Vendor traffic in the Data Center

Cisco adds the storage building block to its network and computing plans with a JV with EMC. HP, in turn, decides to go after Cisco’s sweet spot with new HP ProCurve offerings integrated with HP BladeSystem.

Oracle, awaiting regulatory approval for the Sun acquisition, is already targeting IBM as we saw at OOW.

Hey, competition is good. Hopefully, we will see more assortment pricing specials as is common in the CPG industry where vendors bundle their large portfolio of products.

But each of those five has shown it loves to run up margins to stratospheric levels in categories it is really strong at. So buyers need to use this new leverage to beat down those areas - and overall, also keep looking at and steadily moving infrastructure either via SaaS solutions or via infrastructure services to the cloud.

This post was previously run on the Enterprise Advocates blog