Microsoft and Cisco come to the aid of cloud providers

Microsoft and Cisco's relationship in the cloud and data center arena has taken a significant stride forward through a new technology platform designed to help cloud providers deliver hybrid cloud services quickly and affordably.The Cisco Cloud Architecture for the Microsoft Cloud Platform works by allowing cloud providers to go beyond a simple infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) offering to provide a combined IaaS, platform-as-a-service (PaaS) and software-as-a-service (SaaS) product to its cust