Cisco Advancing Cloud Strategy with OpenStack
May 10, 2017
Grazed from eWeek. Author: Sean Michael Kerner.
The cloud is a central pillar of Cisco’s overall business efforts and one of the leading voices for Cloud at Cisco is Lew Tucker, Vice President and CTO of Cloud Computing. Tucker also serves as the Vice-Chairman of the OpenStack Foundation, helping to guide the open-source cloud platform forward.
In a video interview with eWEEK at the OpenStack Summit here, Tucker provides insight into where the cloud fits into Cisco’s overall business and why OpenStack matters. Tucker said that Cisco’s model around cloud is about how to increasingly move services into the cloud. Tucker specifically is focussed on the cloud platform piece of the business which involves OpenStack as well as container usage…
"OpenStack has really become the defacto IaaS (infrastructure-as-a-service) platform for NFV (Network Function Virtualization)," Tucker said…
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