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Cisco Advances Intercloud Initiative 

SAN DIEGO, Calif., June 11 -- Cisco has announced it is partnering with 35 independent software vendors (ISVs) to accelerate the creation of innovative cloud services for the Intercloud -- the globally connected network of clouds Cisco is building with its partners. This first wave of hand-picked ISVs will offer cloud services to help customers capture the multitude of opportunities created by the Internet of Everything (IoE).

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.

By simplifying hybrid cloud, Cisco Intercloud Fabric is showing strong market momentum with more than 100 customers and 65 partners worldwide. At Cisco Live!, 10 Intercloud partners -- Cirrity, Datalink, iland, Long View, Peak 10, Presidio, QTS, Quest, Sungard Availability Services and Virtustream -- announced new hybrid cloud services built on Cisco Intercloud Fabric. Cisco also announced that KPIT Technologies, Holtzbrinck Publishing Group, and the Salvation Army are using Cisco Intercloud Fabric to implement a single operational model across dev/test, quality assurance and production environments.

Building Cloud Services for the Internet of Everything To help businesses capture the cloud opportunities presented by IoE, Cisco is partnering with 35 ISVs across three key areas: next-generation developer platforms, big data and analytics, and IoE cloud services.

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.

The first wave of new Cisco Intercloud Marketplace application developers and service partners include: ActiveState, Apprenda, Basho, Chef, Citrix, CliQr, Cloud Enabled, CloudBerry Lab, Cloudera, Cloudify, CloudLink, Couchbase, CTERA, Datadog, Davra Networks, desktopsites, Druva, Egnyte, ElasticBox, F5 Networks, Hortonworks, Informatica, MapR, MongoDB, Moonwalk, Nirmata, Panzura, Pegasystems, Platfora, Sanovi, ScaleArc, Skytree, StoAmigo, Talisen Technologies and Zenoss.

Simplify the Hybrid Cloud with Cisco Intercloud Fabric As businesses make plans to connect their private cloud to a public cloud, they are presented with a wealth of diverse public clouds to choose from. They're also presented with a complex and heterogeneous environment of different infrastructures, hypervisors, user interfaces and security requirements.

Cisco believes that hybrid cloud is more than just a connection: businesses should always enjoy the benefits of choice and diversity. With Cisco Intercloud Fabric, businesses can maintain a single operational model across its hybrid cloud, enabling flexible workload placement and consistent network and security policies regardless of hypervisor or choice of cloud (private or public) and all from a single pane of glass.

With its latest release, Cisco Intercloud Fabric continues to simplify the hybrid cloud by expanding its "Any VM, Any Cloud" promise in three key areas: security, control and flexibility.

About the Intercloud

To bring the world of standalone clouds together, Cisco and its partners are building the Intercloud -- the globally connected network of clouds. The Intercloud delivers highly secure cloud services everywhere in the world. Built on a globally distributed, highly secure cloud platform, only the Intercloud is capable of meeting the robust demands of the IoE. It is designed specifically for high-value application workloads, with real-time analytics and "near infinite" scalability. Cisco's open approach delivers global scale, with local presence: this allows local hosting and local provider options that enable data sovereignty. The Intercloud provides a choice of services, with compliance and policy control. Cloud the way our customers need it.

About Cisco

Cisco is the worldwide leader in IT that helps companies seize the opportunities of tomorrow by proving that amazing things can happen when you connect the previously unconnected. For ongoing news, please go to http://thenetwork.cisco.com.

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Source: Cisco

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