‘Cloud of Clouds’ delivers clear control and choice

Grazed from BelfastTelegraph. Author: Colin Hamill.

Over the past couple of years, the cloud market has matured. On-demand applications and services have been adopted by businesses, and that rate of adoption is set to grow exponentially over the next few years. Companies in Northern Ireland have developed a new understanding of what the cloud is, in terms of how it can fit with their business and objectives, as well as the benefits it can bring – from cost savings and the ability to scale at speed as required, through to access to the latest applications, without the capital outlay for hardware and software, and ongoing management.

But while the concept of the cloud is simple, experience teaches us that nothing in life – especially in IT – is ever that simple. A tangle of different cloud services can tie up a business’s network resources, frustrate employees and pose potential risks. A better answer is to wrap all your multiple clouds into one single cloud that you can manage and maximise. It’s an approach that BT calls the ‘Cloud of Clouds’…

The perfect cloud environment is one that allows easy and secure consumption of internal services and external solutions…

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