Cisco, EMC, and VMware Ignite the Cloud Marketplace
As businesses extend the benefits of virtualization from the data center to the desktop, they are laying the foundation for cloud computing: a computing environment driven by business policy that instantly reacts by automating tasks throughout the entire supporting infrastructure. Businesses are rapidly building the beginnings of internal clouds—and they may not even be aware they are doing so. Server virtualization is one of the ingredients required to build a cloud and over time, this is allowing the business to inject intelligence—security, compliance, performance, availability, etc.—in one place and then apply it universally over the server, network, and storage infrastructure.