Transforming IT with the Virtual Computing Environment
At Cisco, we are our partners. Which is why today’s Virtual Computing Environment Coalition announcement is about you and how we can forge ahead together in a new collaborative world.
Cloud computing and virtualization have transformed the way we do IT. Worldwide spending on data center technology infrastructure and services exceeds $350 billion annually, according to McKinsey and Company estimates. It is also estimated that approximately $85 billion, or 20% of this total market, can be addressed with data center virtualization and private cloud technology by 2015.
Today Cisco and EMC, together with VMware, are transforming the way we help accelerate migration. The VBlock Infrastructure Package, which you’ll learn more about in this video, will create a market disruption and a tremendous opportunity for our partners.
What are the key elements of today’s announcement?
Today’s announcement contains five key elements:
1. A coalition between Cisco, EMC, and VMware, called the Virtual Computing Environment—an agreement to work together to accelerate customer migration to virtualization and the private cloud.
2. Combining best-of-breed products and services from Cisco, EMC, and VMware into a single, integrated offer called the VBlock Infrastructure Package.
3. A partner toolkit to accelerate a broader ecosystem of partners to resell and implement the VBlock Infrastructure Package.
4. A services joint venture between Cisco and EMC to offer/build/operate/transfer services capabilities to help customers and partners accelerate migration to private cloud infrastructures.
5.The creation of a single support experience to fuel rapid, seamless issue resolution through a single point of accountability.
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Posted by Alexandra Krasne at 07:24AM PST
Colin McNamara Nov 3, 2009
Thanks for getting this video up so fast, and confirming that this offering is channel driven, and not the VCE coalition members going direct. I know there are those of us in the partner community who are excited to go to market with a cohesive offering.
—Colin