Cloud Computing: Will VMware, Cisco Collide On Virtual Networks?
September 3, 2013
Grazed from InformationWeek. Author: Charles Babcock.
With the launch of its NSX platform Aug. 26, VMware has added virtualization to the list of things its willing to do in the data center. It’s also set a course that appears to intersect that of a venerated partner, Cisco. If there’s a collision, it’s going to be hard to classify it as an accident.
VMware knows virtualization and understands very well the new control point that’s emerged at the virtualization management console. If there’s a software-defined data center someday, VMware will be deeply entrenched in the heart of it. Cisco knows networking, and counts many VMware users among its primary customers…
When VMware brought three early NSX users on stage on the first day of VMworld: eBay, Citi and GE, it gave CEO Pat Gelsinger a powerful testimonial that the crowd, too, could take the networking platform seriously. All three customers were also users of Cisco networking, Gelsinger acknowledged. It was a genuflection to an old ally, with the subtext that VMware customers didn’t have to wait for Cisco to do what it had already done…
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