VCE adds all-flash vBlock using EMC storage

VMware, EMC and Cisco lovechild VCE has announced a slew of new boxen, including an all-flash variant that uses EMC's XtremIO kit. That's a little odd seeing as we were told back in May, that a vBlock using Cisco's all-flash Whiptail kit was planned for the future. A further future, it appears, as the new “Vblock System 540” …

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A box of Licorice Allsorts

Well its a good job that this tripartite experiment has three parents, what with Whiptail's scaling issues and all that, no doubt in the coming months we'll hear that they've decided to go NSX instead of ACI, though I imagine HP to have put it out of its misery before then.