Microsoft has closed a deal with Hewlett Packard (HP) to provide cloud computing services through HP’s EDS outsourcing unit. Worth up to USD3bn for the two companies, the deal will see EDS resell Microsoft's Business Productivity Online Suite as an integrated part of its own Workplace Services portfolio. HP will also provide ancillary services.
Microsoft recently announced it has completed cloud computing deals with Accenture and Avanade. The company is attempting to beef up its cloud computing offering in response to increased competition from competitors such as Google and Oracle. The firm hopes to reverse a trend of users abandoning Microsoft Office suite in favour of online computing services.
HP is also integrating Microsoft’s System Centre into its Insight Control suite to create what it claims is the industry’s ?first integrated management environment?.
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