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Cisco's data center strategy has proven itself newsworthy, but it faces hordes of competitors who'll tell you it's far from the best choice.

The Virtual Computing Environment, or VCE, collaboration among Cisco, EMC and VMware has been covered to death this week, and for good reason – it’s potentially huge news. In my opinion, though, the skeptics have this one right. Competition abounds at every level, and now, even one-time chums have every incentive to keep Cisco out of the data center. The obvious repercussions for Cisco come from its former server partners HP, IBM and Dell. Server makers [...]