Cisco this week announced that it is partnering with 35 independent software vendors (ISVs) across three key areas - next-generation developer platforms, big data and analytics, and IoE cloud services - to accelerate the creation of innovative cloud services for the Intercloud -- the globally connected network of clouds. Cisco and its partners will offer next-generation cloud services to customers via the Cisco® Intercloud Marketplace -- a partner-centric global storefront for Intercloud-based applications and cloud services from Cisco and partners. Cisco plans to open the Intercloud Marketplace in fall of 2015.
Cisco is partnering with a range of commercial app/dev companies including Apprenda, Active State and Docker to make their cloud developer environments a part of the Intercloud. It is also expanding its participation in leading open source developer communities like Cloud Foundry, OpenShift and Kubernetes to address the explosion of data and provide real-time analytics across their infrastructure and applications. Cisco is also partnering with the leading providers of big data solutions including MapR, Hortonworks, Cloudera and the Apache Hadoop Community to provide a true hybrid implementation of Enterprise Big Data solutions.
The company also unveiled its latest hybrid cloud software innovations spanning new security capabilities, increased manageability across clouds and support for additional hypervisors. By enabling flexible workload placement and consistent network and security policies across public and private cloud environments, Cisco Intercloud Fabric™ is taking the complexity out of hybrid cloud, said Cisco.
