Enterprise Computing: VMware, Cisco and EMC Join Forces to Create Acadia
Finally all the speculation is put to rest as VMware, Cisco and EMC announce their joint venture: Acadia. The “coalition” of the three companies will work together to deliver private cloud...
View ArticleAn Exercise in Utility
EMC and VMWare’s coming together with Cisco is an exercise in Utility. If we take Nick Carr’s analogy of comparing utility computing with the power-generation industry, what the VCE alliance could be...
View ArticleToo many or too few?
Chad Sakac recently tweeted about some issues EMC were having with VMware and there was a predictable and rather pathetic dig from NetApp about perhaps this being a result of EMC having too many...
View ArticleThe Stack Wars Have Begun!
Just as public cloud computing is beginning to catch on, the enterprise data center world has been shaken up by the biggest IT product vendors. Rather than sit back and watch their wares commoditized,...
View ArticleMarket positioning Acadia, EMC, Cisco and the whole vBlock Idea
So a while back, Cisco, VMWare and EMC announced that they are forming a partnership to co-operatively sell and support products. This joint venture is named Acadia and is made up of a specifically...
View ArticleTaking SD-WAN Even Wider With Acadia
This is post 7 of 8 in the series “FutureWAN 18 Tech Talks” We hear a lot about companies that are starting to look at deployments of SD-WAN solutions. The past couple of years have been filled with...
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