Microsoft & HP Announce $250 Million Cloud Computing Venture [Microsoft & HP Partner Up in Cloud Computing Business]

Microsoft and HP are apparently ready to work together for the greater good of the consumers. The two companies have announced a joint venture related to cloud computing. In fact they are ready to put $250 million where their mouth is so we can’t but be curious to see what this endeavor will bring us.

According to the press release, the HP and Microsoft will deliver new solutions that will:

• be built on a next-generation infrastructure-to-application model
• advance cloud computing by speeding application implementation
• eliminate complexities of IT management and automate existing manual processes to lower the overall costs

In other words Microsoft might be further preparing for the near future, a time that could be significantly dominated by cloud computing. We already know that Chrome OS, Google’s first computer operating system is coming out later this year and it will heavily rely on cloud computing. Microsoft can’t afford to lose any ground to this new computing concept and by getting a more than decent ally like HP it could play a major role in cloud computing.

Microsoft’s cloud platform, Azure, might be merged very well with HP hardware in order to deliver new computing solutions. The move might not affect regular users in any way for now as it’s mainly destined to hit businesses of all sizes that need to have cloud computing solutions at hand at all times.

Steve Ballmer, Microsoft’s CEO had this to say about the newly formed partnership:

This agreement, which spans hardware, software and services, will enable business customers to optimize performance with push-button simplicity at the lowest-possible total cost of ownership. Our extended partnership will transform the way large enterprises deliver services to their customers, and help smaller organizations adopt IT to grow their businesses. Microsoft and HP are betting on each other so our customers don’t have to gamble on IT.

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