Cisco Enters In Web Hosting And Virtualization Industry

Cisco Systems announced that it will start selling servers equipped with virtualization software in March 2009. The networking equipment producer combines hardware and virtualization technologies from VMWare  as well as its own applications. the company’s move to data storage and hosting industry has been a target of speculation for a long time.

The Cisco server will not be target enterprise hosting and data center market. The analysts say that the company identifies as key business area the consumer-generated content and prepares to provide web based software to customers. Cisco is the world’s biggest network equipment maker.