Comments on: What the Cisco/EMC/VMware Trinity Means For Cloud Computing

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Tue, 25 Jan 2011 05:02:24 +0000

[...] want to figure out how to build their own cloud. The CloudSystem product will compete against Cisco’s V-Blocks and Acadia efforts as well as against IBM’s CloudBurst gear and services. It contains the 3Par storage products [...]

By: Microsoft To Sell Azure-Based Cloud Appliances. Eyes Private Cloud Market.

Microsoft To Sell Azure-Based Cloud Appliances. Eyes Private Cloud Market. — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 13:31:51 +0000

[...] platforms as a service with no hardware in sight. This strategy also puts Microsoft in competition with Cisco Systems, which is working on its own strategies to compete in the emerging cloud marketpl... using specialized and easily configurable hardware. Microsoft, it seems is merely following what is [...]

By: Former HP and MCI Exec to Lead Cisco Cloud « SaaS Newswire

Former HP and MCI Exec to Lead Cisco Cloud « SaaS Newswire — Fri, 07 May 2010 13:32:17 +0000

[...] Capellas, the former CEO of both Compaq and MCI, has taken the helm of the joint venture between Cisco, and EMC Corp. — dubbed Acadia — which was created last year to help the two companies along with VMware market a unified computing system composed of Cisco [...]

By: HP and Microsoft Buddy Up for Cloud Computing – GigaOM

HP and Microsoft Buddy Up for Cloud Computing – GigaOM — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 17:52:39 +0000

[...] here that I will explore later today on a call with HP and Microsoft: Efforts such as this one and Cisco’s tie up with VMware and EMC concern me, as they seem to indicate that the big players are using cloud computing as an excuse to [...]

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Cisco vs. the World: Rough Seas Ahead? — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:07:05 +0000

[...] includes Hewlett-Packard and IBM. Last week, Cisco announced a partnership with storage giant EMC and virtualization leader VMware to set up a joint venture called Acadia based on the concept that the data center is the computer. [...]

By: How Much Money Did Joyent Really Raise?

How Much Money Did Joyent Really Raise? — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 06:01:57 +0000

[...] So why the Dell and Intel interest in Joyent? I have been talking to a lot of folks involved with the cloud computing industry, and there has been a growing concern with the Cisco-EMC-VMWare joint venture company. [...]

By: Habib Ullah Khan

Habib Ullah Khan — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:44:07 +0000

I think Cisco’s channel is one of the best in the world and has kept up with Cisco’s incredible rate of product and technology launches. But UCS was a step too far for it. The gap between Cisco’s channel getting ready to scale up and deliver on UCS and how fast the market was coming was evidently there and hence we have Acadia. I have no doubt this venture partially exists to cater to Cisco’s top 30 accounts directly from a services end.

By: Internets of Interest:2nd Nov 09-5th Nov 09 | My Etherealmind

Internets of Interest:2nd Nov 09-5th Nov 09 | My Etherealmind — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:25:28 +0000

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By: If the Data Center Is the Computer the Fight Is on to Control the Ecosystem

If the Data Center Is the Computer the Fight Is on to Control the Ecosystem — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:19:11 +0000

[...] launched its own version of unified computing gear that stands in almost direct contrast to the announcements made yesterday by Cisco, EMC and VMware about Vblocks and the new Acadia services arm. Also today, HP laid out its vision and new software for a [...]

By: Omar Sultan

Omar Sultan — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:36:33 +0000

Jez:

The Cisco UCS is no more or no less “closed” than other blade-based solutions out there from other vendors, and, in fact, it does not require Nexus anywhere else in the data center. The northbound Ethernet and Fibre Channel interfaces are completely standards based and will connect to whatever standards-complaint infrastructure you may have in place.

As far as GTM, our guiding principle is unchanged: we go to market via our partners:
- Partners will play a critical role in this strategy
- Our partners are critical in driving an open business and technical on-ramp for Vblocks
-Acadia’s capabilities around BOT services are appropriate for a customers who want this type of BOT model
-Acadia will also be focusing on enabling partners, and will work with our partners jointly to help to build the technology and standards
-The best practices from Acadia will transfer to our partner community to scale to market

Regards,

Omar Sultan
Cisco Systems

By: Derrick Harris

Derrick Harris — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:55:14 +0000

This whole joint venture/VCE coalition is fascinating. I assume the companies involved have done their research and found a market for this product, but there is so much competition in all of the component markets (and the unified computing market), much of it more open and commodity-grade and less expensive. Plus, it’s not even settled that internal clouds must be hypervisor-based.

There also has been talk (evidenced by IBM’s use of the Nexus 4001I switch) that IBM and Cisco still are partners more so than enemies, but I wonder if that will change now that Cisco is, indirectly at least, undercutting IBM’s storage and systems management sales, too.

By: jez

jez — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:00:33 +0000

VCE “very costly equipment” .. great marketing spin, but others have been doing this all for some time. Arcadia is simply VMWare / EMC / Cisco coming together to sell direct. Not sure where the channel fits in here..

.. but the big problem here is that it all sits on UCS, which is pure vendor lockin. You must have Nexus throughout for this to work. CEE is coming soon.

I look forward to seeing what the next year will bring.