Acadia (technical partnership)
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Acadia is a joint venture announced in November 2009 between Cisco
and the EMC Corporation
with additional support from EMC's subsidiary
, VMWare
as well as the Intel Corporation
. Acadia will build sell and support products aimed at corporate data centers.. The joint venture between EMC, VMWare and Cisco is also referred by the companies in their announcement as the "Virtual Computing Environment Coalition".
software..
The joint venture will be offering three products aimed at different environment needs. The low-end product will be aimed at environments where 300 to 800 virtual machines are needed, the mid-range product will support 800-4,000 Virtual Machines, and high-end environments (4,000 and greater virtual machines).
Cisco
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and the EMC Corporation
EMC Corporation
EMC Corporation , a Financial Times Global 500, Fortune 500 and S&P 500 company, develops, delivers and supports information infrastructure and virtual infrastructure hardware, software, and services. EMC is headquartered in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, USA.Former Intel executive Richard Egan and his...
with additional support from EMC's subsidiary
Subsidiary
A subsidiary company, subsidiary, or daughter company is a company that is completely or partly owned and wholly controlled by another company that owns more than half of the subsidiary's stock. The subsidiary can be a company, corporation, or limited liability company. In some cases it is a...
, VMWare
VMware
VMware, Inc. is a company providing virtualization software founded in 1998 and based in Palo Alto, California, USA. The company was acquired by EMC Corporation in 2004, and operates as a separate software subsidiary ....
as well as the Intel Corporation
Intel Corporation
Intel Corporation is an American multinational semiconductor chip maker corporation headquartered in Santa Clara, California, United States and the world's largest semiconductor chip maker, based on revenue. It is the inventor of the x86 series of microprocessors, the processors found in most...
. Acadia will build sell and support products aimed at corporate data centers.. The joint venture between EMC, VMWare and Cisco is also referred by the companies in their announcement as the "Virtual Computing Environment Coalition".
Products
The Products, to be called VBlocks, will combine Cisco's Unified Computing System, along with other networking protocols, with EMC's hardware and security software, running on Intel-systems. They have recently accepted a offer from MacOS to join the alliance. VMWare will be offering its VirtualizationVirtual machine
A virtual machine is a "completely isolated guest operating system installation within a normal host operating system". Modern virtual machines are implemented with either software emulation or hardware virtualization or both together.-VM Definitions:A virtual machine is a software...
software..
The joint venture will be offering three products aimed at different environment needs. The low-end product will be aimed at environments where 300 to 800 virtual machines are needed, the mid-range product will support 800-4,000 Virtual Machines, and high-end environments (4,000 and greater virtual machines).