Why Cisco focuses on cloud consumption models and cloud-stye computing | #OOW14
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With close to 40,000 customers worldwide, Cisco Systems Inc.’s Unified Computing System (USC) put the company at the lead as North America’s top blade server vendor. Focusing on pushing fabric-based computing to the industry, Cisco is now bringing more features to the fabric-based architecture and expanding the reach of what they call cloud-style computing, explains Ben Eiref, Director Product Management, Cisco, in a live interview with theCUBE’s Stu Miniman and Jeff Frick at Oracle OpenWorld 2014.
“We have literally oriented the whole company towards developing cloud consumption models,” says Eiref. “Really, we don’t really talk about being a server company. We’re a computing platform, that will continue to become more scalable, flexible, cloud-like.”
Cisco is focusing on building inter-cloud technology that allows data to be moved easily to and between clouds, as “every customer has an imperative to embrace cloud for some of their uses,” according to Eiref. However, he warns, not everyone is ready to move to the cloud, saying “our large enterprise customers are not ready to move their core data into the cloud completely. It’s a slow process.”
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