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…

In our original article we said that with IoT (Internet of Things) continuing to develop, vendors are facing severe challenges in managing the excessive load on their networks, which is making the networks more complex and expensive to manage. We also mentioned that Cisco helps its customers to simplify operations with SDN (software-defined networking) and NFV (network function virtualization). The new partnership between Cisco and Red Hat will provide integrated systems, as mentioned above, to help vendors manage big data as well as the Internet of Things cheaply and more efficiently…

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