Commodity servers, commodity storage, even commodity networking gear -- is the next step going to be commodity data centers?
That looks like the direction we're heading based on the latest technology mashups.
The big news this week is Cisco's Acadia partnership with both EMC and VMware to forge a series of integrated data center packages incorporating each company's respective server, storage, networking and virtualization platforms. The pre-configured Vblock Infrastructure Packages would make it a snap to set up data center infrastructure both for traditional computing models and cloud services, with sizes ranging from entry-level configurations that max out at about 800 virtual machines, all the way to 6,000-VM behemoths aimed at large-scale and green field virtual architectures.
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