Cisco enlists some help with its ingenious plan to dominate cloud computing
June 11, 2015
Grazed from BusinessInsider. Author: Matt Weinberger.
Just over a year ago, Cisco unveiled its ambitious plan to spend $1 billion creating a cloud computing platform that could compete with the $6 billion juggernaut that is Amazon Web Services – a plan it calls Intercloud. That plan took a big step forward today with some announcements out of Cisco Live, the company’s big annual conference.
The crux of the Intercloud gambit is that instead of offering this cloud itself, from its own data centers, Intercloud will unify smaller cloud service providers into one big happy family of products that are all compatible with each other. Instead of taking Amazon on directly, Cisco is trying to unify all of the smaller guys into a competitive system…
The idea is that those smaller players don’t lose their customers to Amazon, and Cisco can keep selling them networking hardware as they grow…
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