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Companies unwrap cloud-based offerings, plans, and partnerships to bring more flexibility to customers
IBM has had a busy week, cloud computing-wise, but it's not the only company making such waves. Savvis is embarking on Thursday on an ambitious plan to offer enterprise customers a complete virtualized datacenter. Amazon.com, meanwhile, joined up with Big Blue and DataSynapse in separate partnerships.
The common thread among all the announcements is the aim of providing customers with more flexibility in managing infrastructure resources that reside in the cloud.
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Savvis CTO Bryan Doerr explains his company's ultimate goal: "The grand vision is that we'll have a cloud that gives our clients the ability to do entire datacenter outsourcing that applies all the best practices of security, storage, and networking."
Toward that end, the company on Thursday took a first step by...