Unified Fabric Video

Unified Fabric Video

John Kahn, VP, Solutions Marketing, EMC Corporation (1:29min)

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Cisco and EMC work together to offer solutions and services that can help you build, deploy, and manage adaptive IT infrastructures. Combining EMC's industry-leading, information infrastructure with Cisco intelligent networking products such as the Cisco Unified Computing System, Cisco Nexus, and Cisco MDS technologies can help you reduce data center complexity. This can result in lower cost of ownership, enhanced resiliency, and increased agility. These joint solutions and services for the data center include:

• High-performance storage and SANs that reduce total cost of ownership
• Disaster recovery to protect data and improve compliance
• Combined computing, storage, networking, and virtualization technologies, such as Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) and solutions from the Virtual Computing Environment Company (VCE).

Our joint solutions are enabled through both transformational and traditional architectures. They bring together best-of-breed products and solutions into a complete data center design that can enhance your current investment, and adapt to meet your future needs.

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Virtual Computing Environment Company

Formed by Cisco and EMC with investments from VMware and Intel, the Virtual Computing Environment Company (VCE) accelerates the adoption of converged infrastructure and cloud-based computing models. VCE delivers the industry's first completely integrated IT solution with end-to-end vendor accountability. VCE's deployment models dramatically reduce the cost of IT while improving time-to-market for our customers.

VCE is leading the way in converged infrastructure with its Vblock infrastructure platforms. Vblock platforms are preconfigured with world-class compute, network, storage, and virtualization built into a scalable platform.

Vblock platforms are optimized for many popular cloud applications. These include:

• Horizontal applications
• Vertical industry offerings
• Test and development environments

Learn more about VCE by visiting www.vce.com.

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