Cisco, EMC, and VMWare's Big Cloud Computing Bet

Cisco Systems (NASDAQ:CSCO), EMC (NYSE:EMC) and VMware (NYSE:VMW) are teaming up on private cloud computing.  Today the three companies launched a press release about Vblock™ Infrastructure Packages  and the Virtual Computing Environment coalition Acadia, a joint venture by Cisco and EMC.

SAN JOSE, CA--(Marketwire - November 3, 2009) - Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) and EMC, together with VMware, today introduced the Virtual Computing Environment coalition, an unprecedented collaboration of three information technology (IT) industry leaders. The coalition has been created to accelerate customers' ability to increase business agility through greater IT infrastructure flexibility, and lower IT, energy and real estate costs through pervasive data center virtualization and a transition to private cloud infrastructures.

Cisco, EMC, and VMware CEOs explain why they formed the Virtual Computing Environment coalition and how it will accelerate pervasive virtualization and private cloud infrastructures.

The official press release can be found here - click to open>>