Steady Growth For The Connectria Cloud

Grazed from IT Jungle.  Author: Dan Burger.

Owning and managing IBM midrange hardware is moving from on-premise IT departmental responsibility to service providers. This is not a question. It is happening. The furniture movers have arrived. But to what extent remains mostly unknown. Companies are picking and choosing their managed service providers and, if that works out, they are adding pieces of infrastructure and applications to the cloud. They may be saving money and they may be outsourcing skills that are in short supply.

It’s always been true that the decision to move hardware, infrastructure, and applications off site requires a load of trust. For IBM i shops, remote systems management has been a part of the landscape for years. You can throw a smartphone in any direction at a technical conference like COMMON and hit at least one entrepreneurial, work-at-home, systems guru tending to one or a handful of organizations with on-site hardware but no one to run it. The IBM i reseller channel is also a good place to look for companies large and small that have a healthy and growing business built around managed services, although some prefer the term hosted services to describe what they do…

Systems And Experts In The Cloud

Connectria is a company that has done well in the managed services business for years and it has developed the type of vendor-customer relationships that evolve into cloud computing opportunities. That vendor-customer relationship is largely built on building expertise and sharing it. We keep hearing that organizations find it increasingly difficult to acquire and cultivate a skilled IBM i workforce. One conclusion is that companies will rent their experts…

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