Demonstrating accelerating momentum for its new cloud business, Cisco(NASDAQ:CSCO) has announced new cloud partners and customers, an updated array of cloud service offerings, and key cloud organization leadership appointments.
Today’s news builds on the plans announced in March by Cisco to build the world's largest global Intercloud together with its partners to address customer requirements for a globally distributed, highly secure cloud platform capable of meeting the robust demands of the Internet of Everything. Designed for high-value application workloads, with real-time analytics and "near- infinite" scalability, Cisco’s open Intercloud allows local hosting and local provider options that enable data sovereignty. The hybrid cloud capabilities that differentiate the Cisco Cloud are built upon the Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) and Cisco Intercloud Fabric technologies.
Rob Lloyd, President, Development and Sales, Cisco, said, "Since we introduced Cisco Cloud in late March, we have seen tremendous interest from our valued partners and customers, most of whom are interested in cloud environments that are open, highly secure, extensible, and enable data sovereignty."
Cisco will use Dimension Data’s Managed Cloud Platform and SaaS solutions to deliver a suite of midmarket cloud services to its customers and resellers. Dimension Data and Cisco will partner to deliver an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) solution that will be packaged with Cisco technology and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications, including Microsoft SQL Server and SharePoint. Cisco announced that it has surpassed 175 channel partners, including CDW and GTRI, which are now certified to manage and resell Cisco Cloud services.
