EMC is following NetApp and Dell in introducing standard "cloud" configurations, and these aren't vBlocks. Is this an admission that vBlock wasn't a good idea after all? VSPEX is different from Vblock’s offered by VCE The Virtual Computing Environment Company and are more along the lines of … [Read more...]
Stack Wars: The Links
April 20, 2010 by 1 Comment
We at Gestalt IT are not the only ones looking at the Stack Wars. We didn't even come up with the name! In the spirit of community, we will be collecting links to other sites covering the topic on this page. Check back often as new links will be added frequently! Newly-added links will be at the … [Read more...]
The Stack Wars Have Begun!
April 19, 2010 by 9 Comments
Just as public cloud computing is beginning to catch on, the enterprise data center world has been shaken up by the biggest IT product vendors. Rather than sit back and watch their wares commoditized, companies like Cisco, EMC, HP, and now HDS are stepping up to the plate with integrated "stacks" … [Read more...]
One Year Later: Questioning Cisco UCS
February 19, 2010 by 6 Comments
It has been nearly a year since Cisco shook up the IT infrastructure world with their unified computing system (UCS) server line. Predictably, although the introduction set the world buzzing, customer uptake has been somewhat slower. Although evaluations are reported to be widespread, production use … [Read more...]
An Exercise in Utility
November 9, 2009 by 3 Comments
EMC and VMWare's coming together with Cisco is an exercise in Utility. If we take Nick Carr's analogy of comparing utility computing with the power-generation industry, what the VCE alliance could be said to be is an attempt to define a de-facto standard for the 'compute unit'. An attempt even to … [Read more...]
Does VCE vBlock Really Mean Cookie Cutter Architecture For The Cloud?
November 4, 2009 by 3 Comments
So, we should all know what VCE stands for by now, right? Let’s say it together: “VMware, Cisco, EMC.” Using a bad analogy of Adam Lambert, a contestant on American Idol last season, the three companies “came out of the data center” today and publicly announced what we … [Read more...]