Today's guest blog comes to us courtesy of Tesora CEO, Ken Rugg.

The Cisco Intercloud is a pretty amazing demonstration of the power of OpenStack. It will have incredible worldwide reach with 350 data centers across 50 countries. Unlike Microsoft, Amazon, and Google, however, Cisco isn't building all the data centers itself. Instead it is relying on its telecommunications service provider partners to provide most of that capacity with companies like Telefonica in Spain, Deutsche Telecom in Germany and Telstra in Australia.

Of course, as powerful as this kind of open cloud may be, it's only going to be as successful as the applications and services that are built on top of it. This is another area where Cisco is pushing to become a leader, starting with a stable of 35 independent software vendors in areas such as big data, Internet of Things, and software development environments.

One important core Intercloud service will be Database as a Service (DBaaS). In this area, they will be deploying the core OpenStack Trove service to provide database capacity on-demand for many popular databases such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, and Cassandra.

If you'd like to learn more about how this service is being implemented and delivered, you should mark your calendar for OpenStack Trove Day, being held on August 25^thin San Jose, CA. Dave Lively, Director Product Management for Cisco Cloud will present how Cisco is working with Tesora to deliver DBaaS to Intercloud customers as a native service.

The event is free and you can register here.