2009年11月18日水曜日

NTT Americaがクラウド事業開始予定:OpSourceのインフラを採用、北米市場に展開

ターゲット顧客層がどこなのか、興味深い。  SMBなのか、Enterpriseなのか。  両方攻める、というのは難しいのでは、と思う。

NTT America Unveils Cloud Computing Service


NTT America (News - Alert), a wholly owned U.S. subsidiary of NTT Communications Corp., announced that the company is working OpSource to deliver a new service it calls “OpSource Cloud,” a new cloud computing solution.
 
OpSource Cloud is designed to allow IT departments to manage their security as they would within their internal IT infrastructure, while offering end users Web browser access to enterprise applications.
 
OpSource Cloud offers online sign-up and pay by the hour usage for enterprise quality computing capability when needed. OpSource Cloud is now in public beta and available for on-line purchase by the hour from www.opsourcecloud.net.
 
OpSource’s customers include Adobe, which uses OpSource to deliver Acrobat.com, and SAP (News - Alert)/Business Objects which uses OpSource for its “Crystal Reports.” Other smaller companies rely on OpSource as well, including Taleo, a ecruitment and performance managementSaaS ( News - Alert) vendor, and Xactly, which specializes in on-demand sales performance software, OpSource says.
 

Gary Kim is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Gary’s articles, please visit his columnist page.