Jakarta - Networking giant Cisco instill his money more than USD 1 billion, or about Rp 11.3 trillion to expand its business in the cloud , aka cloud computing in the next two years .This investment will be used to build a network including OpenStack -based cloud and its partners . Vendors from San Francisco , the United States wants to encourage Intercloud services and will involve the entire data center networks that exist in the Cisco partner companies around the world .
According to Cisco , it will eventually Intercloud OpenStack -based platform that is currently popular , and will support a wide variety of workloads , with super tight controls , and have interoperability with any cloud , whether private or public ." By not stand alone and prefer to work with local partners , Cisco cloud network will have a better position to address concerns about security and data sovereignty recently increased , " the statement quoted from Cisco that PC World , Thursday ( 27.03.2014 ) .
As is known , the case of confidential information by Edward Snowden NSA has an especial concern for the local cloud providers in Europe , along with their efforts to compete with U.S. cloud companies like Amazon and Microsoft .
Promising security in Cloud services is a significant challenge for Cisco . Moreover, Cisco's relatively late entry into this market . They should be able to compete with the older players such as Amazon and Microsoft , as well as Google and Rackspace . In fact they will also face competition from vendors such as VMware infrastructure .
" Australian telecommunications company , Telstra is the first Cisco partner in this regard . We will build and operate cloud infrastructure to Telstra , and Telstra would otherwise provide specific services for both companies . "" In addition to Telstra , the other partner for Cisco 's Cloud services are telecommunications companies from Canada Allstream , also European cloud company Canopy , and Ingram Micro , " Cisco said that unfortunately does not describe the responsibilities of each partner in the project Intercloud .Cloud services are an expansion of the Cisco Powered program . Products offered include a version of the optimization of SAP Hana Unified Compute System for Cisco , desktop virtualization product coincided with solutions from VMware and Citrix , and a number of services that are developed in-house to address the issues of collaboration and security .
Cisco plans to sell these services through a channel owned by the existing partners and also sold directly to the user .
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