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Yeah..last year I blogged every day like a good little blogger but this week has been busier than last year.  That’s my excuse.  I figured I needed to talk a bit about what’s going on before Joe (rightfully so) reminds me.  I got here Sunday afternoon and spent most of that day just trying to [...]

Negativity..its never ending. IT tends to be breeding ground for these spores of mistrust and angst. Its OK everyone.. nothing to see here that really hasn’t been in place for eternity it seems, public or not..
Yes there is something incredibly tangible now, ok, ok. What do I speak of? Virtual Computing Environment-simply put and I [...]

Negativity..its never ending. IT tends to be breeding ground for these spores of mistrust and angst. Its OK everyone.. nothing to see here that really hasn’t been in place for eternity it seems, public or not..

Yes there is something incredibly tangible now, ok, ok. What do I speak of? Virtual Computing Environment-simply put and I mean simply put, this is a turnkey private cloud initiative, established via resources from VMwareCiscoEMC. Now from what I understand there is a certain amount of customization that will go into these solutions based on the customers needs but from the onset it looks to be a prepackaged, ready to use, referenced architecture. On top of that there is a spinning top of newness called Acadia or your one stop shop for pastoral utopias. Sales/Service/Support all funneled through this separate entity of ambiguity..hey I can’t wait to see what these cloud jockey’s produce in 2010. What are they pushing? Vblock’s baby, in three initial configurations as noted below..

• Vblock 0-due out mid year 2010, entry level goose, comprising Cisco compute and nettie, 1k, EMC Celerra and VMware vSphere. 300 to 800 VM’s supported
• Vblock 1-Mid-sized goose, comprising Cisco UCS, 1k, MDS, EMC Clariion, and VMware vSphere. 800 to 3000 VM’s supported.
• Vblock 2-High-end goose, comprising Cisco UCS, MDS, 1k, EMC V-Max and VMware vSphere. 3000 to 6000 VM’s supported.

So three companies become one. Three incredibly influential and market leading companies become one. How is that a bad thing? I don’t see vendor lock-in, I see responsible vendors. Vendors looking to accelerate cloud deployment, offering customers a simplified move to cloud or……NOT…YOUR CHOICE. Customers haven’t lost the power of excellence, they have gained the power of simplicity.

So please act responsibly, Don’t be a hater…this is good

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For those of us in the VMware/Cisco/EMC ecosphere it has been an interesting week.  The major news was the announcement of the Virtual Computing Environment coalition.  Basically, it’s a more formal partnership of VMware, Cisco, and EMC..which we already called the VCE partnership so I guess it’s convenient.  So, in simple terms what does all [...]