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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I read an interesting article in the Channel Register written by Timothy Pricket Morgan today. In his article - Cisco California pricing revealed, $3,000 for a blade with no innards he attempts to position UCS as a horribly overpriced system where Cisco is egregiously marking up components. A pretty strong statement from his article is listed [...]
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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 between [...]
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