Cloud Providers Tapping Into Vertical Markets

Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: Chris Talbot.

For cloud services providers, there’s a horizontal approach to service development that most providers take, but there’s also a strong business case to be made for vertical services. Vertical markets present a strong growth opportunity for cloud providers, and one of those verticals that has been growing quickly is health care.

We’ve covered the healthcare vertical frequently and recently, and cloud services providers are clearly finding success in building and targeting apps at a variety of healthcare organizations and businesses. Take Peak 10 as the latest example of a cloud provider who has had success in the healthcare vertical. Peak 10 recently announced it had scored a new multiyear cloud services contract with Premier, a healthcare alliance consisting of about 2,800 community hospitals and 95,000 alternate sites. That’s a big win for the cloud services provider…

Under the terms of the contract, Peak 10 will provide Premier and its members with pre-negotiated rates related to its Recovery Cloud offering. Peak 10’s Recovery Cloud provides customers with cloud-based disaster recovery—a business and IT issue affecting everyone, of course. But when it comes to health care, loss of data and downtime can result in lost lives…

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