Our Cloud Best Practices Network also caters for suppliers, in particular
traditional web hosting firms and telcos who want to transform to a full
Cloud provider: Our Cloud MSP program.
Cloud MSP – Best practices
Cloud Computing is driving a huge new demand for outsourced services, and our
program helps traditional web hosting companies and telcos transform to
become highly competitive Cloud solution providers, expanding their product
portfolio and sales into a broader estate of managed IT services.
Listing AT&T; and Savvis as the Magic Quadrant leaders, the Gartner report
‘Cloud Infrastructure as a Service and Web Hosting‘ provides a framework
for a product strategy for Cloud service providers. It describes how the
traditional web hosting and Cloud markets will converge over the next five
years, and that this will provide a platform for expanding a full MSP
solutio... (more)
We ran our first webinar last week, ‘Open Government Canada’, introducing
both Open Government and Cloud Computing, and how they can be combined into a
‘G-Cloud Open Data’ scenario.
You can access the webinar and presenter slide decks here.
Open Data Ventures
I’ve now started planning our second event, with the first initial idea
being ‘Building A City in the Clouds‘ – A focus on the municipal level
of government, headlined by a review of the Roadmap for the Digital City
(65-page PDF) report by New York.
So the session will focus on the how and why of repeating such a strategy in ... (more)
A key component of our Telco Cloud Services consulting engagement is a
solution for building an ‘iCloud for the Enterprise’ product range.
Real-world Cloud services
What iCloud highlights is that while technologists think of Cloud Computing
in terms of the underlying virtualization and other technical factors, what
end users identify with is the manner in which “the Cloud” protects them
from this level of detail and
One of the key realities of IT that the Cloud will address is that while
billions and billions of dollars have been spent on various enterprise
applications, the actu... (more)
The key explosive factor for the Cloud computing market will be when it
evolves from simple hosting services for web applications, to catering for
full outsourcing scenarios.
This is what the outsourcing industry have started referring to as
‘BPaaS’ – Business Process as a Service, adding a fourth layer in
addition to IaaS, PaaS and SaaS.
Described in this article, and this one, experts from organizations like
Tata, Infosys, IBM and Dell Perot, key sectors like Healthcare and financial
services will seek out entire vertical end-to-end solutions from Cloud
providers. They’ll wan... (more)
Although Cloud Computing represents a shift from fixed cost, on-premise
software model to a utility, online pricing alternative, it’s also the
nature of software engineering itself and how that is delivered that is
changing, and it’s this combination that offers the biggest value to IT
consumers.
The Cloud Application Platform
Central to this strategy is the concept of the Cloud Application Platform,
like the VMware offering among others.
‘DevOps’ represents the merging of the two worlds, enabling a more agile,
modular approach to building software solutions for clients.
For ex... (more)
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