Cisco, today announced its intent to acquire privately held Metacloud, Pasadena, Califonia-based cloud service company that offers OpenStack-as-a-Service to accelerate Cisco's Intercloud Strategy. The acquisition which is expected to be completed in the first quarter of 2015, will see Metacloud employees joining Cisco's Cloud Infrastructure and Managed Services organization led by Faiyaz Shahpurwala, senior vice president.
Metacloud's Founder and CEO wrote in a blog post, "Today, we are thrilled to share the news that Cisco has announced their intent to acquire Metacloud! Our team and technology will complement Cisco’s existing Cloud Services team and partners to help accelerate Cisco’s Intercloud delivery by providing the broadest choice across private, public, and hybrid clouds; across distributions; in heterogeneous infrastructure environments; on-premise and off."
According to Cisco, Metacloud's OpenStack-based cloud platform will accelerate Cisco's strategy to build the world's largest global Intercloud, a network of clouds, together with key partners to address customer requirements for a globally distributed, highly secure cloud platform capable of meeting the robust demands of the Internet of Everything.
“Cloud computing has dramatically changed the IT landscape. To enable greater business agility and lower costs, organizations are shifting from an on-premise IT structure to hybrid IT -- a mix of private cloud, public cloud, and on-premise applications. The resulting silos present a challenge to IT administrators, as choice, visibility, data sovereignty and protection in this world of many clouds requires an open platform. We believe Metacloud's technology will play a critical role in enabling our customers to experience a seamless journey to a new world of many clouds, providing choice, flexibility, and data governance."
- Hilton Romanski, senior vice president, Cisco Corporate Development
