Capgemini and EMC Corporation recently announced a strategic
alliance to jointly identify and build multiple cloud-based
IT-as-a-Service offerings. As one of Capgemini's global strategic
partners, EMC, will play a significant role in helping Capgemini
expand its cloud-based business service portfolio globally. The
first offering to be rolled out will be 'Storage-as-a-Service',
aimed to help deliver more agile and efficient storage solutions to
customers.
According to Forrester Research Inc., the global market for cloud
computing will grow from USD 40.7 billion in 2011 to more than USD
241 billion in 2020, and the market for private cloud solutions
will grow from USD 7.8 billion in 2011 to USD 15.9 billion.
Forrester's "models reveal a significant cost difference, with the
cloud-based model coming in 74 percent less expensive than
Infrastructure & Operations running it in-house." Forrester
attributes this higher cost to several factors, including: staff,
facilities and power, and data migration.
The 'Storage as a Service' offer delivers a cost-effective way to
consume storage that removes the complexity of capacity planning by
providing storage tiering to meet varied customer demands and
increase business agility. Capgemini and EMC have developed a
common and repeatable storage architecture that delivers
predictable costs and service levels and shifts storage costs from
capital expenditure to operational expenditure.In addition,
'Messaging-as-a-Service' and other offerings will be rolled out
over the next 12-18 months.
Bill Teuber, EMC's Vice Chairman, commented "EMC and Capgemini
share the same vision for providing customers with the cloud-based
services that enable them to enjoy the benefits of cloud computing,
including increased efficiency and business agility. Capgemini's
global scope will enable customers around the world to more easily
accelerate and adopt cloud computing to meet their business
objectives."
Patrick Nicolet, CEO of Infrastructure Services at Capgemini said,
"We are delighted to be making this important strategic
announcement and feel that EMC is an ideal partner for us to meet
the growing demand for cloud and As-a-Service solutions. Leveraging
EMC's world-class offerings in data and cloud computing, starting
with 'Storage as a Service', we are certain that this agreement
will help us to offer improved, differentiated and competitive
solutions to customers worldwide."
Under the terms of a five-year agreement, both companies will
jointly work to identify and build tailored solutions based on
Capgemini's global service capabilities and EMC's cloud optimized
information management technologies.
The solutions will be designed to meet customers' unique
business challenges, requirements and service level agreements for
specific vertical market segments and geographies including North
America, the UK, Netherlands, the Nordics, France, Germany, China
and Brazil. This collaborative initiative will leverage common
channels through Capgemini and EMC to bring to market a portfolio
of end-to-end cloud-based 'as-a-service' offerings that initially
include the new 'Storage-as-a-Service'. Capgemini's relationship
with EMC dates back to 2002 when the companies began offering joint
pay-as-you-go storage services.
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