Hybrid Cloud Providers
With Cisco Intercloud Fabric, you can do all this and more. Cloud providers can now offer a complete hybrid cloud solution. Differentiate your offering as a premium service and provide a robust set of cloud deployment options. Cisco Intercloud Fabric helps you deploy highly secure hybrid clouds. (3:30 min) Access Cisco and IDC resources and tools to help you optimize your cloud strategy.
This product is deployed onsite and enables connectivity to a broad ecosystem of cloud providers to support hybrid cloud deployments for enterprises. Product components include: Start creating secure hybrid clouds by downloading a free 60-day trial of the Cisco Intercloud Fabric for Business software. Click here to download white papers and access other learning resources. This product is ideal for service providers who want to provide a hybrid cloud deployment model and integrate the Intercloud Fabric ecosystem. This software is installed on the provider's cloud and integrates with the service provider's infrastructure. Its product component is Intercloud Fabric Provider, a virtual appliance deployed and managed by cloud providers. Vendors can quickly offer hybrid clouds without creating or adding your own APIs.
Intercloud Fabric Provider helps the company's embedded workloads to the provider's cloud. Choosing a hybrid cloud provider is probably more difficult than evaluating private or public cloud offerings. To make things a little easier, here's how the top six hybrid cloud providers compare. Microsoft has spent considerable resources to expand its Azure cloud. While Azure experienced initial growth difficulties, it is clear that Microsoft has learned from its competitors' experiences to avoid some common mistakes. Using consistent product families allows administrators to get up to speed quickly because the tools are the same. However, this is only true if System Center is already deployed internally and staff are trained, which can be a problem because it includes several products, including Virtual Machine Manager, Data Protection Manager, Endpoint Protection, and Operations Manager.
Security is leveraged from the existing Active Directory infrastructure and provides a transparent security management environment. However, this may result in additional security risks based on existing Windows Server vulnerabilities. Azure is great for Microsoft stores because several products, including SQL, Active Directory, the .Net platform, and other Microsoft applications and services are available in Azure today. The Azure catalog continues to grow and develop as well. This will help increase transparency between internal and external resources with a large catalog of applications. Project Lightwave (for access management) and Project Photon (for Microsoft Linux containers) will enable greater compatibility with existing container technologies and find their place in the hybrid cloud solution. Lightwave and Photon are designed to catch up with existing container technologies where Microsoft Nano Server is a more radical but welcome innovation.
Nano Server is a minimal installation of Windows Server designed for the cloud and developers. This level of portability with Windows applications in containers that canbeing moved easily into the hybrid cloud is what Windows developers have been looking for since the containers were first introduced. VMware products were one of the first cloud operating systems. VMware has been able to use its performance and reliability history to become a good choice for many cloud providers. However, VMware has only been in the cloud provider space for a very short time. This places the company behind a lot of
