Cisco and VMware have now teamed up with EMC’s sworn enemy, NetApp, to provide similar functionality: new and improved hardware and software for next-generation, unified-protocol data centers that make full use of cloud computing as needed.
– Back on Nov. 3, 2009,
Cisco Systems, VMware and EMC came to the
media with an announcement
that they would collaborate on a new joint venture, the Virtual Computing
Environment, to produce cloud computing systems called vBlocks that
integrate hardware and software from all three companies.

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