Publication: InformationWeek, 31 Jan 2012
Vblocks are one of the best kept secrets of the computer industry, but they keep popping up in high profile uses. They are sets of Cisco rackmount servers packed with memory and optimized for virtualization, with their storage and network switching built into the rack. They started out as a joint Cisco, EMC, and VMware project in late 2009.
A limited liability company came out of that project, Virtual Computing Environment (VCE), chartered a year ago, and Vblocks are attracting supporting products from BMC Software, CA Technologies, and other vendors who think they will become a building block in many enterprise data centers.
