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