Two ways to ramp up your cloud computing revenue
April 2, 2015
Grazed from TechTarget. Author: Jason Bystrak.
You don’t have to look too hard to find overwhelming evidence that cloud computing adoption is growing at a fast rate. IDC estimates the public cloud market, which reached nearly $46 billion in 2013, will continue growing at 23% CAGR through 2018. On the private cloud side, IDC estimates that worldwide spending on hosted private cloud services will surpass $24 billion by 2016.
For some value-added resellers (VARs), these statistics generate little more than an eye roll. After all, how much excitement can selling hosted Exchange subscriptions for $6 per mailbox with razor-thin margins generate, compared with the $10,000 on-premises Exchange server sales of the not-so-distant past?…
Although Capex investments will continue to dwindle, single-digit profit margins don’t have to be the new norm. However, you will have to find new ways to add value to your customers’ businesses to accelerate cloud computing revenue. Here are two ideas for new services that can help you boost the bottom line…
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