Posted by Gina Bollenback
Global Alliance Marketing
Communications Manager

This week’s News Around the Network highlights three major VMware integrations with our partner’s recently launched solutions:

VMware, NetApp and Cisco Enterprise Solution Comes to a Mid-Size Business Near You (VMware SMB Blog)
NetApp and Cisco announced the expansion of their partnerships with VMware with the introduction of an Entry-Level Flexpod for VMware, specifically designed to bring the proven Flexpod capabilities to mid-size IT environments. Check out the blog post for details.

"Hello World": EMC VSPEX (Virtual Geek)
EMC's Chad Sakac sheds light on the recent EMC VSPEX launch, which is a new reference architecture program for customers and channel partners that sets a new standard of flexibility for building private clouds.

IBM PureSystems Melds Hardware and Software Patterns (ServerWatch)
IBM has announced 2 main products in their PureSystems Family: PureFlex and PureApplication. PureSystems are expert integrated systems with virtualization capabilities that give users a simplified IT experience. The PureFlex system has VMware as an optional component and the PureApplication system has VMware as a built-in component. See this article to learn more.

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