BANGALORE: The country's second largest software services firm, Infosys, has tied up with Microsoft to provide cloud-based offerings to clients.
The MoU will see the two companies collaborate on solution area development, technical proof of concepts, and sales and marketing initiatives to address the needs of global enterprises as they adopt the cloud, across industries such as financial services, manufacturing, retail and healthcare.
When computing is delivered over a network as a service , similar to water or electricity delivered through pipes and wires, it is called cloud computing. Though the move to cloud computing started several years ago, it is only in the past 8-9 months that cloud adoption has picked up significantly among enterprises, Global Head for Cloud and Vice-President at Infosys, Vishnu Bhat said.
Infosys gets about 2% of its total revenue from its cloud business and has identified this as a major growth driver. At the end of the last financial year, the company reported revenues of $6.1 billion.
According to Forrester estimates , the global market for cloud technology will go from about $40 billion at present to $241 billion by 2020. "We believe that by 2015, 50-60 % of the enterprise workload or the activities that enterprises use IT for, will be on the cloud," Bhat said.
Infosys will offer Microsoft Private Cloud solutions such as Windows Server Hyper-V and Microsoft System Center, and solutions on Windows Azure to clients. Infosys and Microsoft intend to co-create and architect cloud environments for large corporates while developing solutions across hybrid IT environments.
The two companies will jointly take these solutions to enterprise clients globally. To begin with the companies will work together in seven geographies that include the US, UK, Australia, France, Germany, Middleeast and India.
Infosys aims at working with clients as an end-to-end cloud ecosystem integrator, providing professional services on the cloud, business platforms in the cloud and a partner ecosystem. It has partnered with over 30 cloud providers, addressing various aspects of cloud adoption.
The partners, with whom Infosys also works on building IP, include SAP, Oracle, Force-. com and Microsoft.
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