Cloud in a box, Fujitsu launch VMWARE EVO: RAIL solution

Grazed from BusinessCloud. Author: Steve Brooks.

VMWare announced EVO:RAIL on the first day of VMWorld in San Francisco and Fujitsu immediately announced their first VMWare specific hardware appliance. There were a total of six vendors named by VMWare who will produce the SDDC appliance (Software Defined Data Centre): Fujitsu, Dell, Supermicro, EMC, Inspur and Net One

Of the six vendors, Fujitsu are the only one to have their appliance available immediately. Dell is due in September while Supermicro, EMC, Inspur and Net One have no ship date yet. The latter two vendors are also only focused on the Asia Pacfic market while Fujitsu, Dell, Supermicro and EMC will ship worldwide. the big four vendors are no stranger to the appliance market and have worked with other vendors such as SAP to deliver solution specific appliances…

Previously known under the code name of Marvin, VMWare’s announcement is “simply” a scaleable data centre in a box. What VMWare have appeared to have done is create a complete package for enterprises and CSP’s (Cloud Service Providers) to provide them with a data centre that is simple to configure. At first glance, this seems to be another evolution of the data centre in a box concept that HP and VMware pioneered using HP blade systems and VMware software and it is a surprise that HP were not among the launch partners…

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