PH data center inks pact with Microsoft for cloud services

Publicly listed IP Converge Data Center has signed a Services Provider License Agreement (SPLA) with Microsoft Philippines to offer cloud solutions and provide technology and services to its customers. The SPLA is part of Microsoft’s Volume Licensing program for organizations, which provides companies with the capability to offer software and services such as Web hosting, hosted applications, messaging, collaboration, and platform infrastructure to its end-customers. Under the deal, IP-Converge will roll out Microsoft solutions such as hosted virtual machines powered by Windows Server, managed e-mail services powered by Microsoft Exchange Server, database hosting powered by SQL Server, Microsoft Dynamics, Lync, SharePoint, as well as IT Systems Management through System Center. With the agreement, IP-Converge can deliver customized services with users paying only for the products that they use. Customers can also test and evaluate products before purchase, and even give them the liberty to run the cloud operations from IP-Converge’s data center facilities. These factors offer customers the option to avoid making additional investments and save the trouble of deploying the solutions on their own. — Newsbytes.ph