July 12, 2010
Partners “All In” to Cloud Computing at WPC 2010
Top executives from Microsoft talked with more than 14,000 attendees today about the impact of cloud computing and the myriad of ways it will enable partners to deliver compelling new services to their customers. The company made several announcements, including the introduction of the Windows Azure platform appliance, the first turnkey cloud services platform for deployment in customer and service provider datacenters. Dell Inc., eBay Inc., Fujitsu Ltd. and HP are early adopters of a limited production release of the appliance.
Microsoft’s 640,000 partners generated more than 6 million highly skilled jobs and approximately $537 billion in local revenues last year. Top of mind for these partners who sell, customize, build upon, implement and support Microsoft solutions worldwide is the industry’s shift to cloud computing and their continued growth. In his keynote address, Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, highlighted the critical role partners will continue to play in driving the IT industry’s transformation to cloud computing and helping fuel economic growth and job creation in local communities around the world.
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