A large crowd gathered again this morning under a blue sky in the Moscone Center in San Francisco to listen to VMware Paul Maritz and later in the morning Cisco Ed Bugnion key notes sessions for VMworld 2010 . Cisco Omar Sultan and Brian Gracely, as well as VMware Ernesto Tey  talked tonight about theses sessions,  the announcements made by both companies, including the Cisco Virtual Security Gateway , and the need for more sophisticat…

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At VMWorld in August, Savvis unveiled its not-so-secret Project Spirit, the company’s platform for enterprise-class Infrastructure-as-a-Service virtual computing services.  In December, they announced Cisco’s UCS (Unified Computing System)  as the platform for Spirit, and introduced Symphony – the range of Cloud offerings including Project Spriit.  Savvis calls the Spirit portion of this portfolio a Virtual Priva…

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If you were at VMworld 2010 in San Francisco , and stopped at the Cisco booth, you probably already realized  that starting on September 14th a lot of conversations in the data centers will be about the Cisco’s architectural framework and how it can create a better business impact for the organizations — Here is what Ben Gibson, Cisco VP Data Center Solutions has to say about this September 14th event and the new announcements.&nbsp…

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A growing trend in networking is the migration of applications to the cloud as organizations look to take advantage of deployment flexibility and lower management costs. This was the theme at VMWorld in San Francisco recently, where Cisco had major presence, and presented on our capabilities in the network that enable virtualization. Virtual Machine (VM) technology is the foundation for cloud migration, but for a complete solution that overcomes…

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I really enjoy writing blog entries to provide more details after our announcements. Having done that for past few Nexus announcements, I’d like to continue the tradition & provide a bit more color to our switching part of the announcement yesterday. So before we go into the details of switching – what actually did we announce? In a nutshell, we announced the evolution of our data center architectural strategy to the Cisco Data C…

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