Cisco kid arrives in VCE saddle after EMC/VMware kerfuffle

The converged infrastructure player - a collaboration between EMC, Cisco and VMware - has lured Praveen Akkiraju, Cisco senior veep and GM for the Services Routing Innovation Group.

The new man climbing on board described his new paymaster as a "pioneer" in "defining and accelerating the adoption of the converged infrastructure for cloud-based computing models".

PR statement that Akkiraju has the business

He said in a PR statement that Akkiraju has the "business and technical" nous to speed up growth in a market in other words predicted to be worth $50bn over the then and there few years.