How to consolidate and integrate the public and private cloud

Grazed from CloudComputing News. Author: Lee Fisher.

Most households have many services to keeping things ticking. No two households are the same; they have different priorities, values and structures, and different services suit different households. Water, gas and electricity all come from separate service providers, so if the electricity goes down in a house, it is not left in the cold. Like a household, organisations are unique and something that works for one organisation, may not work for its competitors.

Choices, choices, choices

Like household utility services, cloud services are designed to bring agility, simplicity, efficiency and self-service capabilities to a business. Organisations have freedom of choice in terms of selecting infrastructure and services; but in order to make the right choice it is vital organisations have an understanding of what the business requires and the capabilities of existing infrastructure…

Despite the complexity of business requirements and the variety of choices available, it seems that most companies are making similar choices and are turning to the bigger vendors in the market. According to recent research from Gartner, Amazon Web Services’ market share is five times the size of all the other cloud vendors combined. Further research from Gartner also shows a strong demand is anticipated for all types of cloud services, with the public cloud services market forecast to grow 18.5 per cent in 2013 to total $131 billion…

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