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Imagine Virtually Anything with Cisco, NetApp, and VMware

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Cisco, NetApp, and VMware have teamed up to deliver next-generation dynamic data centers today. This includes the industry’s first end-to-end secure multi-tenancy solution that helps transform IT silos into shared infrastructure.

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Posted 1 month ago by Tim FitzGerald 

NetApp, Cisco and VMware join forces - 26 Jan 2010 - CRN

NetApp, Cisco and VMware have teamed up to create a virtualised data centre architecture featuring “best of breed” technology from all three firms.

The venture marks the first time that Cisco, VMware and NetApp have pooled resources – a collaboration that has resulted in the creation of the Secure Multi-Tenancy Design Architecture.

The architecture, explained the vendors, has been designed to improve efficiency and security within the virtualised data centre environment for customers wanting to deploy cloud solutions.

Paul Maritz, president and chief executive at VMware, explained: “The dynamic data centre built on VMware vSphere, along with Cisco and NetApp technologies, will provide the foundation for both private and public clouds and the ability to move data and applications between these clouds.”

Only mutual partners of all three firms will be authorised to sell the architecture, explained John Rollason, head of product, alliances and solutions marketing EMEA at NetApp.

He said: “Customers can purchase the hardware and software for the Secure Multi-tenancy Architecture from a broad partner ecosystem, which consists of the three companies’ mutual system integrators and channel partners.”

Logicalis UK, a partner of all three vendors, has welcomed the collaboration's “mutual partners only” stance.

Tom Kelly, managing director at Logicalis UK, said: “I make no apologies for the access we will have [to the architecture] over our competitors because we have invested significant amounts of money in these partnerships.”

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Hot Jobs: Virtualization Pros are in Big Demand - ReadWriteCloud


Written by Alex Williams / January 25, 2010 5:00 PM / 0 Comments
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This post is part of our ReadWriteCloud channel, which is dedicated to covering virtualization and cloud computing. The channel is sponsored by Intel and VMware. As you're planning your Cloud Architecture, check out this helpful resource from our sponsors: Virtualized Datacenter = Real-World IT Optimization.

Data Center PicsDriving the enterprise this year is a quest for efficiency and flexibility. To determine the actual direction, one needs quantifiable information that proves certain trends have merit.

The want ads are a great resource for seeing what types of investments are being made by companies. This year, people with virtualization skills are in big demand, followed by -you guessed it - cloud computing.

Forrester Research is predicting that IT spending will jump about 8% but hiring will lag.

According to a post on CIO.com, Wedbush Securities, a Wall Street analyst firm, sees projects involving virtualization, Windows 7 and enterprise software as high on the corporate priority list.

In 2008, Dice.com ran an average of 85,000 job listings. Then Lehman Bros. collapsed and the job market fizzled. Jobs posted took a drop in 2009, falling to a low of 47,000. Today, the count is up to 50,000 and is expected to increase over the span of the year.

The fastest growing skills are for virtualization, which is at about 2,000 ads, up 21% compared to last year. Cloud computing is showing popularity, too. Last year there were zero jobs posted.This year there are more than 300.

Large companies from a number of industries are hiring virtualization pros, showing the demand is not just from technology companies.

IT managers realize that virtualization pros can manage more servers than their counterparts. For example, CIO.com cites a study that found one administrator manages 65 physical servers. The average for virtual servers is 77.

That's not a huge increase but it can help save IT dollars that can be used to prove whether other growing trends deserve attention.

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Wow - Check out that growth rate! Hot Jobs: Virtualization Pros are in Big Demand

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Virtualization and Private Clouds: Trends and Directions » privatecloud.com

Virtualization and private cloud trends, value propositions, obstacles, risk mitigation, and vendor selection are key topics in this December 2009 EMC interview with Frank Gens, IDC’s senior vice president and chief analyst*.

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* IDC Analyst Connection sponsored by EMC, Virtualization and Private Clouds: Trends and Directions, Doc#IDC_863, Dec 2009.

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Welcome to www.VDI.com - Discuss and accelerate VDI solutions using VMware View or Citrix XenDesktop or Microsoft Med-v desktop disaster recovery VDI DR solution -- conduct a proper personal computer desktop assessment P2V migration. VDI deployment cloud

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Getting ROI for any investment is critical. VDI investments are not exception. Check out the thoughts of one of the market through leaders in VDI...

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