As Chris Latimer noted in Bridging the Gap with APIs:
“Moving to the cloud can be a daunting task for many companies. Often, the justifiable enthusiasm around a public cloud strategy might be tempered with concerns about how cloud solutions will talk to mission-critical legacy apps that may be ill-suited for cloud migration, such as key systems of record for customer, transactional, and billing data. Cisco and Google announced a partnership that will enable organizations to extend their existing investments with innovative cloud services. The on-premises version of the Apigee Edge API platform will be part of the joint Cisco-Google solution to help companies more easily and securely expose legacy systems and data in a hybrid cloud environment. An example of this type of modernization is Autodesk, a company that has long been synonymous with industry-leading 3D design software for desktops.”
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