HAINAN, China, Oct. 31, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, IBM
(NYSE: IBM) and Tencent
Cloud signed a business cooperation memorandum to collaborate
on providing public cloud with Software-as-a-Service solutions
for industries. Both parties agreed to focus on emerging small and
medium enterprises in the smarter cities and smarter healthcare
industries as well as other fields. This will enable these
industries to utilize mobile, cloud computing and big data tools to
transform internal processes and operations, thus achieving cloud
transformation in the era of mobility. As part of this
milestone collaboration, Tencent Cloud and IBM will jointly
promote industry innovation and gain from each company's resources
and global capacity to benefit enterprise customers.
Tencent Holdings Limited
("Tencent", SEHK: 00700) is a leading
provider of comprehensive Internet services in China. Tencent Cloud is a strategic
platform of Tencent with profound
acumen in cloud computing based on its powerful infrastructure as
well as many years' experience in the massive Internet services
business. Tencent cloud provides
enterprises and developers access to a complete cloud solution
with cloud service, cloud data and cloud operations.
Cloud is at the core of many industry transformations, with
value migrating from broad cloud-based applications to
industry-specific solutions. IDC predicts a tenfold increase in the
number of cloud apps over the next four years. Two-thirds of these
new apps will have an industry-specific or role-specific focus --
with the majority of the growth driven by developers in cloud
application ecosystems.1
At Tencent's 2014 Annual Global Partner Conference, Mr. Taosang
Tong, President of Social Network Group, Senior Executive Vice
President of Tencent, Inc, said,
"Tencent has a stable and reliable
cloud computing platform, while IBM has abundant industry expertise
aimed at the enterprise. We will work together to bring 'Internet
mode' to more enterprise-level clients through cloud
computing."
Tencent Cloud and IBM identified
the priority industries of small and medium hyper-growth
enterprises in smarter healthcare and smarter cities for their
collaboration, and will together deliver the essential elements for
businesses to get up and running on cloud, including:
- Industry consulting, cloud migration, integration and technical
support services.
- Industry-specific and business process SaaS solutions,
including solutions for customer care, digital marketing,
enterprise asset management and smart office automation.
- Management and operation for public cloud and dedicated cloud
from Tencent.
"The industry dimension makes this especially appealing for
businesses," said Nancy Thomas,
Managing Partner with IBM's Business Consulting Services in
China. "IBM and Tencent's shared
vision is not only to bring the scale and cost benefits of cloud
computing to enterprises in China,
but to add differentiating value by serving the particular needs of
specific industries. That is the key to unlocking the
transformative power of cloud computing."
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1 IDC Predictions 2014: Battle for Dominance -
and Survival - on the 3rd Platform, December
2013, IDC #244606.
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