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Article: United States: Cisco and EMC team up to challenge IBM, HP.
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- TendersInfo
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- November 9, 2009
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Byline: Mamta03
Ciscox-large A new joint venture between networking giant Cisco Systems and storage-maker EMC's VMware subsidiary will attempt to directly challenge tech giants IBM and Hewlett-Packard. It aims to supply the next generation of datacenters, the vast rooms where companies and organizations run mission-critical programs.
Cisco and EMC are setting up a 130-person company, called Acadia, that will open for business in early 2010. Acadia will offer corporations pre-bundled systems that combine computer servers from Cisco, data storage technology from EMC and virtualization systems from VMware.
This coalition is about more than ...