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It seems the big news for the day is the Announcement of the VCE Coalition. Seems I have been reading blog posts about this all morning with the last post being Scott Lowe’s thoughts on the subject. I have been hearing that this has been in the works for a while now and yes it will be nice to be able to use one SKU to some sort of complete hardware package for running your virtual infrastructure. I do, however have to agree with Scott Lowe that VMware has the most risk from this adventure but I really have to ask the question. Where you really expecting anything different? Let’s take a look at the money angle. EMC owns VMware and CISCO has invested a lot of money into VMware also, at least in my mind, it was just a matter of time for something like this to happen. Well than again there was my favorite rumor that CISCO was going to buy VMware or even better yet EMC.
Another question to ask is who is really going to benefit the most from this? What will be the response from the other server OEM’s? A little healthy competition for things is supposed to be better for the customer right? Well I guess time will tell how this little adventure plays out and if this will mean more segregation between the server hardware providers. More and more blog post are getting added it seems like each minute with more information so, once the dust settles things should really start to get interesting.
CISCO, EMC, VCE, virtualization, vmware
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November 3rd, 2009 12:03 pm
Steve,
I have to agree that unless you have been under a rock lately, could you really be surprised by this? Just look at this past year: vSphere, PowerPath/VE, SRM (tighter integration with EMC storage out of the chute), Nexus 1000v, UCS (obviously built looking at virtualization). There was clearly a strong synergy between the 3 companies that was only growing stronger.
Rod
November 3rd, 2009 12:22 pm
I agree with your comments. I blogged the same viewpoint today. This announcement is nothing but marketing hype. There’s no new product - just an idea of “hey let’s put all of our stuff together” and put a big red bow on it. Wake me up when there’s a real announcement…
November 3rd, 2009 8:43 pm
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