January 15, 2010 at 14:32Cloud market record deal
It seems that large vendors have conspired to anneal neodetski from the very beginning of the year. For a long time there was no such fun.
Before Miscrosoft and HP announced that they were investing 250 lemons in cloud solutions (not bad, but just as much as ringing than specifics), IBM immediately opened its card - the current record contract for cloud services. Panasonic decided to transfer 100 thousand employees (this is for starters, and in the future - 300 thousand) to cloud-based mail and LotusLive collaboration tools.
Given that they are refusing not from anything, but from Microsoft Exchange, the announcement turned out to be a kind of sonorous slap in the face of MS. Show, just a show. I wonder who will perform next? Seems to me that Cisco.
About the agreement between MS and HP, little is yet clear, there is actually no package offer, but most likely it will be on ProLiant servers, plus system management from HP, and from MS - Windows, Exchange, SQL Server, some of their ERP packages and naturally Hyper-V. This partnership didn’t come to companies from a good life - Cisco, with its Unified Computing System, is already biting its way into HP and even MS partner channels (although Tsisk was further away from Microsoft partners and does not have a layer of business applications).
On the other hand, HP had been hoping for a long time to make friends with Oracle and make a stack of business applications for the cloud with them, but recently Oracle finally sent HP a long way and began to use Sun blades instead of HP ProLiant. What is logical - now the goat is a bayan, when it has its own heaps of iron (yes, the purchase of Sun will not be completed in any way, but Oracle will have no problems).
Oracle and Sun - the main threat to the cloud alliance of MS and HP in the market of small and medium-sized businesses, where Oracle partners are teeming. And from medium-sized businesses and above - IBM with global partners in business applications, its own consulting division and partners, system integrators. Krupnyak is always too complicated to buy frozen semi-finished products, such customers still prefer to integrate the most suitable components from different suppliers.
The current contract between IBM and Panasonic, in addition to the record (EMNIP before the biggest cloud achievement was that Google managed to drag 30 thousand users in California from the Novell group to Google Apps) demonstrates three important things:
1) Clouds are already so mature that customers decide on mega-projects in this area
2) Clouds are of interest not only to small and medium-sized customers (as previously thought, mainly due to cost)
3) IBM, which did not sound their cloud plans on every corner, in less than a year brought their cloud services to mind. So, quiet glanders. The contract with Panasonic will change at least the perception of cloud leaders by customers: if before Amazon was considered a leader in principle, Google was strong in the user segment, they had only been watching IBM for the last year, and MS was spinning Azure, now Amazon and IBM stood in the corporate segment. even if not for sales.
Before Miscrosoft and HP announced that they were investing 250 lemons in cloud solutions (not bad, but just as much as ringing than specifics), IBM immediately opened its card - the current record contract for cloud services. Panasonic decided to transfer 100 thousand employees (this is for starters, and in the future - 300 thousand) to cloud-based mail and LotusLive collaboration tools.
Given that they are refusing not from anything, but from Microsoft Exchange, the announcement turned out to be a kind of sonorous slap in the face of MS. Show, just a show. I wonder who will perform next? Seems to me that Cisco.
About the agreement between MS and HP, little is yet clear, there is actually no package offer, but most likely it will be on ProLiant servers, plus system management from HP, and from MS - Windows, Exchange, SQL Server, some of their ERP packages and naturally Hyper-V. This partnership didn’t come to companies from a good life - Cisco, with its Unified Computing System, is already biting its way into HP and even MS partner channels (although Tsisk was further away from Microsoft partners and does not have a layer of business applications).
On the other hand, HP had been hoping for a long time to make friends with Oracle and make a stack of business applications for the cloud with them, but recently Oracle finally sent HP a long way and began to use Sun blades instead of HP ProLiant. What is logical - now the goat is a bayan, when it has its own heaps of iron (yes, the purchase of Sun will not be completed in any way, but Oracle will have no problems).
Oracle and Sun - the main threat to the cloud alliance of MS and HP in the market of small and medium-sized businesses, where Oracle partners are teeming. And from medium-sized businesses and above - IBM with global partners in business applications, its own consulting division and partners, system integrators. Krupnyak is always too complicated to buy frozen semi-finished products, such customers still prefer to integrate the most suitable components from different suppliers.
The current contract between IBM and Panasonic, in addition to the record (EMNIP before the biggest cloud achievement was that Google managed to drag 30 thousand users in California from the Novell group to Google Apps) demonstrates three important things:
1) Clouds are already so mature that customers decide on mega-projects in this area
2) Clouds are of interest not only to small and medium-sized customers (as previously thought, mainly due to cost)
3) IBM, which did not sound their cloud plans on every corner, in less than a year brought their cloud services to mind. So, quiet glanders. The contract with Panasonic will change at least the perception of cloud leaders by customers: if before Amazon was considered a leader in principle, Google was strong in the user segment, they had only been watching IBM for the last year, and MS was spinning Azure, now Amazon and IBM stood in the corporate segment. even if not for sales.