Re-examining Cisco’s Intercloud Strategy

About a year ago a group of executives at a Cisco offsite meeting huddled to discuss a very serious issue: What was the company going to do about the cloud?
With service models such as IaaS and SaaS taking companies by storm, Cisco needed to define its role in this new world. The company’s networking and computing hardware is used as the basis for many cloud systems and has become an integral part of controlling private clouds and supporting public cloud vendors. The Cisco executives wante