Multi-supplier cloud environments bad for business agility

March 9, 2015 Off By David

Grazed from ComputerWeekly. Author: Caroline Donnelly.

Research from IT services provider Telstra claims deploying cloud services from three or more suppliers can damage a company’s business agility. The Australian IT services company commissioned research house Vanson Bourne to interview 675 IT decision makers working for private sector firms with 250 or more employees operating in the US, UK, Hong Kong and Australia.

The UK portion of the survey garnered 200 responses, with two-thirds of respondents stating a preference for procuring cloud services from a single supplier for ease of management. Most failed to do so, however, because of the challenging of finding a single provider who does everything they need in the cloud…

As a result, their companies’ day-to-day operations depend on the smooth-running of complicated IT environments featuring an average of three cloud providers. “We are living in a buyers’ market and our research suggests that, in an effort to satisfy diverse customer expectations, many UK businesses initially turn to multiple cloud suppliers to meet their various infrastructure needs,” said Martin Bishop, head of network, applications and services at Telstra Global Enterprise and Services…

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