Opinion : On Premise, not dead, just yet.
The Road to Office 365
"The combination of Azure, Lync Online, Office 365, BPOS (aka MS Online 2) will force businesses to give Microsoft a second chance at taking the rest of their Enterprise IT budget. The cloud will transfrom Microsoft and the entire industry. As the rate of cloud migrations from on-premise pickup traditional hardware & software vendors will be forced to respond. EMC/VMware has a response...." -Karl Preddie
Article : EMC & Hybrid Cloud
Wednesday, 09 February 2011 Written by Rakesh Dogra
EMC has recently announced a far reaching plan to take leadership status in hybrid cloud migration. This plan relies heavily on VMware’s virtualization platform. EMC is confident that cloud computing is the biggest game changing technology to drive the future. The company has put its weight behind this faith and has realigned business to be able to meet client demand. The hybrid cloud is the goal in sight for most companies and they will go from virtualizing tier 2 and 3 applications to offering IT as a service.
EMC has set itself to occupy a strategic middle position in the confluence of cloud and enterprise data. Data storage, according to their CEO, Joe Tucci, is also a critical area since there is an explosion of data and information taking place. Coupled with the growing trend of virtualization, big data storage is also going to become critical. EMC has also positioned itself to offer effective storage for the cloud.
Read more at - http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Cloud-Computing/EMC-VMware-Poised-to-Lead-Hybrid-Cloud-Migration-in-2011-Tucci-584386/
