Virtual Computing Environment: EMC, VMware and Cisco

Virtual Computing Environment: EMC, VMware and Cisco

Date: May 11, 2010

Rich Napolitano, president of EMC's unified storage division, discussed his company's Virtual Computing Environment coalition with VMware and Cisco during a question-and-answer session with the media at EMC World 2010 in Boston.

The three companies announced the coalition in November. Through the Virtual Computing Environment, they offer preconfigured bundles of servers, storage, networking and virtualization called VBlock Infrastructure Packages.

In this video, Napolitano talks about the Virtual Computing Environment coalition's goals and the three companies' VBlock strategy.

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