The report had said that Cisco's planned subscription
service, called Cloud Stack, would also help manage hardware and software
within private data centers for customers who cannot do so on their own, or
would prefer to outsource it.
"We are focused on hybrid cloud tooling across public
and private infrastructures. At this time we are not planning to offer a
solution to specifically repatriate cloud apps and any suggestion otherwise is
inaccurate," a company spokesperson said in a statement.
There is no clarity on the timeline for the launch of Cloud
Stack, which is in the early stage of development, the report said, citing
people familiar with the matter.
During the pandemic, demand for cloud service providers shot
up as businesses, schools and government institutions looked for cost-effective
ways to shift online.
Amazon.Com Inc's Amazon Web Services pioneered the public
cloud by letting businesses rent data centers on a subscription basis.
Microsoft Corp's Azure and Google Cloud also help companies shift their
operations to the public cloud.