hahahahahahahaha

anyone who opts for this should be fired on the spot for going for the least cost effective solution on the market. However, I expect that this will have some level of success because there's a sucker born every minute.

Seriously....

Cisco - expensive servers. Do we realy expect Cisco to get close to the price of Dell, or even HP ?

Cisco - networking. Cisco's own proprietary version of Ethernet, incredibly expensive Nexus switch range. Vendor lock-in.

EMC - expensive storage. - building clouds on Symmetrix is absurd - and proprietary

Vmware - expensive virtualization. Where's Hyper-V and Xen - lower cost alternaitves with sufficient functionality to accomplish this.

There are lower cost options here, which will not require channel margins or a boat load of expensive 'services' to plumb this all together.