Microsoft has invested billions of dollars in building cloud computing architecture

According to foreign media reports, Elop, Microsoft's corporate Elop, said in a keynote speech at the Convergence meeting in Sunday, the company will unswervingly push the development of cloud computing technology, because it can make higher profits.

So far, he says, Microsoft has invested billions of of billions of dollars in building cloud computing architectures to achieve economies of scale, "our aim is to reduce costs and to give customers the benefits they derive." "Microsoft will also be a winner," Elop said. Microsoft not only sells cloud computing applications, but also sells processing power and development platforms through Azure services. "In the past, our business was selling software," Elop said. In the era of cloud computing, we still sell software, but we will get a higher proportion of our customers ' it budgets. According to Elop, about 90% of Microsoft's technology teams will be working on cloud computing over the next 2 years.

Convergence is a meeting held by Microsoft for its Dynamics ERP (Enterprise resource Planning) and CRM (Customer resource management) applications.

"Cloud computing has made Microsoft and its customers" the center of the computing Revolution and we will continue to work with our clients, "he said in a keynote address to convergence. The focus of his speech was how to integrate Microsoft's other software, such as dynamics and office and unified Communications, so that customers would save money and time.

In his speech, Elop also demonstrated the prospects for the application of multi-touch technology in dynamics software. It is reported that Microsoft will release the new Office 2010 version in May, the new version will increase the online document function, against the pressure brought by Google Docs. The change in the form of these products is precisely the landing of cloud computing.

IBM announced today that it has acquired the cloud computing professional cast Iron BAE to provide online hosted software program services for this popular trend, although neither side disclosed the amount of the transaction. According to IBM, the Cast Iron Bae has thousands of company users using its software Internet services, including Allianz, Dow Jones and Time Warner companies.

In the current competitive global business environment, IBM is recognizing the need to reduce complexity and costs in order to increase business agility, the company said in a news release. To achieve this, many companies are evaluating key business applications that are provided through software, namely, service patterns and cloud computing deployments.

IBM said the acquisition of cast Iron BAE would greatly expand the company's business in cloud computing and that the cloud market would grow by 28% in the next few years, that is to say, compared with the annual revenue of $47 billion in 2008, The cloud computing market is expected to make 126 billion of dollars in profits in 2012.

IBM WebSphere General manager Craig Hayman said in an official press release: "The consolidation of IBM and cast Iron BAE will facilitate the deployment of enterprise applications to customers, regardless of where these applications are located." This will enable the enterprise to be more flexible, but also to provide their customers with a more powerful experience. ”