Cisco aims to be 'arms supplier'of cloud services

摘要

Cisco's Cloud strategy encompasses pretty much everything under the sun save one - actual cloud services. Cisco vows, forthetimebeing anyway, not to get into cloud services and compete with Amazon, Google and other cloud providers that may be Cisco customers, says the company's new cloud computing chief. "Cisco's motto is to be the arms supplier," says Lew Tucker, Cisco's cloud CTO, who joined the company about six months ago from Sun. "Cisco, right now, has no intention of being a cloud provider."