Capgemini and EMC Corporation has entered into a strategic alliance to jointly identify and build multiple cloud-based IT-as-a-Service offerings, enabling customers to reduce costs and gain efficiency and business agility.
The 'Storage as a Service' is believed to deliver 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 is said to be rolled out over the next 12-18 months.
Both companies is believed to jointly work to identify and build tailored solutions based on Capgemini's global service capabilities and EMC's best-of-breed cloud optimized information management technologies under the terms of a five-year agreement. The solutions is to be 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. These services is said to provide flexible, agile business solutions in line with evolving client needs. They also will enable customers to gain considerable savings in annual IT spend by lowering the total cost of ownership, shifting from Capex to Opex-based models, and implementing a common platform and tools which will support process standardization and management efficiencies.
This collaborative initiative is said to 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'.
