Microsoft, Accenture try to ease the path to the hybrid cloud

Grazed from ComputerWorld.  Author: Joab Jackson.

To help organizations better organize their cloud assets, Microsoft and business consulting firm Accenture have released a package designed to make it easy to integrate in-house IT operations with Microsoft Azure cloud services.

The package is designed to "help enterprises more easily move into cloud technologies," said Paul Daugherty, Accenture chief technology officer. "Our large enterprise clients tell us the hybrid cloud is where they need to be. They need the combination of private and public capabilities."…


IT services provider Avanade, a Microsoft-Accenture joint venture, will offer the new package, called the Accenture Hybrid Cloud Solution for Microsoft Azure.  About 75 percent of all businesses have expressed the desire to move to a hybrid cloud architecture, in which some computing resources are managed in house and others are run within a public cloud, an Accenture survey of its customers found…

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