Man, the phone has been ringing off the hook today and my inbox is swamped with inquiries on Virtual Compute Environment (VCE) and Acadia. It’s also entertaining to watch all the “experts” come out of the woodwork.
When I was an IT director, the most difficult part of any new deployment was putting all the right pieces together and making sure they work as a single unit. One wrong move or missed configuration and there go the dominos tumbling over. Yikes! Wether I am designing and deploying IT applications, building houses, or flying an airplane, I like to keep things simple. The fewer the pieces, the better and the less likely the chance of failure. It makes my life much easier to work with solid, reliable, and simple to maintain solutions.
Vblocks are a great example of a platform that delivers a top to bottom, integrated solution to enable businesses to hit the ground running, but it remains to be seen if IT will consume infrastructure in this manner. IT is accustomed to procuring a bunch of individual pieces and bolting them together (sometimes with super glue and duct tape). There will be a premium to be paid with the expectation of significant operational improvement. Will IT buy into this?
Also remember HP Matrix, IBM CloudBurst, and Dell (Dell, Scalent, and EqualLogic) can deliver on the same concept of a tightly integrated platform and have services organizations that have established relationships inside IT departments.
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Mark - yes, this is definitely cementing the fact that IT ops people don't want to be their own System Integrators anymore.
The other all-in-one pre-integrated system for your list is also Dell-based, the Datacenter-in-a-box (Dell, Egenera, EMC/EqualLogic) which is on the market today wiht a number of installations http://www.egenera.com/dell-pan-datacenter-in-a-box.htm
I expect we'll see even more activity in the "modular data center" space shortly.
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