The VCE Coalition: Redrawing The Landscape

The VCE Coalition: Redrawing The Landscape
The amount of R+D required to build these next-generation fully virtualized stacks is mind-bending. Combine the targeted R+D from VMware, Cisco and EMC, and you've got literally billions of IT infrastructure R+D dollars to go invest.
More importantly, that money can be spent efficiently. ll three VCE companies are relatively legacy-free in their approach. All three are really, really good at what they do. It's a clean picture - all about Intel, VMware and supporting technologies.

Announcing The VCE Coalition

Industry And Partner Reaction
As the day goes on, I'll post various commentary that I see -- check back for updates!
Chris Mellor from The Register offers up his intelligent speculation ahead of the announcement.
Jay Kidd from NetApp had his "meh" response ready to go.
Nice extended press release from EMC here.
Video from Purdue University discussing VCE here.
Nice to see Terremark on board with vCloud express here. Wasn't NetApp bragging about them as a customer? Guess the logo fell off :-)
Nice 3D model of Vblock here -- only the physical aspects, though ...
Mark Bowker of ESG checks in with a good take.
OMG. Chad Sakac went to town on a whole series of posts -- mandatory reading!
Nick Allen asks some hard questions at Wikibon. BTW, all have good answers!
An expected competitive blast from Val over at NetApp, who are most definitely not fans of this announcement.
Source: http://chucksblog.emc.com/chucks_blog/2009/11/announcing-the-vce-coalition.html

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