Cisco and Google Find Mutual Interest in Cloud Computing

Cisco and Google Find Mutual Interest in Cloud Computing
The Silicon Valley giants on Wednesday announced a collaboration to help companies manage software and technology services
that may run in their own data centers or in facilities operated by external cloud services.
By combining Google programming technology and Cisco networking and security software, they said, tech managers can create and manage software
that can run securely in or outside their companies’ data centers.
Companies that once spent heavily on new hardware from Cisco
and other suppliers increasingly rent cloud services instead, with companies like Amazon doing most of the heavy lifting in the background.
“Every company that built an empire on selling equipment to companies to put in their data centers is feeling incredible pressure,” said Dave Bartoletti, a vice president
and principal analyst at Forrester Research, a market research firm.
accounted for 34 percent of the roughly $11 billion spent on such cloud services in the second
quarter, compared with 11 percent for Microsoft, 8 percent for IBM and 5 percent for Google.
SAN FRANCISCO — Google and Cisco Systems, two trendsetters in different eras of the internet, are joining forces as
the growth of cloud computing puts new pressure on big tech companies and leads to strange corporate bedfellows.