Cisco Won’t Take on Amazon in Cloud


Cisco Systems won’t try to compete with pay-as-you-go cloud computing providers such as Amazon, and instead will sell its infrastructure to those companies and provide its own software as a service.

The company sees virtualization as the next major computing model and its own Unified Computing System as the first step toward a fully virtualized data center, Chief Technology Officer Padmasree Warrior said in a briefing Monday during the Cisco Live user conference in San Francisco. The company’s presence in both enterprise and service provider networks makes it the ideal partner for companies adopting cloud computing, because they want to gain cloud benefits such as scalability and disaster recovery without pushing out control of all their infrastructure, she said

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