2012年11月14日星期三

HP Wins Contract To Move Dept. of Veterans Affairs to Office 365


Hewlett-Packard Co. Has won a five-year, $36 million contract to transition the U.S. Area of Veterans Affairs (VA) to administrative center 365 on behalf of Government, Microsoft's cloud productivity suite on behalf of public-sector agencies.

Administrative center 365 is Microsoft's cloud-based suite of applications with the aim of includes hosted versions of SharePoint, talk and Lync, with administrative center practiced Plus on hand to the same degree a customer-installed option. Unlike other versions of the artifact, administrative center 365 on behalf of Government, which launched this summer, food data in the sphere of what did you say? Microsoft calls a "segregated the people cloud."

HP yearn for to begin with roll banned administrative center 365 on behalf of Government to 15,000 of the VA's employees, with tactics to eventually swell the rollout to 600,000 employees all through the agency.

"Under the agreement, HP yearn for hint and get by the implementation of administrative center 365 to enhance reliability, security, privacy and compliance to the same degree well to the same degree create biologically diverse calamity recovery," according to Microsoft's proclamation of the contract on Tuesday. "The VA yearn for function administrative center 365 on behalf of Government, which skin texture a separate the people cloud, on behalf of email, shared calendars, instantaneous messaging, and web- and videoconferencing."

In the sphere of a blog stake, Frank Shaw, corporate associate president of Microsoft Corporate Communications, famous with the aim of the VA's adoption of administrative center 365 "is purely the hottest section in the sphere of Microsoft's escalating cloud services story." He pointed to a chain of main administrative center 365 contracts Microsoft has won in the sphere of latest months, plus folks with the Environmental Protection Agency, Toyota Motor Corp., the region of Santa Clara in the sphere of California, and several higher-education institutions such to the same degree Duke University and the University of Washington.

Shaw added with the aim of Microsoft is intent on folding social networking skin texture into its venture offerings, plus administrative center 365. The company announced earlier this month with the aim of the subsequently Dynamics CRM Online revise would integrate social networking skin texture powered by Yammer, which Microsoft acquired in the sphere of July. Microsoft is additionally integrating Yammer into the friendly SharePoint 2013, the company thought by the side of this week's SharePoint consultation in the sphere of Las Vegas.

In the sphere of this vein, administrative center 365 is additionally getting a social networking boost. Microsoft is plus Yammer venture in the sphere of the administrative center 365 venture suite, announced Jared Spataro, senior director in the sphere of Microsoft's administrative center Division, in the sphere of a blog stake Monday.

"[W]e envision a opportunity someplace social is far and wide -- and someplace nation drive in sync using new to the job experiences with the aim of thresher social with collaboration, email, and unified communications," Spataro wrote, adding together with the aim of bundling Yammer into administrative center 365 is Microsoft's at the outset step near with the aim of prediction. He additionally wrote with the aim of Microsoft is consolidating the amount of versions of Yammer from four to two -- the no-cost Yammer necessary and the paid Yammer venture -- and with the aim of it is hurtful the cost on behalf of the venture version from $15 apiece user apiece month to $3 apiece user apiece month.




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