RIM will soon release playbook on cloud storage and Microsoft

Jim Tobin, senior vice president of Rim, said Jim Tobin with Microsoft to make it easier for users to use cloud computing technology. Under this agreement, Microsoft will take over the information of some rim users.

"This is a more efficient model for everyone," he said. "Tobin said in a media interview in Toronto in Wednesday. He argues that since smartphones are starting to replace desktop computers for more work and now have tablets, it is time to move information from the computer's hard disk to the local server.

By the end of this year, Tobin said, One-fourth of RIM's big corporate clients would turn data into the cloud, which would halve by the end of 2012. Last year's corporate information storage technology spending was about $1.5 trillion trillion, with about 5% being used for cloud storage, according to data from IDC and Gartner, a US market research firm.

He declined to make predictions about the money that rim and its customers would save.

To challenge Apple in the tablet market, rim is looking for ways to boost Playbook's appeal. Apple's ipad sales reached 7.33 million units in the previous quarter, and the company said 65% of Fortune 100 companies were testing or deploying the ipad, including Procter and Gamble, Lowe ' s and Hyatt hotel group.

RIM has shown playbook to a large part of Fortune 100, which has a "high" interest in the device, Tobin said.

Jim Balsillie, the joint CEO of Rim, said last month that rim planned to start selling playbook in March or early April Jim Barcilly. Tobin declined to disclose the exact time, but said it would be "very soon". Apple's ipad was listed in April 2010 and has sold 15 million units since then.

As playbook has not yet been listed, users are buying ipads and products such as Motorola Xoom, which was listed last month. These two devices are equipped with a 10-inch screen, larger than the Playbook 7-inch screen. Balsillie with Jobs after Apple CEO Steve Jobs said last year that a small-screen tablet computer would "see the light Die".

"Playbook is currently the only suitable product for the enterprise." For businesses that already use BlackBerrys, it's natural to accept playbook quickly. "said Tobin. (PEI)