Cisco’s Partnership With Red Hat To Make Cloud Computing Cheaper
Grazed from Seeking Alpha. Author: Editorial Staff.
Cisco (NASDAQ:CSCO) and Red Hat (NYSE:RHT) announced last week that they agreed to collaborate on OpenStack cloud deployments as well as Cisco’s application centric infrastructure and intercloud efforts. Bryan Che, general manager of cloud product strategy for Red Hat, said, "Red Hat has a very large ecosystem and Cisco does as well, so, when you put those two ecosystems together, that provides a lot of opportunities from a vendor standpoint."
The partnership will allow Cisco to integrate its UCS gear with Red Hat’s OpenStack and open source distributions. OpenStack will be combined with Cisco’s UCS servers, Nexus switches and management software. The Cisco-Red Hat integrated systems will be available in different editions, including a starter edition for private clouds, an advanced edition for large private clouds and an advanced ACI edition for deploying scale-out clouds…
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