Cloud Sherpas and GlobalOne Merge in a Meeting of Equals Consolidation in industry takes two routes – mergers and acquisitions. Not surprisingly, they are often tagged together as M&A. While the cloud computing industry has seen a lot of acquisitions in recent times (See: Some Recent Cloud Computing Acquisitions – I and What Will The Taleo Purchase Bring To Oracle? ), mergers have been conspicuous by their absence. Although companies have entered into partnerships, these have been temporary arrangements (See: Recent Cloud Computing Team Ups – III). However, all that is set to change with the recently announced merger of
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Recent Cloud Computing Team Ups – III This is a continuing series on cloud computing companies joining hands. As is evident from the previous articles, cloud companies are increasingly looking to join forces to better leverage their individual competencies. Today’s article features two such team-ups: Atos, EMC and VMware Three big companies – Atos (http://www.atos.net), EMC (www.emc.com) and VMware (www.vmware.com) – have come together under one canopy to create a European cloud infrastructure company called Canopy. According to Atos Chairman and CEO Thierry Breton, Canopy will be a “one stop shop” for cloud computing.” Breton also outlined the reason behind this joint venture
Recent Cloud Computing Team Ups – I “The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime.” – Babe Ruth (1895-1948), American baseball legend. The above quote coming from someone who personalized individual achievement speaks volumes about the importance of teams. Working in teams is one of the defining characteristics of modern business, and this is not restricted to working within organizations only. Even across companies, teams have been able to leverage multiple competencies
