Except that the Vblock, and converged infrastructure in general, was not invented by EMC but by Cisco. Cisco was shortsighted and got hosed by some very clever contract language but that doesn't change the fact that EMC knew nothing about servers or networks; the push for Arcadia came from Cisco's global customers and EMC hopped on.
Fujitsu, NetApp to drop it like it's Vblock: Year 8 is not 2000-and-late
EMC introduced its converged infrastructure Vblock concept, integrating Cisco servers and networking, and EMC storage, in a rack system, in November 2009. Now, eight years later, Fujitsu and NetApp are getting into the idea with NFLEX. The Vblock idea was to converge server, storage and networking infrastructure components for …
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Saturday 4th November 2017 16:57 GMT Anonymous Coward
EMC owned 40% of Arcadia/VCE as did Cisco. Intel and Vmware each owned 10%. EMC had a clause in the contract which allowed them to buy the other partners' shares at the five year mark. Cisco still owns 10% of VCE. Intel is no longer in, not sure about Vmware.
EMC never invested in UCS development. That's a completely ridiculous statement.
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Sunday 5th November 2017 10:46 GMT ROIdude
VP Client Strategy Nutanix
Agree with Anonymous Coward - EMC had nothing to do with the invention of UCS. In fact, Cisco originally proposed the concept to both HP and IBM - hoping they would build it (with Cisco's assistance). The UCS did, however, become the compute platform not only for vBlock, but also FlexPod, Hitachi UPS & Nimble SmartStack. http://bythebell.com/2016/08/the-roi-of-nutanix-enterprise-cloud-on-cisco-ucs.html
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Sunday 5th November 2017 14:34 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: Come on Reg
NetApp seems to be attached to the 10 year old converged concept. It makes sense, from NetApp's perspective, as moving to hypercoverged, and certainly moving to public cloud, really doesn't require NetApp. OnTap would be in the way. C mode never took off so they would just be selling filers, stand alone filers, which do not horizontally scale well and have a bunch of expensive software which has long since been duplicated in less costly, more scalable options. NetApp... much like EMC, really only has a place if you assume that there is a need for a storage sub system, old school subsystem. Everyone has taken, or at least believes, Google's approach of a massively scaled file system with server storage is the way to go... but not so cool if you run strategy at NetApp.
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Monday 6th November 2017 19:43 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: Come on Reg
There is some much FUD in one paragraph I'm not sure where to start. Just for those not aware the converged market is still a growing market worldwide, with the Cisco/NetApp share of the growth far exceeding everyone at over 26% YoY according to IDC. C-Mode never really took off? IDC has NetApp's revenues up at over 16% YoY compared to Dell/EMC at -22% and HPE at -9.2%. Have you seen NetApp's stock price? Up over 100% since the beginning of 2016, and largely due to massive investments in ONTAP's flash, cloud, and bare metal capabilities. Oh yeah, they also have SolidFire and a hyper-converged product as well in-case one size doesn't fit all.
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Monday 6th November 2017 09:02 GMT mrvvg
For the ignorant, vShape has been around for over four years with Brocade switching -- the NFLEX is a reframing of the vShape with Extreme Networks switches - which are essentially rebranded Brocade datacenter switches.
Customers buy these solutions because they want a single point of support and don't want to have to try and design/build one of these from scratch. Not everybody who buys computing solutions reads the drivel posted by anonymous cowards.
Fujitsu hold numerous world records for performance and low power consumption and they are not made in a cloning factory in China. In the interests of disclosure, I work at Fujitsu and am proud to so do.
As usual, commentards who have nothing productive to contribute should sit on their hands.
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Monday 6th November 2017 15:57 GMT baspax
Not sure why you were down voted, added an up vote!
Absolutely true, Fujitsu servers have been for decades leaders in performance. So much so that other vendors (Cisco, HPE, and Siemens if I am not mistaken) actually OEM Fujitsu servers for their ultra high-end servers (SAP HANA and Oracle).
You are absolutely right, customers buy these designs for streamlining delivery (assembled in factory or distribution), managed lifecycle, validation and integration of firmwares and patches, and consolidated support.
Look buddy, most folks here operate SMB or commercial environments and are unaware of the challenges in a global enterprise account. Once faced with the challenge of having to manage 3,000 or more blades with 50,000 apps, many would start to appreciate having a streamlined service.
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