Accenture’s “cloud broker” bid
April 29, 2013
Grazed from InformationAge. Author: Pete Swabey.
At first, it seemed as though cloud computing might pose an existential threat to the IT outsourcing industry. If customers can rent IT capabilities over the Internet without setting up their own infrastructure, why would they need outsourced IT skills?
In truth, there is a lot of extra work associated with using cloud computing. In 2009, Gartner analyst Darryl Plummer spotted the need for a so- called “cloud broker”, a function – internal or external – that makes it easier for a business to adopt public cloud services by certifying approved cloud providers, taking care of integration, managing user identity across services, and more besides…
This is a role that IT services providers are understandably keen to fill. Indian IT outsourcer Infosys was one of the first to market with its Cloud Ecosystem Hub service, which it claims can “enable organisations to rapidly adopt, manage and govern a hybrid cloud environment”. In the last nine months, meanwhile, outsourcing and consultancy giant Accenture has been developing its own cloud brokerage platform, which it unveiled publicly in April 2013…
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