IBM与SAP将联手打造企业云计算

2014-10-23 15:23:36来源：可可英语

　　IBM and SAP plan to announce on Tuesday that they will partner to offer cloud computing services to companies.

　　IBM和SAP近日宣布，双方将合作，携手向企业提供云计算服务。

　　Specifically, IBM IBM 0.15% will provide cloud infrastructure services to SAP, which will run its business applications—collectively dubbed the HANA Enterprise Cloud—on top of them.

　　其中，IBM将向SAP提供云基础架构服务，而SAP则将使用IBM的基础架构运行HANA企业云应用。

　　For IBM, it’s the second megawatt deal of the year with a technology industry peer as it continues to stake ground through large cloud computing partnerships. In July, it announced it would partner with AppleAAPL -1.06% to sell phones and tablets (and related applications and services) to business customers.

　　对于IBM来说，这也是它今年第二次与科技行业的重量级企业在云计算领域进行合作。今年7月，IBM宣布将与苹果公司(Apple)合作，向企业客户销售手机和平板电脑(以及相关应用与服务)。

　　For SAP, it’s an acceleration of an existing strategy to offer its applications worldwide—and a small concession that the data center buildout it recently completed wasn’t sufficient to meet its larger goal.

　　对于SAP来说，与IBM的结盟有利于助推其现有应用的全球销售。同时也等于承认了它最近才建设完成的数据中心还不足以满足公司的宏伟蓝图。

　　“SAP has really morphed as a company to a cloud application and platform company,” says Kevin Ichhpurani, SAP’s head of business development. “Our goal is to be the cloud company powered by HANA.”

　　SAP的商务拓展负责人凯文??伊克普拉尼指出：“SAP已经确实转变成一家云应用和云平台公司。我们的目标是成为一家以HANA驱动的云公司。”

　　Walldorf, Germany-based SAP, the largest software company in Europe, sees a partnership with its American counterpart as a way to outrun rivals like Oracle ORCL 0.60% , which has chosen to build its own network of data centers, in the race to get businesses to adopt cloud applications. For SAP, that includes SuccessFactors (for human capital management), Ariba (for procurement), and soon, Concur (for travel and expenses). There are currently about 4,000 HANA customers, Ichhpurani says, and eleven times as many companies running SAP’s business software suite.

　　SAP公司总部位于德国的瓦尔多夫，它是欧洲最大的软件公司，与IBM的合作也是它领先甲骨文(Oracle)等竞争对手的一种方式。相比之下，甲骨文公司为了吸引企业选择自家的云应用而自行建设了一个数据中心网络。目前SAP已经收购了SuccessFactors(人力资本管理应用)、Ariba(采购应用)，对Concur(差旅及报销管理应用)的收购很快也将完成。伊克普拉尼指出，HANA企业云现在已经拥有大约4000名客户，而运行SAP企业软件套装的公司大约有11倍之多。

　　“We needed to really build global scale instantaneously,” Ichhpurani says. “IBM has announced that they’ll get to 40 data centers in the year. That’s really attractive to us.”

　　伊克普拉尼表示：“我们需要快速建立起全球级的规模，IBM宣布他们的数据中心今年将达到40个，这对我们非常有吸引力。”

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