In what is clearly the biggest news story of the week it's reported today that Orange Business Systems, the network service provider and mobile operator, is to provide the billing know-how for the 'pay as you go' cloud offering from the increasingly borg'd industry triumvirate of Cisco, EMC and VMware.
The Flexible 4 Business Alliance expands on the Virtual Computing Environment (VCE) coalition that Cisco, EMC and VMware established early last year and allows them to deliver complete Cloud Solutions.
EMC has clearly learned some valuable lessons from the closure of it's Atmos Cloud service in July this year:
1) If you make hardware that allows people to build Clouds, stick to the knitting.
2) Work with people you trust to deliver integrated offering - it's an open secret EMC & Cisco are engaged.
3) You need specialist expertise to collect the money - Like Amazon, Orange has extremely efficient microbilling capability
I predict this will be a great success amongst Global organisations and governments who want their own private cloud infrastructures, and for service providers looking for a one stop shop for the delivery of what will become core infrastructure.
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