In the largest ever cloud computing deal, Panasonic and IBM have come together with Panasonic revealing that it would adopt IBM's LotusLive suite of collaboration technologies. As pr the new deal, as many as 100,000 Panasonic workers will get into the support act which would thereby pave the way for effective implementation of the arrangement.
The new deal would see Panasonic up its IT infrastructure without increasing its internal IT departments as it builds on a decision to unify its brands worldwide under the Panasonic name. The hosted LotusLive suite includes e-mail, conferencing, chat and file sharing.
According to a report quoting Mitsuhiro Aoyama, vice president of corporate information systems at Panasonic, the new cloud computing agreement will allow the company's employees to function as a globally integrated enterprise.
This would, in turn, result in a situation that everyone can work as if they were in the same location. It has also been pointed out by analysts that the deal is more significant as an example of mix-and-match outsourcing rather than for its cloud-computing aspect. Forrester sees this as a strategic right-sourcing where in IT bosses will outsource only the services they need when they realize they do not have enough internal resources.
It may be recalled here that IBM had already projected that the global cloud-computing market will grow at a compounded annual rate of 28 percent to $126 billion by 2012. Now with the deal having happened, a new level for the growing industry of outsourced, cloud-based services is bound to take shape.
The new deal would see Panasonic up its IT infrastructure without increasing its internal IT departments as it builds on a decision to unify its brands worldwide under the Panasonic name. The hosted LotusLive suite includes e-mail, conferencing, chat and file sharing.
According to a report quoting Mitsuhiro Aoyama, vice president of corporate information systems at Panasonic, the new cloud computing agreement will allow the company's employees to function as a globally integrated enterprise.
This would, in turn, result in a situation that everyone can work as if they were in the same location. It has also been pointed out by analysts that the deal is more significant as an example of mix-and-match outsourcing rather than for its cloud-computing aspect. Forrester sees this as a strategic right-sourcing where in IT bosses will outsource only the services they need when they realize they do not have enough internal resources.
It may be recalled here that IBM had already projected that the global cloud-computing market will grow at a compounded annual rate of 28 percent to $126 billion by 2012. Now with the deal having happened, a new level for the growing industry of outsourced, cloud-based services is bound to take shape.
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