Orange to Use VMware to Jump to the Top of the Cloud

With more and more companies jumping on to the cloud band-wagon, cloud computing is no longer a mere buzz word, but a reality. As businesses vie with each other for a larger slice of the IT cake, organizations want to improve their IT efficiency and business agility to stay in business.

 

And so, Orange Business Services (News - Alert) has decided to join the VMware vCloud initiative to enable cloud computing providers to develop a common platform based on VMware vSphere that will enable cloud interoperability and portability. 

 

By providing unique solutions that help customers switch easily between cloud computing providers, get different cloud services, and have a combination of cloud and non-cloud services working together, Orange Business Services wants to be at the top of the cloud services table.

 

Adoption of cloud computing can be driven by creating a simple model, wherein buying cloud computing will be hassle free.

 

"The main point of cloud computing is to bring more flexibility to enterprises, enabling them to use what they need, when they need it, at optimized and variable costs," Didier Jaubert, senior vice president, Global Services, Orange Business Services, said.

 

Jaubert very ambitiously said that Orange Business services should be one of the first service providers to offer flexibility and interoperability to its customers, and was confident that working closely with VMware would help to achieve that objective in a short span of time.

 

Acknowledging that VMware was a key partner to Orange Business Services on cloud computing, Jaubert also acknowledged that VMware technology was the cornerstone of its Flexible Computing offer launched in June 2009.

 

"We are excited to partner with Orange Business Services on the VMware vCloud Initiative," Dan Chu, vice president, Cloud Infrastructure and Services, VMware, said.

 

Chu added that by focusing on integrating and connecting public and private clouds in a compatible manner, together they could provide customers with agile, efficient and secure enterprise cloud computing environments.

 

Orange is the key brand of France Telecom (News - Alert), one of the world's leading telecommunications operators. It already has solid expertise with cloud services, partly thanks to a growing portfolio and to the work of 150 cloud computing R&D specialists. In addition to managing 12,000 servers for enterprise customers, it can design, build and operate private clouds for large multinational companies.

 

 

VMware, Inc. announced that it had entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Zimbra (News - Alert), a leading vendor of e-mail and collaboration software, from Yahoo! Inc. This acquisition will further VMware's mission of taking complexity out of the data center, desktop, application development and core IT services, and deliver a fundamentally more efficient and new approach to IT.