In the second recent move to strengthen its Intercloud services, Cisco today announced its intent to acquire San Francisco-based Piston Cloud Computing, a small company with a new type of cloud operating system.
In a blog post, Cisco senior vice president Hilton Romanski described the move as another important step towards realizing our ambitious Intercloud vision.
Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
For the past year, Cisco has been developing Intercloud, which it calls a globally connected network of clouds.
Last September, Cisco bought Metacloud, a Pasadena company that deploys and operates private clouds for global organizations.
The two acquisitions will further enhance our capabilities around cloud automation, availability, and scale, Romanski wrote.
With the Intercloud, Cisco is taking aim at the global private cloud marketplace, offering secure cloud services to companies who can either build their own private clouds or get them from a Cisco provider.
Piston will join Cisco s Cloud Services team under Faiyaz Shahpurwala, senior vice president, Cloud Infrastructure and Managed Services Organization
Piston makes CloudOSâ ¢, which it calls a new type of operating system that enables agile development teams to quickly deploy new services, frameworks and orchestration tools on commodity hardware, without wrestling with infrastructure plumbing.
Cisco is one of its backers, along with True Ventures, Hummer Winblad, Swisscom Ventures, Data Collective, and Divergent Ventures.
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