Companies such as Chef, Citrix, Cloudera, Cloudify, Couchbase, Druva, Egnyte, Hortonworks and Informatica will offer cloud services through the platform. Cisco additionally revealed hybrid cloud software enhancements including new security capabilities, increased manageability across clouds and support for additional hypervisors.
The conference also saw Cirrity, Datalink, iland, Long View, Peak 10, Presidio, QTS, Quest, Sungard Availability Services and Virtustream announcing new hybrid cloud services built on the Intercloud.
The move sees Cisco partnering with commercial app development companies such as Apprenda, Active State and Docker, while expanding its participation in open source developer communities such as Cloud Foundry, OpenShift and Kubernetes. The company is also building an integrated toolset with access to APIs and micro-services across all Cisco technologies on the Intercloud.
In addition, Cisco is working with big data solutions providers including MapR, Hortonworks, Cloudera and the Apache Hadoop Community to provide hybrd implementation of enterprise big data solutions. Cisco will securely connect and extend on-premise Hadoop solutions with Cisco Intercloud Services.
This will allow Cisco to coonect an extend its on-premise Hadoop solutions through Cisco Intercloud Services, providing identical policy, control, security and resiliency across their big data implementations. The cloud can therefore be used to extend on-premise big data operations.
Finally, Cisco announced it is exposing APIs for the application developer to allow network control, performance and security to be delivered from the data centre to the device. The company will also offer data virtualisation, Energywise and the Cisco Services Exchange Platform via the Intercloud.
The additions to the InterCloud aim to increase security, through the zone-based firewall services which now support Microsoft Azure. Cisco also extended virtual machine onboarding to support Amazon VPM and added support for OpenStack KVM and Microsoft Hyper-V to the fabric.
Other names on the list of partners include ActiveState, Basho,CliQr, Cloud Enabled, CloudBerry Lab, , , CloudLink, Couchbase, CTERA, Datadog, Davra Networks, desktopsites, ElasticBox, F5 Networks, MongoDB, Moonwalk, Nirmata, Panzura, Pegasystems, Platfora, Sanovi, ScaleArc, Skytree, StoAmigo, Talisen Technologies and Zenoss.
The InterCloud marketplace will open in the second half of 2015.
