With UCS And VCE, Has Cisco Bitten Off More Than It Can Chew?

Derrick Harris
Sunday, November 8, 2009
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Cisco's headquarters have become ground zero for the data center
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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. […]

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