Cisco will now be able to attract more developers through this platform
According to Cisco news on Wednesday the company provided the statement saying that they would be acquiring Piston Cloud Computing soon, which actually is a startup that is widely known for its OpenStack cloud distribution.
According to more current Cisco updates on a blog post, the head of the business development department in the company Hilton Romanski stated that Piston company will play a vital role in the company's "ambitious Intercloud vision."
Cisco System always makes everyone think of it as a network equipment company , but it also consists of a communication division that includes Webex. Earlier in May the company announced that it plans to purchase Tropo, which is similar to the Twilio; a communication platform that adds communication tools to applications. API is making things quite easier for developers to add new features to applications and developers are quite capable of adding tools for communicate.
Cisco buying out Tropo gives the company access to more than 200,000 developers, according to the company. Tropo provides developers its products for free and then generates revenue from every communication made through the Tropo platform. However, it is still not confirmed if Cisco adopts the same pricing strategy. This is expected to attract more developers for the company.
“Together, we will help extend the Cisco platform to third party endpoints and applications via modern APIs and enable Cisco to better serve the developer community,” the company stated in a blog post.
Intercloud, which was launched 2014 is basically Cisco's own efforts in order to create a connected network of clouds. This is made up of two components: the Intercloud Fabric, and the Application Centric Infrastructure software. The Intercloud Fabric allows the received workloads to be migrated among various public clouds, and hence the software itself automatically provides resources depending on the received workload.
"The Intercloud is designed to deliver secure cloud services everywhere in the world," Romanski said. "The Intercloud provides choice of services, all with compliance and control. In a nutshell: we're delivering cloud the way our customers need it."
Piston Cloud Computing, which was co-founded by a former NASA employee Joshua McKenty, fits in with Intercloud well because it would allow Cisco more dominace and development around distributed systems and automated deployment. Also, in addition that, it would also significantly help Cisco in adding another level of infrastructure to the Cisco OpenStack private cloud.
It is still unclear how many members of the Piston team will head from Psiton to Cisco, but Romanski said Piston will eventually merge with Cisco's Cloud Services team. Also the details of the company's prior acquisition deal of Tropo are still unclear, but it is expected to take place in 2015 only.
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