Betfair puts its money on VMware's stack ahead of Cisco's UCS

Sooraj Shah
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Betfair's CIO tells Computing that the firm would have bet differently if they went through the VMware transition again

Eighteen months ago, online gambling website Betfair decided to go with VMware's stack over Cisco's UCS (Unified Computing System) as it was the most "mature off-the-shelf product on the market at ...

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