Cisco InterCloud

2016: Intercloud is liquidation

On December 16, 2016 the Cisco company declared liquidation of the Intercloud project more effectively to compete with Amazon in the corporate sector.

Service will stop work in March, 2017. All applications and data will be exported, including on public servers of third-party provider. Possibly, him is Amazon. Initially Intercloud began to work as the response to the growing threat from Amazon. Project cost is estimated at $1 billion^[1].

2014

New form of Cisco Intercloud

On March 25, 2014 it became known of plans of Cisco concerning Cisco InterCloud - the company will start service Cisco Cloud Services and will join in business of SaaS providing, and probably the company assumes to use Cisco InterCloud as the first "cloud" service.

Invest 1 billion in Intercloud

On September 29, 2014 the Cisco company announced expansion of the cloud initiative Intercloud and involvement in it of new products, DPC and partners.

Intercloud initiative announced in March, 2014 assumes establishment of world communications between public, private and hybrid clouds. Originally Cisco invested $1 billion in Intercloud and positions the solution, together with a product family of Application Centric Infrastructure, as basic elements of the Comprehensive Internet (Internet of Everything).

The initiative of Intercloud is directed to providing the cloud services of a corporate class supporting transfer of workloads of applications between public, private and hybrid clouds as well as between providers of cloud services.

To implement this technology, Cisco developed the software of Intercloud Fabric - it is established on x86 servers - an enterprise architecture and providers of cloud services, allowing to transfer loading from private to hybrid and public clouds. At the same time does not matter - who specifically is provider of a public cloud service.

The Equinix company joined an initiative. Corporate clients of Equinix by means of Intercloud will be able to establish connection with public clouds. The solution Cloud Exchange will provide secure access to providers of cloud services in all data centers of Equinix. Now Cloud Exchange is available in 19 markets and supports connections by about tens of public clouds, including with Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure.

Among key partners of Deutsche Telekom and NTT DATA. With their participation infrastructure will include 250 data centers in 50 countries. Deutsche Telekom intends to unroll the Intercloud nodes in data processing centers which are located in Germany and are serviced by division of DT T-Systems. The problem of delivery of infrastructure as service to clients who are in Europe is assigned to T-Systems.

Cisco offers own hybrid cloud service under the name Intercloud Services. The service constructed on the Intercloud Fabric platform allows the clients using private clouds to expand them an opportunity using the infrastructure given to Cisco as service. The clients who are not using private clouds can purchase a hybrid cloud solution at Cisco.

Description of Cisco InterCloud

Cisco InterCloud - supports bidirectional, safe moving of working tasks to "cloud" of any participating provider of the affiliate program, or to supported "cloud", and back.

The solution invariantno to hypervisors, works with heterogeneous infrastructures. If the IT department or business have a need, a system helps to move data and applications to public "cloud" safely.

Specific Features

The functionality of the solution Cisco InterCloud offers:

• expansion of network of the enterprise and the system of security in a cloud of provider. All look like the task is carried out in the enterprise, at the same time all parameters of network and security, such as segmentation of VLAN, policy of firewalls, etc. remain;
• movement of tasks between diverse gipervizorny and cloud environments without making changes at the level of applications (using the broadcasting mechanism);
• preserving of corporate schemes of IP addressing for internal access and the moved functions of routing for the optimized external access provide flexible availability of applications.

Cisco InterCloud represents fundamental expansion of a software platform Cisco One where the Cisco APIC controller plays a role of a point of management for the infrastructure focused on applications (ACI). By means of new expansion the Cisco One platform will help to extend a coverage the politician of ACI to services of public "cloud" that will provide to customers the maximum level of the choice of provider, necessary for them, services, uniformity and control.

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