[November 09, 2009] Cisco, EMC Intro Virtual Computing Environment Coalition Tweet (Computer News Middle East Via Acquire Media NewsEdge)   Cisco and EMC, together with VMware, have introduced the Virtual Computing Environment coalition. The coalition has been created to accelerate customers' ability to increase business agility through greater IT infrastructure flexibility, and lower IT, energy and real estate costs through pervasive data centre virtualisation and a transition to private cloud infrastructures. Cisco, EMC and VMware have worked closely over the past year on a shared vision for the future of enterprise IT infrastructure -- private cloud computing. The Virtual Computing Environment coalition offers organisations of all sizes an accelerated approach to data center transformation with efficiencies that promise significant reductions in both capital and operating expenses, the companies claim. As a result, organizations will no longer have to choose between best-of-breed technologies and end-to-end vendor accountability. According to the companies, with the introduction of Vblock Infrastructure Packages, the Virtual Computing Environment coalition will provide customers with a fundamentally better approach to streamlining and optimising IT strategies around private clouds.   Vblock Infrastructure Packages are fully integrated, tested, validated, and ready-to-go/ready-to-grow infrastructure packages that combine best-in-class virtualisation, networking, computing, storage, security, and management technologies from Cisco, EMC and VMware with end-to-end vendor accountability, said the companies. The coalition will scale customer adoption of Vblock systems by enabling a global community of systems integrators, service providers, channel partners, and independent software vendors (ISVs). The coalition has also established unified presales, professional services and support capabilities to simplify customer engagement. Cisco and EMC also introduced Acadia, a joint venture focused on accelerating customer build-outs of private cloud infrastructures through an end-to-end enablement of service providers and large enterprise customers.   Acadia's build, operate, transfer model for delivering the Vblock architecture, addressing people, process and technology, will offer customers further choice, flexibility and cost advantages as they seek to virtualise their IT infrastructures and evolve to private cloud environments. In addition to Cisco and EMC as the lead investors, the build-out of Acadia's expanded capabilities in 2010 has also been capitalised by investments from VMware and Intel.   Because the Vblock architecture relies heavily on Intel Xeon processors and other Intel data center technology, Intel will join the Acadia effort as a minority investor to facilitate and accelerate customer adoption of the latest Intel technology for servers, storage, and networking.     (c) 2008 IDG Middle East. All rights reserved. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]