Microsoft and Cisco hook up over the cloud

Grazed from Cloud Computing Intelligence.  Author:  Marcus Austin.

In a blog post on the Official Microsoft Blog “Microsoft and Cisco’s Application Centric Infrastructure, hello cloud!” Satya Nadella, Executive Vice President, Cloud and Enterprise, Microsoft announced that Cisco and Microsoft are planning a love-in together over cloud.

As Nadella explains the meeting of the two giants isn’t new, they already have years of collaborative form; “Microsoft and Cisco have a long history of collaborating to help customers address business and technology challenges. Together, we helped customers embrace IP-based client server computing and, most recently, with our pre-validated solutions, we’ve helped customers like ING Direct, nGenx, and the City of Barcelona embrace the private cloud.”…

The reasons for the partnership are altruistic according to Nadella, “The pace of change in our industry continues to accelerate and customers are facing new challenges, including the growth of Internet-connected devices and the explosion of the applications and data that light those devices up. This growth is straining today’s infrastructure as IT struggles to keep up with the demands of new applications. All of this leads to increased complexity and rising costs.” So nothing to do with the cloud market being worth 100’s of billions of pounds by the end of the decade or is that too cynical?…

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