Cisco Systems, which is swiftly moving into the cloud computing infrastructure business and which will announce new cloud computing services at next week’s Cisco Live conference in Las Vegas, has named former Sun Microsystems cloud guru Lew Tucker as its first cloud computing CTO.
Tucker told eWEEK about his appointmenton 24 June at the GigaOm Structure conference here at the UCSF Mission Bay Conference centre.
Tucker will report to Cisco CTO Padmasree Warrior and to Tony Bates, who is senior vice president and general manager of Cisco’s Service Provider Group.
Tucker, who will interface directly with system architects and software developers, told eWEEK that “we definitely need to make the network more programmable and intelligent, and we will develop the ecosystem to do that.”
Tucker started his new job the week of June 21 and said he has his first set of meetings on Monday, June 28.
Cisco has seen its business evolve quickly in the last several years—from establishing itself the world’s No. 1 switch-and-router-producing Internet pipe fitter to becoming a major data centre infrastructure player in direct competition with such long-established players as IBM, Oracle/Sun and Hewlett-Packard.
The company introduced its Unified Computing System server architecture in March 2009 and has since added key peripheral businesses such as WebEx, TelePresence and even the Flip video camera to scale out its offerings.
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