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read moreVCE Coalition adds NBN Co notch to its belt
Renai LeMay
Wednesday, 17 November 2010 11:15
The cloud infrastructure consortium which counts VMware, Cisco and EMC as its members has added yet another major Australian company to its growing list of conquests, revealing yesterday that NBN Co had inked a contract with lead supplier Cisco to kit out its datacentre to the tune of $9.5 million over the next three years.
VCE has been going from strength to strength in Australia over the past few months, signing up end user customers like Westpac and Corporate Express, as well as service providers like CSC and telcos like Optus to buy its products.
In a statement issued yesterday, Cisco said it would deploy NBN Co's solution, utilising the Virtual Computing Environment (VCE) which is jointly contributed by Cisco itself, as well as EMC and virtualisation player VMware. The trio's stack is known as 'Vblock'. Pictured above is Cisco global chief executive John Chambers.
'We are pleased to have acquired yet another strategic supplier as we continue to construct the building blocks that underpin the operation of the NBN,' said NBN Co head of corporate services Kevin Brown in a statement.
'Cisco is recognised as a leader in global networking equipment manufacture, and brings a wealth of experience to the project. We look forward to working with their 600-strong team in Australia as we develop the supporting infrastructure for the NBN.'
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