commented on my celebrity sighting post (me and the nexus 7000). He asked two questions regarding my post about the Nexus 7000, and I feel that it best serves everyone to answer them here.
What [...]
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