Glaxo SmithKline signs a 100,000 seat deal for Microsoft Online

March 17th, 2009 | No Comments | Tags: ,   Share  | Glaxo SmithKline signs a 100,000 seat deal for Microsoft Online

When a poster child customer of perhaps the most regulated industry in the world signs up for a 100,000 seat license of Cloud productivity apps, you know the product is ready for primetime.

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9128760

It seems like these days, we dont hear the questions “Is Cloud Good for me” as regularly as we used to hear even as late as a few months back. Instead the concerns are centered around the following topics :

1. Scalability
2. Availability
3. Privacy
4. Security
5. Compliance
6. TCO

One can draw the conclusion that the discussions are now maturing to the next level of the decision making. Having such a great brand name adopt Cloud based collaboration tools at such a massive scale underlines the fact that this paradigm is fast growing into a viable Enterprise option.