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| by Stuart Corner | |
| Monday, 30 July 2007 | |
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Cisco and VMware are certainly both singing from the same virtualisation song sheet. At his recent media roundtable in Europe, Cisco CEO, John Chambers, said he would not have got into the consumer market (by buying Linksys and, later Scientific Atlanta) "if I did not see the virtualisation of processors, of storage and even applications over time into the home and you [the user] not caring where it is. We think that will happen." VMware's website quotes the company's chief scientist, Mendel Rosenblum, saying: "In the coming years, virtual machines will move beyond their simple provisioning capabilities and beyond the machine room to provide a fundamental building block for mobility, security and usability on the desktop." The two companies say the purchase "is intended to strengthen inter-company collaboration towards accelerating customer adoption of VMware virtualisation products with Cisco networking infrastructure and the development of customer solutions that address the intersection of virtualisation and networking technologies." Through improved coordination and integration of networking and virtualised infrastructure, the companies intend to "foster solutions for enhanced data centre optimisation and extend the benefits of virtualisation beyond the data centre to remote offices and end-user desktops." |
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