Capellas To Cisco Partners: Cloud Will Dominate In 18 Months

By samdizzy

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Let’s start with the big picture. Why will the cloud succeed? “The consumer has already decided [for us],” said Capellas. “Sixty billion instant messages are sent per day. Forty percent of those messages are enterprise. There are 25 million concurrent users on Skype. That’s the cloud.”

Within 18 months, cloud will become the leading architecture

Capellas pointed to multiple trends that set the stage for cloud computing’s dominance. They include:

Capellas also noted that 90 percent of blade servers are based on x86 deployments. He suggested that “the game is over” for other hardware platforms, with x86 dominating the cloud world. Capellas also predicted open source applets shared across the cloud will emerge as building blocks for next generation applications.

No doubt, Capellas has a vested interest in cloud computing’s success. As the leader of VCE, Capellas is working to ensure Cisco, VMware and EMC technologies provide the foundation for private and public clouds — especially as networking, storage, compute and virtualization come together.

Capellas also took shots at public cloud providers (like Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Apple); and single vendor stacks (and Oracle, IBM and HP). “Our approach is best-of breed virtualization,” asserted Capellas.

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