Cloud Sourcing
Frances Karamouzis and David Mitchell Smith
During the next few years, market dynamics will determine whether cloud sourcing will be the demise of traditional outsourcing, if it will lead to the convergence of services and products currently marketed “as a service,” or if it will result in next-generation outsourcing.
Clients now have more choice, that choice is to turn away from internal IT and look at external vendors that can do all of those services at once
Get “SLAs with teeth” those that have business implications
How Cloud Brokers Will Differentiate
Gartner VP Tiffani Bova discusses how VARs, MSPs and technology consultants can become cloud brokers working within cloud aggregator services.
How many of you in the audience feel that you have being delivering Cloud for years?
How many of you today can do usage based billing?
It isn’t about the PC it’s about the Personal Cloud
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Besol named ‘Cool Vendor’ in
Cloud Services Brokerage
Besol, the leading provider of next generation multi-cloud management platforms for private and public clouds, today announced that the world’s leading IT analyst firm, Gartner Inc., has selected the company as a Cool Vendor in Gartner’s “Cool Vendors in Cloud Services Brokerage Enablers, 2012” report published on 12 April 2012 by Tiffani Bova, Daryl C. Plummer, et al.
According to the Gartner report Key Findings, “The cloud services brokerage (CSB) is emerging, and first-mover advantage will be key to gaining awareness and share. CSBs are challenged to continuously build or buy the capabilities required to compete in the three CSB roles: aggregation, integration and customization”
“We in Besol believe being chosen as Gartner Cool Vendor is as a testament to the dedication, hard work and focus on innovation of our team” said Javier Perez-Griffo, Co-Founder and CEO of Besol. “The Tapp platform from Besol allows users to manage their cloud infrastructures independently of their cloud provider, but more importantly, enterprises can manage both their public and private clouds from a centralized point.”
Perez-Griffo continues “Cloud services are no longer restrained to large enterprises or IT-savvy organizations. Through our platform, SMBs of all kinds are now able to ‘tapp into’ the cloud and deploy and manage their infrastructures seamlessly, in a completely new user-friendly experience.”
Hyper-hybrid Clouds
Chris Weitz – Deloitte
Today, hyper-hybrid clouds are an advanced form of cloud services in the early stages of adoption, but the approach is rapidly becoming the norm for cloud services architecture.
A hybrid cloud is a cloud that works across different environments where you have services from vendor clouds working directly with clouds inside of an organization, thus forming a hybrid cloud.
Hyper-hybrid clouds are the multiplication of numerous hybrid clouds working together to serve an organization. The hype curve for cloud computing is at an all-time high, for pretty good reasons. Cloud computing can help increase agility, decrease costs and improve service delivery capabilities — and it can happen fast.
Tiffani Bova – has coined the term “born in the cloud”, For me this is where new capabilities are forming on the cloud platform so that a different approach is required to manage the increased complexity of hyper-hybrid clouds.
Cloud Service Brokers add value by managing one or more cloud service on behalf of the service’s recipients. Gartner says that cloud service brokers represent the single largest revenue growth opportunity in cloud computing through 2015, emphasizing that without cloud brokerage the cloud industry cannot survive.
I say that clients will need to design and implement Cloud Service Management practices [CloudSM] to govern the relationship with their cloud service brokers and external providers.
Services configured from Hyper-Hybrid clouds will set new delivery challenges for Next Generation Service Management CloudSM to overcome.
The guidance provided by the ITIL 2011 Edition and COBIT5 framework does not help define CloudSM practices required to address the dislocation of company compute assets which previously were on-premise and have now become “Place Less” being delivered from anywhere in the Hyper-hybrid Cloud.
So what criteria do you apply in sourcing your Cloud Service Provider?
Do you need to engage a Cloud Service Broker?
Should you jump to Hyper-Hybrid clouds directly or be more risk averse?
I can only think of the classic consultant response “it depends”
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