Virtual Computing Environment (VCE) for Service Providers

Hello again – I thought it’s a good time for another post on the SP data-center. You might have already seen the announcement regarding the Virtual Computing Environment (VCE). We believe this is wonderful news for our customers and partners; …Read more.

Posted by Simon Aspinall on November 18, 2009 at 11:55AM

FAQ on Virtual Computing Environment

Cisco’s recent announcement of the Virtual Computing Environment Coalition received quite a lot of buzz in the media and social web. So we got Gary Moore, Cisco’s SVP of Advanced Services, and Chuck Hollis, EMC’s Global Marketing CTO, to address …Read more.

Posted by John Earnhardt on November 05, 2009 at 01:57PM

Virtual Computing Environment coalition -Can you list the benefits for your company ?

You probably didn’t miss the today announcement of the coalition  between Cisco, EMC and VMware designed to address the challenges of pervasive virtualization and private cloud computing .We met Mark Fulgham , Vice-President Data Center Solutions to get his point …Read more.

Posted by Didier Rombaut on November 03, 2009 at 05:11PM

Private Clouds, Multitenancy and Control

Update: The Amazon VPC example I originally gave in this post was confusing and in fact possibly incorrect in some ways. I have removed it. Recently I posted a video explaining how we at Cisco look at the differences between …Read more.

Posted by James Urquhart on September 22, 2009 at 10:03PM

Clarifying Internal Cloud versus Private Cloud

Many companies are rapidly evolving toward cloud computing, though from different starting points and not without debate as to the best direction or computing model. For example, advocates of public cloud computing sometimes advise not owning any software or hardware …Read more.

Posted by James Urquhart on September 14, 2009 at 12:54PM

Parag Patel, Chuck Hollis and Ed Bugnion talk about Cloud Computing and Unified Computing

I met at EMC World in Orlando, Chuck Hollis, EMC’s VP Global Marketing CTO; Parag Patel, VMware’s VP of Alliances, and Ed Bugnion, Cisco’s CTO for the Server Access and Virtualization Business Unit. Ed shared some insights on two important …Read more.

Posted by Didier Rombaut on May 21, 2009 at 05:29AM

The Future of Enterprise Cloud Computing

James Urquhart, Cisco cloud computing expert, and author of the CNET blog “the wisdom of clouds “  was a panelist at Interop’s Enterprise Cloud Summit, and will talk again on Thursday He shared with us some of the major points …Read more.

Posted by Didier Rombaut on May 19, 2009 at 09:26PM

The Inter-Cloud and internet analogies

David M. Smith of Gartner spent some time with me a few weeks ago exploring Cisco’s cloud computing vision. I walked him through a variety of concepts, such as private clouds, virtual private clouds and open clouds. We also spoke …Read more.

Posted by James Urquhart on April 13, 2009 at 05:56AM