Lot of products it's come out with CloudVerse

So to move a lot of products it's come out with CloudVerse, which isn't a product, it's a framework, a "framework that combines the foundational components - unified data center, cloud-intelligent network and cloud applications - needed to build, manage and connect public, private and hybrid clouds."

Anyway, CTO Padmasree Warrior said, "For a long time we've provided individual elements. What we are doing now is bringing these sets of products at the same time." Intrinsically all the moving parts in the CloudVerse vision will work at the same time a whole lot better if clients oblige Cisco and buy the whole infrastructure kit and caboodle from Cisco, particularly its Unified Computing Systems, which aren't even bringing in a billion dollars a year but, and clearly Cisco's signature networking.

It's particularly important to Cisco since the cloud could be 20% of total IT spending straightway year and, based on Cisco's recently released Cloud Index, its study of cloud network traffic, the private cloud could account for 50% of enterprise data center computing by 2014.

Apparently it's been keeping CloudVerse up its sleeve for a during because it says that 70% of leading cloud providers is using CloudVerse and ticks off Fujitsu, Orange Business Services, Silicon Valley Bank, Telecom Italia, Telefónica Spain, Telstra and Verizon Terremark as clients.

Self-service portal

IAC provides a self-service portal, service catalog, orchestration, automated provisioning, lifecycle management and pay-per-use tracking. In the meantime, Cisco's new policy-based Network Services Manager can configure and modify both virtualized network elements in a cloud environment.

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