Cisco Acquiring newScale for Cloud Provisioning
Cisco Systems is looking to enhance their cloud play by acquiring newScale, which offers the IT channel a service catalog and self-service portal to quickly deploy cloud services. Cisco will honor existing newScale customer contracts and the deal is expected to be completed by the end of Cisco’s FY 2011.
During the recent Cisco Partner Summit, CTO Padmasree Warrior said the networking giant had no plans to introduce its own public cloud platform (see FastChat Video, left). With that statement in mind, newScale appears to be a platform that will allow partners and customers to more quickly select and deploy cloud applications, notes TechCrunch.
TalkinCloud wonders if Cisco will find synergies between newScale and the recently launched Cisco Cloud Partner Program, which is designed for cloud resellers, cloud builders and cloud service providers. In theory, newScale will allow those Cisco cloud partners to provision cloud apps more rapidly.
According to Cisco’s press release, newScale will help “harness[ing] the network as a platform for building and using clouds and cloud services.” Of course, Cisco says that they want to keep their cloud vendor-neutral as far as management goes. But it would give them an in-house option to offer and promote.
We don’t know the financial terms of the deal nor how it fits into newScale’s existing alliances with companies like Eucalyptus Systems. But there is some limited information in this newScale FAQ.
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