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Data Sheet
Cisco Intercloud Fabric for Business
Combining the Benefits of Public and Private Clouds in a Hybrid Cloud
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Intercloud Fabric for Business enables enterprises to create a seamless hybrid cloud by transparently
extending their data centers or private clouds into public clouds and provider-hosted clouds. Using industry-leading
Cisco networking capabilities, Cisco Intercloud Fabric allows enterprises to deploy a hybrid cloud that combines the
benefits of public and private clouds. With Cisco Intercloud Fabric for Business, enterprises can have the agility
and flexibility they need while retaining full security and control.
Overview
With Cisco Intercloud Fabric for Business, customers can build secure hybrid clouds and extend their existing data
center to public clouds on demand. Cisco Intercloud Fabric is a highly secure, open, and flexible solution that
enables freedom in workload placement across private and public clouds in response to business needs. It helps
ensure the same network security and access control policies in the public cloud as previously were enforced in the
data center. Cisco Intercloud Fabric enables enterprises to connect on-premises data centers to multiple provider
clouds and take advantage of elastic cloud capacity, lower costs, and fast access to resources.
The benefits of Cisco Intercloud Fabric include:
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Freedom to place workloads across heterogeneous clouds with unified workload management
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Bidirectional workload mobility across clouds
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Choice of hypervisor and public cloud providers
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Centralized visibility across private and public cloud environments
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Consistent operational model with common network and security policies across private and public clouds
Cisco Intercloud Fabric
Figure 1 provides an overview of the Cisco Intercloud Fabric solution.
Figure 1. Solution Overview: Cisco Intercloud Fabric