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VIRTUALISATION Has Capgemini dropped Google Apps in favour of Amazon Web Services?
VIRTUALISATION Has Capgemini dropped Google Apps in favour of Amazon Web Services? | Has Capgemini dropped Google Apps in favour of Amazon Web Services? |
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| by Stuart Corner | |
| Wednesday, 19 November 2008 | |
  
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Amazon Web Services provides Amazon's developer customers with access to in-the-cloud infrastructure services based on Amazon's own back-end technology platform. According to Amazon, developers can use to enable virtually any type of business. The centre will offer cloud consulting development, migration and back-up services. and will initially focus on three enterprise use cases: Microsoft SharePoint in the cloud, Oracle ERP in the cloud, and application development and testing in the cloud. Capgemini says it has conducted successful pilots of Amazon Web Services for all three use cases and believes that, under the right circumstances, leveraging cloud computing has the potential to create significant value for enterprise customers in terms of scale, flexibility, reduction of cost expenditure, reduced time to market and environmental efficiency. In order to help enterprise customers understand cloud computing and define business relevant opportunities, Capgemini will be offering cloud computing workshops built around its Accelerated Solutions Environment (ASE) methodology. "We want every business to understand the benefits of Amazon Web Services—that they can save money without giving up speed, reliability, flexibility, and performance—and to be able to get up and running with our services quickly and easily," said Adam Selipsky, vice president of product management and developer relations for Amazon Web Services. "Collaborating with Capgemini to help them offer their enterprise clients the benefits of cloud computing through Amazon Web Services helps us achieve this goal." In September 2007 Capgemini announced that it was extending its outsourcing portfolio to include Google Apps Premier Edition. Paul Spence, Capgemini's CEO for Global Outsourcing, said at the time that: "Incorporating Google Apps Premier Edition into our offering is yet one more way that we are helping our clients adopt technological innovations within a robust and tested framework.." Shortly afterwards Capgemini announced its first 'customer', one of is own call centres . If it has signed up any more, it has kept very quite about these successes. That 'sale' is the most recent news item on the web site Capgemini set up to promote the offering . |
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