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Cisco and Microsoft Extend Relationship with New Cloud Platform

03/11/2012

Cisco and Microsoft Extend Relationship with New Cloud Platform Cisco partners with Microsoft to accelerate service delivery for cloud providers via integrated cloud platform

Cisco and Microsoft Blogs

Hybrid the Next Wave of Cloud Innovation

By Nick Earle, senior vice president, Global Cloud and Managed Services Sales, Cisco

Cisco and Microsoft: Simplifying Scale-Up Cloud for Service Providers

By Kit Beall, vice president, Cloud and Managed Services Sales, Cisco

Cloud Innovation: It Takes a Village

By Edison Peres, senior vice president, Cloud and Managed Services Partner Organization, Cisco

Microsoft and Cisco Extend Relationship to Expand Cloud Opportunity for Partners

By Aziz Benmalek, general manager, Hosting Service Provider business, Microsoft

Partner Blogs

How Cisco and Microsoft Are Helping This Cloud Provider Make Good on Promises

By Greg Pierce, vice president, Concerto Cloud Services

City Cloud Technology Joins the Global Intercloud

By Ivy Wen, Cloud Marketing Director, City Cloud Technology (CCI)

FIT is Now a Part of Cisco s Intercloud

By Horst Reichardt, CEO, Freudenberg IT

iland Proudly Joins Cisco s Intercloud Effort

By Lilac Schoenbeck, VP Product Marketing and Management, iland

Proximus Lowers Threshold for Hybrid Cloud

By Fabrice Feyten, Head of Product Marketing, Datacenter, Cloud and Security at Proximus (Belgacom)

QSS Partners with Cisco to Deliver the Promise of Hybrid IT Future

By Isan Selimovi , CEO, QSS

Top 3 Lessons Service Providers Have Learned about Cloud

By Aditya D Joglekar, Director, Cloud Sales, QTS (Quality Technology Services)

How We're Enabling Greater Choice with Cisco and the Intercloud

By Simon Hansford, CEO, Skyscape Cloud Services

Telecom Italia and Cisco Announce Intent to Enter Agreement to Offer Innovative Cloud Services to Italian Organizations

Monitizing OpenStack with the Intercloud

By Yanguang Chen, VP, Cloud Business, Troila Technology Development

Intercloud Drives Hybrid Cloud Opportunity

By Shi Li, VP, Cloud Business, Yunnan Nantian Electronic Information

Follow Cisco's journey to the Intercloud on social media: Cloud Blog, Cloud Twitter, Cloud Facebook and LinkedIn Business Insights.

SAN JOSE, Calif. March 11, 2015 Cisco today announced an extension of its cloud and data center relationship with Microsoft to include a new technology platform designed to accelerate service delivery and streamline the journey to the Intercloud for cloud providers.

Today's next-generation cloud services require close compatibility between hardware, software, network, storage, and compute. As a result, cloud providers are challenged with managing the complexity and cost of integrating the infrastructure and application layers required to bring new cloud services to market. To address these issues, Cisco and Microsoft are launching the Cisco Cloud Architecture for the Microsoft Cloud Platform an integrated solution that combines Windows Azure Pack and Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (Cisco ACI) to help cloud providers rapidly deliver hybrid cloud services while drastically simplifying operations and reducing costs..

Additionally, 14 cloud providers today announced they plan to join Cisco's Intercloud partner ecosystem, bringing the number of Intercloud providers to more than 60 with a footprint of more than 350 data centers across 50 countries.

Cisco and Microsoft Deliver Integrated Cloud Platform

The Cisco Cloud Architecture for the Microsoft Cloud Platform will provide the building blocks for cloud providers to evolve beyond traditional infrastructure as a service (IaaS) offerings to create combined IaaS, platform as a service (PaaS), software as a service (SaaS) solutions that deliver more value to their customers.

The integration between Cisco and Microsoft technologies will aim to enable cloud providers to realize unprecedented value. The combination of Windows Azure Pack and Cisco ACI allows partners to deliver services from network services and disaster recovery, to big data, and enterprise application services at DevOps speed, drastically reducing total cost of ownership and accelerating time-to-revenue. This collaboration will deliver pre-packaged policy management libraries that allow cloud providers to implement applications more quickly with consistent policy management. In addition, Microsoft System Center 2012 R2 is integrated with the Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) Manager to provide the operational simplicity and control that cloud providers need to manage their growing business.

Finally, Cisco and Microsoft plan to support their ecosystem partners with a full lifecycle go-to-market approach that delivers everything from service ideation and demand generation to customer retention. The Cisco Powered and Microsoft Cloud OS Network (COSN) programs fully complement each other to bring an unprecedented layer of support to cloud providers deploying this new platform. This helps partners reduce up-front costs while minimizing the risk of going to market.

The new solution is primarily designed to meet the needs of traditional enterprise applications. It will complement Cisco's OpenStack-based architectures for cloud native workloads and provide seamless hybrid cloud capability for connecting to Intercloud and Azure. Cisco plans to publish the first reference architecture in April 2015.

Building the Intercloud with Partners

Together with its partners, Cisco is building the Intercloud a globally connected network of clouds. Architected for the Internet of Everything, Cisco's Intercloud is designed for high-value application workloads, real-time analytics, near infinite scalability and compliance with local data sovereignty laws. By building the world's largest network of clouds, Cisco's vision is to deliver the most comprehensive and easy-to-provision-and
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