Cisco to launch a Cloud Platform

Following the release of the business-oriented tablet, Cisco has invaded another new for them Enterprise 2.0 sphere - today the company announced the availability of the cloud platform Cisco Hosted Collaboration. However, the platform is very specialized - it's intended only for hosting of Cisco's solutions: Cisco Unified Communications, Cisco Telepresence, Cisco Unified Contact Center and Cisco Quad. And the hosted applications will be managed not by the customers themselves and not by Ciscom but by Cisco's partners. The platform will provide partners with a virtualized environment where they can quickly install multiple application instances on single server and offer them to multiple customers. Of course, this scheme will make Cisco's solution implementations less expensive and long-term, and will allow the partners to provide a subscription model.