Partner vs Build: The Enterprise Cloud Services Dilemma

Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: Justin Crotty.

Cloud computing is more than just a services model. It’s changing expectations of what IT can do for midmarket and enterprise businesses. Already IT buyers are rapidly moving their cloud utilization from experimentation and rudimentary technologies, to mission-critical applications and workloads. Within the next few years, enterprises are expected to seek even more complex cloud-based automation and business productivity from their cloud providers.

Historically, systems integrators have done well for themselves in designing IT systems and infrastructures, selling and installing the underlying products, and providing ongoing professional support. The legacy IT infrastructure powering the global economy was built by systems integrators one server, one SANs appliance and one switch at a time…

New Inflection Point

Now, as the next wave of cloud computing and ITO come washing over the IT shoreline, systems integrators are faced with how they will evolve to match these new demands, dynamics and expectations.

For some, the choice is nothing more than what they’ve always done; the sale and support of infrastructure components. Others are entering the cloud services arena through a traditional approach, investing heavily in developing the infrastructure, applications and expertise capacity to deliver common and complex cloud and IT services. Still, others are choosing to forego infrastructure development and partner with infrastructure and application specialists that have the expertise and capacity to deliver IT services…

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