March 2011: Stake In The Cloud
The past year will be remembered for a lot of things Cisco-related -- some Cisco would surely like to forget -- but it was the year when the vendor's cloud strategy really came into view. At the 2011 Partner Summit in New Orleans, Cisco debuted its Cloud Partner program, organizing Cisco solution providers into cloud builders, cloud providers and cloud services resellers. Later that year, in December, Cisco rolled out a cloud framework called CloudVerse as a way to organize how Cisco's unified data center, intelligent network and cloud applications come together to provide cloud architecture for customers making the transition.
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