The Virtual Computing Environment coalition (VCE) represents an unprecedented level of collaboration in development, services, and partner enablement that reduces risk in the infrastructure virtualization journey to the private cloud.

VCE's Vblock Infrastructure Packages deliver a complete IT infrastructure that integrates best-of-breed virtualization, networking, compute, storage, security, and management technologies. The three companies have invested in industry-first collaborative delivery of seamless customer support with end-to-end vendor accountability.

Acadia—a joint venture of Cisco and EMC, along with VMware and Intel—focuses on speeding adoption of private cloud infrastructures through end-to-end enablement of service providers and large enterprise customers. Acadia's unique ‘build, operate, transfer’ model for delivering Vblock architecture, addressing people, process, and technology, will offer customers further choice, flexibility, and cost advantages as they seek to virtualize their IT infrastructures and evolve to the private cloud.

Learn more at www.acadia.com