No shortage of action today! Press, media calls and competition inquiries.

What we learned from the Cisco, EMC, VMware announcement:

• Vblock – Integrated Cisco, EMC, VMware solution for highly virtualized environments.
• VCE – Virtual Computing Environment
• Acadia – Cisco & EMC Joint venture. It was code named “Alpine”.
• Private Cloud – still a bit foggy from my perspective
• Cisco will leverage Acadia, EMC and its partners as a route to market for UCS
• EMC is hopped up on Ionix Unified Infrastructure Manager, but it is still a bit unclear how enterprise IT can leverage existing enterprise management investments
• The unit of consumption has the potential to change. Gone are the days of buying individual components, here is the day of Vblocks and pods?

As shown in the below figure, consolidation, expanded application adoption, disaster recovery, business continuity, and improved operational processes are all top of mind for business that recognize the value of virtualization and want to expand on their success. The good news for customers—as well as Cisco, EMC, and VMware—is that each of these vendors have existing solutions that map nicely to these top server initiatives.  With this alignment customers should have simplified access to help accelerated time to deployment of large-scale solutions that help achieve their virtualization goals.

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1. Cisco, EMC, and VMware… Acadia?
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3. Acadia, Cisco, EMC, VMware: Vblock Top Three Questions
4. VMware, EMC, Cisco, HP, IBM and Dell Target x86 Workloads
5. Virtual Compute Environment with Cisco, EMC, and VMware

Tags: Acadia, Alpine, Cisco, cloud computing, EMC, Ionix, private cloud, UCS, Vblock, VCE, VMware