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Cisco Intercloud Fabric provides a faster and flexible response to business needs and addresses the potential challenges with hybrid clouds. A hybrid cloud is an interaction between private and provider clouds where private clouds extend to provider clouds and use provider cloud resources in a secure and scalable way. Cisco Intercloud Fabric lets you place workloads across heterogeneous environments in multiple provider clouds. Cisco Intercloud Fabric provides the architectural foundation for secure hybrid clouds, which allows enterprises to easily and securely connect the private clouds to the provider cloud as needed and on demand. With a hybrid cloud, enterprises can combine the benefits of private and provider clouds. Cisco Intercloud Fabric provides the following benefits:
Provides a single point of management and control for virtual workloads across multiple provider clouds.
Provides a choice of cloud providers, such as Amazon Web Service, Microsoft Azure, and Cisco Intercloud Services – V.
Provides highly secure, scalable connectivity to extend private clouds to service provider clouds.
Enforces consistent network and workload policies throughout the hybrid cloud.
Enables workload mobility to and from service provider clouds for virtual workloads.