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Cisco Adds More Supporters to 'Intercloud' Hybrid Cloud Development

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Cisco Adds More Supporters to 'Intercloud' Hybrid Cloud Development

 
October 23, 2014

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  By Casey Houser, Contributing Writer
 


Cisco (News - Alert) is pushing forward with its "Intercloud" initiative and has added more than 30 additional companies who are actively supporting its hybrid cloud model. With the proliferation of hosted PBX (News - Alert) use in the enterprise, this comes as no surprise.


According to a company statement, Cisco and its partners are developing an entire generation of standardized cloud applications that will work within the network of interconnected clouds brought to life by Cisco's partners. Cisco initially named supporters Deutsche Telekom, BT, NTT DATA, and Equinix (News - Alert) as among the most recent adopters of the technology. Rob Lloyd, Cisco's president of development and sales, said his company has seen a lot of support across the industry since the Intercloud was released earlier this year.

"Since we announced our OpenStack-based cloud strategy six months ago, we've received tremendous industry-wide support. The strategy is gaining momentum in the open source community and providing partners with a powerful cloud platform with global reach, and Internet scale and efficiencies," Lloyd said. "Just as Cisco played a leading role in connecting isolated islands of LANs to architect the modern Internet, Cisco's Intercloud Fabric and Application Centric Infrastructure innovations uniquely position us to connect disparate cloud services to unlock the full potential of cloud, and with it a new era in IT."

It was only back in January of this year when Cisco unveiled its new cloud system. It reportedly was designed to take advantage of open source and developed according to universal standards that its partners would help create. Cisco's ongoing relationship with Red Hat (News - Alert) Linux plays heavily into the continued development of the platform, and the entire purpose of the hybrid cloud model is to allow businesses to have flexibility with their cloud deployments while also retaining their own network and security policies.

With the hybrid cloud, workloads can shift from public to private clouds as companies and individuals need to shift them, and this week's addition of 30 more partners marks the expansion of the entire cloud system by 250 additional data centers across 50 countries. To supplement the development of the Intercloud, Cisco also said that it is releasing an interconnection technology called Cisco Intercloud Fabric that itself operates on an open infrastructure and is hypervisor-agnostic.

The response from tech news site VentureBeat insists that Amazon Web Services (News - Alert), although it has not been highly invested in hybrid clouds, may change its tune if Cisco's product continues to gain momentum. Amazon has developed its public cloud model for several years, and a showcase of success from Cisco, VentureBeat says, could make Amazon executives begin talking more about hybrid and what their own company can add to the equation.




Edited by Maurice Nagle
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