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Cisco has denied it will stop investing in VCE – the converged systems company financed by itself, EMC, and EMC sub VMware – following a report that appeared across the pond, citing unnamed sources. “Cisco is not pulling out of VCE,” the company’s senior PR manager, Gareth Pettigrew, said. “VCE customers and partners can be …

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    VCE was toast the day VMware/EMC bought Nicira.

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      explain yourself anon...

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        Nicira is probably Cisco's biggest competitive threat, now owned by EMC/VMware... their partner in VCE. VMware's idea is to wrap open SDN, Nicira, into VSphere and commodize networks, the same way they commoditized x86 servers. Cisco isn't going to want to be cozy with the company that aims to take out their network dominance, which is why they just bought an also ran Flash storage provider. If the VCE thing was running on all cylinders, Cisco would not be entering the storage market to directly compete with EMC/VMware. It is a counter-strike to EMC/VMware buying Nicira.

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