Monday, October 8, 2012

Taiwan ODMs seek cooperation with software providers to offer cloud computing solutions


Aaron Lee, Taipei; Adam Hwang, DIGITIMES [Tuesday 2 October 2012]

With more and more companies outsourcing data center operations to cloud computing service providers, Taiwan-based hardware ODMs have been seeking cooperation with cloud computing business software developers for hardware/software integration to offer turnkey solutions, according to industry sources in Taiwan.

An increasing number of enterprises have stopped running their own servers and storage equipment and rented storage capacity from cloud computing service providers to save maintenance cost, the sources pointed out. As a result, demand for cloud computing services will be growing fast, with Hewlett-Packard (HP), Dell and IBM to possibly provide such rental services in the future, the sources indicated.

Taiwan-based Quanta Computer, in an attempt to tap the market for hardware/software integration, has begun cooperating with SAP by having hardware equipment tested by SAP, the sources pointed out. However, Quanta declined to comment on the sources' claims.

Quanta chairman Barry Lam has recently remarked that the company will cooperate with software development companies to offer total cloud computing solutions.

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