Cisco Systems Inc. is teaming with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to offer cloud computing customers with a hybrid cloud solution to allow customers to keep sensitive data and applications of remote servers. Amazon and Cisco announced the partnership on Thursday that will combine Cisco’s software and potential hardware along with AWS cloud-computing power. The system will be using Kubernetes, open source containerization software that is used for applications and data to be grouped together and maintained on different sources.
Cisco networking and security chief praised that we have the world’s first native hybrid Kubernetes environment for AWS. Customers of AWS and Cisco will now be getting the access to Cisco’s container platform to manage workloads on and off Amazon cloud. This will also help in promoting the Cisco’s hyper-convergence hardware and demand for bundled software.
Hybrid cloud has been the focus for tech giants for the past couple of years. Hybrid cloud currently represents 30 percent of all enterprise deployments and by 2022 the number might hit 55%. Governments across the world are also leveraging cloud platform for setting up digital networks and even public domain work.
The Hybrid-cloud partnership will be launched in December, Cisco’s software only subscription starting at $65,000 a year and contracts offered for duration one, three, and five years. Extra fees would be charged for Amazon EKS clusters, and computing power necessary to run AWS cloud.
