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Cisco, EMC, VMWare to announce joint venture
By siliconindia
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Tuesday, 03 November 2009, 16:43 IST
Bangalore: Cisco Systems, EMC and VMWare are expected to announce this week a new joint venture to sell datacenter products and services using virtualization technology, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.
The new products called "V-Block" combine EMC's storage equipment with Cisco's new virtualized services and networking equipment along with VMWare's virtualization technology. Cisco and EMC were in talks in September to form a new services venture code-named Alpine. It is possible that V-Block is the same service.
The products will either be sold as an end-to-end solution that companies can install in their own datacenters, or customers will have the option of subscribing to a virtualized service. Cisco owns a stake in virtualization software company VMware, which operates as a unit of EMC.
Earlier this year, Cisco also announced a new datacenter architecture called Unified Computing, which includes new virtualized servers. It also includes coordinated support and software integration from partners such as Intel, Microsoft, EMC and VMware.
Cisco sees the datacenter market as a multibillion-dollar opportunity. The company anticipates a greater need for storage and high-speed networking within datacenters as more services and content come online. Cisco's corporate customers have also begun to virtualize their datacenters to make those operations more efficient.
Representatives from Cisco, EMC and VMWare have declined to comment. The joint venture is expected to be announced on Wednesday before Cisco releases its fiscal first-quarter results.
