NEWS ANALYSIS: Only days after creating the VCE and its legal business entity, the shared-equity Acadia startup, to scope out solution packages and market the new vBlock cloud systems, the market-leading companies appear to be moving into other trendy and fertile IT farmlands: namely, virtual desktops, hosted applications and new storage options.
– The IT giants that formed the Virtual Computing Environment joint venture Nov. 3
to create and market modular cloud computing systems appear to be
building a coalition with the combined market share and product lineup
to go way beyond a single data center product rollout.

In fact, it’s not too…