<p>Cisco on Tuesday announced that it is increasing the number of collaboration software products that its hosting partners can offer via the cloud, hoping to make the bundles more attractive to the partners and their customers.</p><p>At an announcement at its Collaboration Summit in Los Angeles, Cisco also said that it will provide its cloud-based WebEx web conferencing product for the first time as packaged software that customers can deploy on-premise or in a private cloud.</p><p>[ Discover what's new in business applications with InfoWorld's Technology: Applications newsletter and our Technology: Microsoft newsletter. ]</p><p>"We want to give our customers more choice in how they deploy our collaboration products," said Murali Sitaram, Vice President and General Manager of Cisco Cloud Collaboration Applications Technology Group.</p><p><a href="http://www.infoworld.com/d/cloud-computing/cisco-adds-cloud-collaboration-services-its-hosting-partners-can-offer-204995">Keep reading...</a></p>