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SAN JOSE, California – November 3, 2009 – Cisco and EMC, together with VMware, today introduced the Virtual Computing Environment coalition, an unprecedented collaboration of three information technology (IT) industry leaders. The coalition has been created to accelerate customers’ ability to increase business agility through greater IT infrastructure flexibility, and lower IT, energy and real estate costs through pervasive data center virtualization and a transition to private cloud infrastructures.

Cisco, EMC and VMware have worked closely over the past year on a shared vision for the future of enterprise IT infrastructure – private cloud computing. A private cloud is a virtual IT infrastructure that is securely controlled and operated solely for one organization. It can be managed either by that organization or a third party, and it can exist on or off premises or in combination. Private cloud computing offers the controls and security of today’s data center with the agility required for business innovation at substantially lower costs. Worldwide spending on data center technology infrastructure and services exceeds $350 billion1 annually, according to McKinsey and Company estimates, with half of that spent on capital expenses (products) and half on operating expenses (services and labor). Further, an estimated 70 percent2 or more of those costs are expended to maintain existing infrastructures, leaving 30 percent or less for new technology initiatives and applications that can provide breakthrough differentiation for businesses. It is also estimated that approximately $85 billion3, or 20% of this total market, can be addressed with data center virtualization and private cloud technology by 2015.

This is great news I’ll need to check out the video conference and announcements that are being made today. I wonder if combining the efforts of Cisco, EMC and VMware might further innovation and deployments of virtualization environments and move us further to data center 3.0? The concept where I am able to not just fail virtual machines, but to fail workloads and data centers, to have my infrastructure follow the sun, have a dynamic infrastructure where London can host New York, or where Tokyo can be hosted in Paris whilst we carry out necessary upgrades and maintenance on the Tokyo infrastructure.

Could the announcement also help with standards and the drive towards moving on internal IT to the next generation of infrastructure and applications, where we can achieve more with less, the concept that my data center might be comprised of a few hundred blades running VMware with SAN boot, in an energy efficient adaptive configuration? Very cool.

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