How VCE Created an Amazing Joint Tech Venture

In reality while there were four partners in VCE only two really counted: Cisco and EMC. VMware was subordinated to VCE and Intel simply provided funding and technical help to help the venture get started.  

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Cisco and EMC were equals and both provided and will continue to provide technology critical to the solution. But strategically the products in both Cisco and EMC were shifting very differently when it came to the public and hybrid cloud. EMC's strategy is to focus on selling to public cloud services and Cisco appears to be more focused on building their own. Both strategies have merit with companies like DellDell going down a similar path to EMC's and companies like IBMIBM more aligned with Cisco but there is no middle ground here; you have to be fish or foul. Alles zu Dell auf CIO.de Alles zu IBM auf CIO.de

If you are doing your own cloud service, you won't be able to successfully sell into competing cloud service shops. It is absolutely binary, there is no middle ground, and I expect this goes to the core of why VCE executive management decided to reform the company.   VCE originated in EMC and now it is going back to the firm that came up with the idea for it.  

VCE's Mid-Market Problem