Zoho unites with VMWare

All we know Zoho, as a provider of SaaS applications. But  it appears that they also supply all these services as an in-house solution for large enterprises (more than 10000 users). I.e. Zoho Suite can be installed in the corporate data center behind the firewall. Besides the hight security level this solution enables enterprise IT easily integrate Zoho Apps with other business applications. But the price tag is too high. And even not because of Zoho Suite costs, but because an enterprise needs to create a copy of Zoho cloud infrastructure (at least one server per one service).

And of course, in such cases virtualization helps. All the more, VMWare, the leading virtualization vendor, now promotes its "private cloud" idea. Opposed to Amazon's new "virtual private cloud", it is located in the private data-center, not in the internet server farm.

So, together with VMWare, Zoho created out-of-the-box configuration on vSphere platform, that enables to save money on hadrware: company will only need as many servers as needed for given number of users, but not as many, as Zoho has.

It's interesting that recently VMWare enticed several technical leaders from Google and now is creating the Google App Engine rival. And Zoho always used to be closer to Google, but now partnered with its competitor.

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