Cisco, EMC and VMware have announced the Virtual Computing Environment coalition to accelerate the use of data center virtualization and private cloud infrastructures to enable customers' to increase business agility through IT infrastructure flexibility, and lower IT, energy and real estate costs. Skip related content
The coalition will provide customers a better approach to streamlining and optimizing IT strategies around private clouds through its Vblock Infrastructure Packages that are fully integrated, tested, validated, and ready-to-go/ready-to-grow infrastructure packages combining virtualization, networking, computing, storage, security, and management technologies from the three companies.
Vblock Infrastructure Packages are delivered in three levels to support 300 to 6000 virtual machines. The packages come with Cisco's Unified Computing System, Nexus 1000v and Multilayer Directional Switches, EMC's Symmetrix V-Max, CLARiiON and Unified storage (secured by RSA), and VMware vSphere platform. EMC is also introducing Ionix Unified Infrastructure Manager for Vblock.
Cisco and EMC have also introduced a joint venture Acadia to accelerate customer build-outs of private cloud infrastructures through an end-to-end enablement of service providers and large enterprise customers. VMware and Intel have also invested in the joint venture.
John Chambers, chairman and CEO at Cisco, said: "Today's announcement addresses our customers' greatest challenges and opportunities in the data center. This coalition is about an entirely new and unique approach to the data center that improves utilization, power consumption and security of information, all in a way that lowers the total cost to the customer, not via a box, but with a network-based architectural approach for optimizing virtual resources."
Last month, enterprise cloud computing company Salesforce.com and Cisco announced a partnership to offer a combined solution to deliver a complete contact center in the cloud.
