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Article: United States: Cisco, EMC forming cloud partnership.
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- November 5, 2009
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Byline: manish03
Cisco and VMware Inc. said Tuesday that they are forming a coalition they call the Virtual Computing Environment. Rumors of the deal had been creating buzz around the Web since late last week.
At the same time, Cisco and EMC said they are forming a joint venture, to be called Acadia, that they said will build, operate, and transfer Vblock infrastructure to organizations that "want to accelerate their journey to pervasive virtualization and private cloud computing while reducing their operating expenses."
Acadia expects to begin customer operations in the first calendar quarter of 2010, Cisco said. "Cisco, EMC and VMware have ...