Amazon and Cisco have a new product for companies that arent ready to fully embrace the cloud
Summary
Amazon Web Services and Cisco announced on Thursday that theyre teaming up on a product that will allow developers to build applications in the cloud or in traditional data centers while making it easier for them to move between the two.Its Ciscos latest effort to create hybrid options for customers that want to push work to the cloud but still need to run some projects on their own hardware for privacy and regulatory reasons."Containers are the way applications are built today," said David Goeckeler, executive vice president and general manager of Ciscos networking and security business, in an interview.Cisco remains a powerful player in the world of traditional data centers, where companies are buying their own networking switches and routers .But increasingly that infrastructure has moved to the cloud, making it difficult for Cisco and other data center companies to find growth in their main markets.