It seems that everyone is in the mood to spread a little premature summer cheer this month as CETC32 and Eucalyptus Systems (News - Alert) are the latest two industry leaders to announce a strategic partnership to bring innovation to the marketplace.
Today, Eucalyptus, a provider of Infrastructure as a Service platforms, announced that is has joined hands with China Electronics Technology Group Corporation No. 32 Research Institute (CETC32), one of the largest IT solutions and services providers in China. As part of the agreement, ETC32 will enlist the help of Eucalyptus to develop comprehensive solution offerings for its customers that incorporate cloud computing strategies.
"This strategic partnership will enable customers in China to benefit from a combination of CETC32's local market presence and the industry's leading on-premise cloud platform," said Marten Mickos, CEO of Eucalyptus. "Cloud adoption in China is extremely rapid, and we're honored to play a central role with our esteemed partner in bringing elastic compute resources to companies and public agencies across this vast market. Today's signing ceremony marks the first of many milestones in our partnership with CETC32."
Following the agreement, Eucalyptus' on-premise Infrastructure as a Service platform will serve as the foundation of CETC32's Hua-Cloud, which provides solutions to the public security, health and medical, smart traffic, food security and SME markets. By utilizing Eucalyptus' Infrastructure as a Service technology, CETC32 will create features that can meet local customer requirements under the Hua-Cloud brand.
Eucalyptus, touted by officials as the world's most widely deployed software platform for on-premise Infrastructure as a Service clouds, enables 25,000 cloud starts each year, including those for more than 20 percent of Fortune 100 companies.
"Eucalyptus is a worldwide market leader in cloud computing and we continue to be impressed with the company's ability to deliver open and agile cloud software," said Xiaoming You, president of CETC32. "Eucalyptus embraces cloud computing industry standards which are foundational to our Hua-Cloud offering. Eucalyptus' technology and products received a high rating after our in-depth research and evaluation. CETC32 will add government approved cloud computing security policies on top of existing features in Eucalyptus to deliver a solution specifically tailored to the Chinese market."
Edited by Rich Steeves
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