Cisco’s New Cloud Project, Code-Named ‘Cloud Fusion,’ Could Thwart The NSA
December 12, 2013
Grazed from BusinessInsider. Author: Julie Bort.
Like all the big enterprise tech vendors these days, Cisco’s got plans to grab a share of the expanding cloud computing market. For the most part, Cisco isn’t selling cloud services directly to enterprise customers (with the exception of WebEx, its Internet web conferencing service).
Instead, it sells the pieces and parts to build a cloud, and it does a brisk business with that. By one account, it sells more cloud computing infrastructure tech than competitors like IBM, HP, Dell, EMC and VMware, according to market research firm Synergy. Now the company is starting to talk about a new product, code-named Cloud Fusion, that it says will protect companies from NSA spying, reports the Wall Street Journal’s Michael Hickins…
Cloud Fusion is form of cloud computing known as the "hybrid cloud." Essentially, there are three flavors of cloud computing: public clouds, private clouds and hybrid clouds. With a public cloud, like Amazon’s Web Services, a business rents software and computers from Amazon and accesses them over the Internet…
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