What Microsoft and Accenture’s Cloud Partnership Means
December 12, 2014
Grazed from Nasdaq. Author: Editorial Staff.
Microsoft recently teamed up with Accenture to jointly fund and build a new hybrid cloud bundle, which is expected to launch next year. The "hybrid cloud" refers to businesses managing some of their own resources in-house, while relying on external cloud services for others. For example, a company can keep its recent customer data on in-house storage, but send its archived data to a public cloud service.
This approach, which is built on top of existing IT services, is useful for large companies, which can’t transfer their data to the cloud as quickly as smaller businesses…
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