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 [...]
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Cisco EMC and VMware partneship VCE VBlocks Acadia and the Partner Ecosystem
November 3rd, 2009 · No Comments · CISCO, EMC, VBlock
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Cisco releases Nexus 1000V virtual switch for VMware
September 16th, 2008 · 7 Comments · CISCO, cloud computing, DC3.0, Nexus 7000, vmware
This afternoon Cisco released a new member of the Nexus family of switches, the Nexus 1000V. This is the first switch to take advantage of VMware opening up their ESX and ESXi platforms to for third party network device manufacturers. This switch directly address some pretty big pain points surrounding current virtualization implementations. The boundary [...]
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Measuring and mitigating risk involved with sharing virtual infrastructure between DMZ and Internal environments
September 9th, 2008 · No Comments · hyper-v, virtualization, vmware
Ivan Pepelnjak over at IOS Hints and Tricks wrote a post about DMZ VLAN leaking that got me thinking. He writes about “the VLAN leaking myth” and how it encourages clients to utilize physically separate network infrastructure in the DMZ’s. Now first things first, I wouldn’t call VLAN leaking a myth. At one time it [...]
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