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[Data Center Knowledge] Cisco, EMC and VMware today announced the formation of the Virtual Computing Environment (VCE), which bundles the three companies hardware and software in a single “infrastructure package.” In this video, CEOs Joe Tucci of EMC, John Chambers of Cisco and Paul Maritz of VMware provide a high-level overview of why they are working together and how their customers may benefit.

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[virtualization.info] VMware, Cisco and EMC form Virtual Computing Environment coalition ...: And because Cisco may have a similar ambition too, and both can’t afford to become an infrastructure management company in 2010 without controlling the virtual layer, VMware is the mandatory addition.

[Blade Watch] Cisco, EMC and VMware on the Virtual Computing Environment ...: I wonder if combining the efforts of Cisco, EMC and VMware might further innovation and deployments of virtualization environments and move us further to data center 3.0? The concept where I am able to not just fail virtual machines, but to fail workloads and data centers, to have my infrastructure follow the sun, have a dynamic infrastructure where London can host New York, or where Tokyo can be hosted in Paris whilst we carry out necessary upgrades and maintenance on the Tokyo infrastructure.

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[Infrastructure] Cisco, EMC and VMware: Partners in Virtual Computing Environment ...: Cisco, EMC and VMware expanded their partnership with the formation of the Virtual Computing Environment coalition. It's a move that elevates Cisco to the level.

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[Chuck's Blog] Chuck's Blog: Announcing The VCE Coalition: When we deployed RecoverPoint using Cisco 9509s and the fabric splitter a few years ago we encountered some major problems (discovered due to the amount of i/o we were pushing) that affected our application stability. It was unclear whether it was the fabric, splitter, HBA driver, host etc.

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