By Maureen O'Gara Article Rating: November 3, 2009 07:15 PM EST
Cisco and EMC Tuesday kicked off a cloud-chasing joint venture called Acadia that includes VMware and Intel as minority investors.
Presumably they took the name from the ancient Greeks who used the word to mean a refuge or idyllic place and not the uprooted and deported North American Acadia captured in Longfellow's magnificent tear-jerker "Evangeline," although Cisco's new enemies IBM and HP may try to persuade users that it is.
The coalition, which will claim more of their resources, talent and investment than the joint venture, will consist of an ecosystem of VARs, service providers, channel partners and ISVs and to start includes the big system integrators Accenture, Capgemini, CSC, Lockheed Martin, Tata Consulting Services and Wipro.
It's supposed to advance Cisco's fortunes in the data center against IBM and HP, both of which are ticked at Cisco's temerity in daring to try to break into servers - and neither is likely to be any happier with this alliance. Their only consolation may be that Cisco's boxes haven't gotten a ringing endorsement from users - at least not yet.
One can read the article here.
recommend this
email
print
link to this page
Comments: 8
It is now twenty years later and the cloud is still not the computer, however the current internet is a bigger part of it. The cloud or the network is between the computer and the other computers and has been a dream if Cisco since I first met with them some time in the later eighties while at Kaiser Permanente. This has always been a goal of theirs, in my opinion. It is in their blood and why they exist as a company.
Why am I here
Because
I’m the only applications guy here
We know
Why
You support us and nobody else really does
Oh, I didn’t know
We know
Oh
It’s important
I know.
Since that meeting Kaiser Permanente in the So Cal Region has used Cisco Routers.
Cisco was a tiny company back then.
Richard, aren't there several cloud computing entities out there already? I think I read that Google and Amazon use it and I cannot recall the others I receive updates from several IT sources and cannot recall which one or all of the details.
Hardware is a bit different than software, and that is where Cisco is at.
I'll try and explain. TCP or transmission control protocol is a bunch of packets that are transmitted in any or a random method from one physical place to another over many different lines or a few different lines and time. The receiving box and the sending box are usually a Telco switch then the local network that is then passed to a server that is physically tied to a computer at both ends. The current software that is called cloud computing is physically executed in the sending and the receiving computer. Cisco will move that process one step away from that to be executed in the server and possibly in the Telco switch. If Cisco can move the complete or some of the necessary processes to the server, then for those processes in the computer are not needed. If Cisco can move the processes to the switch then the servers and the computer are not needed. Thus the savings.
Thus, when my student delivers and sets up his masterpiece I will need to sit with him to learn the hows and wheres' of a mega computer and how to connect to Cisco.
I enjoyed your article and can enjoy what I do not thoroughly understand. My basic knowledge of "Cloud" and "Network" computing and for what I do that is enough.
I would suggest this page could be used for reference.
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/index.html