A new opportunity to virtualize network administrators

On Friday, Cisco publicly announced that it would acquire a 1.6% stake in VMware, a maker of virtual software. In response, VMware said it would consider approving a Cisco leader to join VMware's board of directors, according to ZDNET, although the current schedule has not been disclosed. In fact, a number of famous companies in the industry have joined the holding list of VMware, including a $218.5 million investment from the chip giant, while VMware said it hopes to raise $741 million through IPO's public offering. Earlier this week, Cisco said it would invest heavily in Data Center 3.0 strategy, in which virtualizer software technology would play a crucial role. Cisco said in a statement that the VMware stake acquisition "aims to accelerate the use of VMware virtualizer software by 100 million users, cooperate with Cisco's own network infrastructure, and make achievements in the field of network technology and virtualizer software in the future, as well as strengthen cooperation within the company." On the other hand, VMware and Cisco also said they will sign a collaborative contract to expand cooperation in the areas of development, marketing, customers, industry and industrial innovation in the future. Intel is also a shareholder in vmware. Before Microsoft also launched its own virtualization software, virtualization has become a trend. Vmware also has its own authentication system, but the price is not cheap and the demand seems to be shallow at present. As a network manager, it is very valuable to master the ability to deploy this technology in the production environment as soon as possible. At present, our company is about to deploy ad, I consider through esx to achieve, interested friends can communicate.