IBM Taps Cisco Tech for New Managed Private Cloud Service

IBM announced a new fully managed private cloud service based on Cisco's Unified Computing System (UCS), which combines datacenter server hardware, virtualization support, switching fabric, storage access and management software.Cisco UCS will power the new Managed Private Cloud-as-a-Service that runs on industry-standard, x86-architecture servers in two distinct flavors based on the choice of virtualization tech. Cisco said the new solution will address the new world of cloud computing that resulted from organizations moving operations to public cloud platforms only to encounter new constraints in an increasingly complex infrastructure. That, the company said, led many to follow a more balanced approach of deploying hybrid or multicloud environments in which applications and workloads are run on private and public clouds.