Cisco eats Cloupia to control freak clouds

And to have a VMware alternative

Here's a question: If Cisco Systems, storage partner EMC, and its virtualization and cloud minion VMware are all such good buddies in the Virtual Computing Environment, then why does Cisco need to by Cloupia, a maker of cloud management software?…

via The Register - Cloud

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