Cisco wants to buy Cloupia support cloud Automation technology

Cisco is committed to advancing the position of its cloud leader, mainly through an outstanding acquisition, the cloud-based network maker Meraki, which is the new OpenStack distribution channel that supports the Citrix camp's Apache Cloudstack.

Before Cisco announced its intention to buy Cloupia, its cloud-consuming boom was ongoing, and the company was a software provider for Cloud automation, worth 150 million of dollars.

Cloupia Software automation aggregates the data center infrastructure for enterprise and service providers, controlling deployment and physical and virtual infrastructure configurations through a single management console. Cloupia will add more control and compilation capabilities to Cisco's cloud portfolio, potentially facilitating Cisco's ranking as a cloud management vendor, Dave Bartoletti said, a senior analyst at Forrester.

Cloud manufacturers must provide cloud automation

Cloupia technology will be unveiled at Cisco's data Center Group to assist Cisco Unified Computing Systems (UCS) Manager and UCS Central to manage servers, networks, storage, and virtualization resources outside the UCS stack, Hilton said, He is vice president of Cisco and Company business development leader. Cisco also plans to integrate Cloupia software into its Nexus switch.

Cloupia's acquisition will allow Cisco to be praised by providing a data center strategy that provides a single "Pane-of-glass" management function across Cisco and partner (Flexpod, Vspex and Vblock) solutions, while providing an open application interface (API), Thus consolidating the broader developer community and partners, Romanski said.

"Cisco is trying to put the value-added software layer on top of its hardware to make its cloud products more appealing and to remain absolutely competitive," says Colin McNamara, director of the Nexus is Data center time, a value-added distributor for management service providers and Cisco products.

Cisco has network and server products, but does not have its own storage matrix, unlike Dell and Hewlett-Packard, as competitors they all cover the infrastructure area, McNamara said. "Cisco needs to be able to configure assets, not as much as EMC and NetApp storage components." This is why Cloupia into Cisco, and better manage Cisco customers is a very good product for customers. ”

"By adding Cloupia Technology, Cisco will have a better strategy to distribute complex applications in the cloud," said Tom Nolle, president of Cimi.

By acquiring a third-party management software company, Cisco can also acquire built-in integration capabilities to integrate other virtualization, storage, and networking platforms, Forrester's Bartoletti said. He also says other companies are aware of these benefits and that Cisco's rivals will not forget.

Dell recently acquired the infrastructure Automation company Gale Technologies,vmware acquired automation vendor Dynamicops for Hyper-V and Xen hypervisors and Amazon EC2 Resource management earlier this year.

"Vendors are buying heterogeneous, purchasing functions to manage more things," Bartoletti said, "and Cisco realizes that their infrastructure tools and network devices are probably the most significant part of the cloud solution, but not the whole solution." "Cisco knows that they need to buy and build integration with other platforms, and this acquisition will help Cisco become a leading manufacturer of cloud automation and management," he said.

Will Cisco build its own OpenStack substitutes?

Cisco may choose to integrate Cloupia technology into OpenStack distribution channels to manage its quantum API technology, to realize the programmability of virtual nuclear physics networks, to differentiate between Cisco versions, Cimi Nolle said.

As a second choice, Cisco also uses Cloupia technology to build another private cloud stack.

"Cisco can use the new Cloupia management tools to provide OpenStack the same API, causing the cloud stack to look like OpenStack," Nolle said, noting that Cisco's cloud stacks are more lucrative for vendors.

"Cisco has turned to the cloud market, and how it develops this acquisition is a problem, whether Cloupia is simply for the DEVOPS environment or for developing a future cloud platform." ”

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