The Government has offered Australia's three mobile operators, and vividwireless, renewal of their existing spectrum allocated on 15 year licences in the late 90s and early 2000s at set prices, while the Government expects to rake in $3 billion.
Vblock 2 is a high-end configuration supporting 3,000-6,000 virtual machines that is "completely extensible to meet the most demanding IT needs of large enterprises and service providers. It is designed for large-scale and 'green field' virtualization and comprises Cisco's Unified Computing System (UCS), Nexus 1000v and Multilayer Directional Switches (MDS), EMC's Symmetrix V-Max storage (secured by RSA), and the VMware vSphere platform.
Although the partners envisage that Vblock solutions will be sold by their existing channel partners and systems integrators, they are promising to make significant investment in resources to support these partners spanning dedicated pre-sales, professional services and single support experience to provide a seamless, end-to-end customer and partner experience.
The Virtual Computing Environment coalition Solution Support Team is "a cross-company presales team, fully trained in all elements of Vblock architecture and go-to-market resources to work with customers and partners and to facilitate engagements."
Virtual Computing Environment coalition professional services, jointly developed and delivered, "will help customers to understand how to maximize value and speed time to solution."
The coalition has established "a robust set of partners committed to the coalition." This includes representation from the entire partner ecosystem, including systems integrators, value added resellers, service providers, and independent software vendors. There are six system integrators at launch: Accenture, Capgemini, CSC, Lockheed Martin, Tata Consulting Services, and Wipro.
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