Moving applications to the could is a major step for businesses and finding the right partner to make the transition a success is vital.
The latest latest fruit of the long-standing alliance between technology consulting specialist Accenture and Microsoft is aimed at providing a powerful hybrid cloud platform to bring new capabilities, economics and innovation to the enterprise.
Accenture Hybrid Cloud Solution for Microsoft Azure -- suggestions for snappier names welcome in the comments -- uses new hybrid cloud technologies and services to help enterprises build and manage enterprise-wide cloud infrastructure and applications. It's jointly funded and developed along with Avenade -- a company launched by the two technology giants in 2000.
"Enterprises around the globe are looking for the right platforms and partners to help them transform and thrive in a mobile-first, cloud-first world," says Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft. "The Microsoft cloud, combined with Accenture's industry knowledge and implementation expertise, accelerates our customers’ cloud adoption and unlocks new benefits, including powerful new applications, data-driven insights and increased productivity".
The new solution integrates and builds on key existing capabilities from the three companies to help enterprises deliver a one-stop service solution. The Microsoft Azure platform provides enterprise performance, hyper-scale and hybrid capabilities connected to Windows Server with Hyper-V, System Center and Azure Pack running in customer data centers.
The Accenture Cloud Platform supports multi-platform environments with self-service provisioning for any application. There's a central dashboard to control cloud brokerage and management capabilities, along with enterprise-grade governance, reliability, security and operations.
The product also includes professional services to help clients define and execute their cloud goals, based on Accenture's specialized industry knowledge.
"Our expanded relationship with Microsoft represents a game-changing proposition that addresses the biggest concerns and complexities our clients face as they look to leverage the cloud," says Pierre Nanterme, chairman and CEO of Accenture. "With new demands being placed on IT departments every day, enterprises need to smartly connect their infrastructure, software applications, data and operations capabilities in order to become agile, intelligent, digital businesses. This unique collaboration with Microsoft and Avanade is one of Accenture's most strategic and important initiatives for driving enterprise-wide cloud adoption".
The solution is already being piloted and more information is available on the Accenture website.
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