Cisco were not operating a public cloud, so there is no hardware to get rid of. Intercloud was a way for a network of smaller "Cisco Powered" cloud providers to

Cisco were not operating a public cloud, so there is no hardware to get rid of. Intercloud was a way for a network of smaller "Cisco Powered" cloud providers to interoperate and allow workload mobility to/from on-prem Cisco / OpenStack deployments.