Tier 3 says its new cloud is useable by mere mortals
August 14, 2013
Grazed from GigaOM. Author: Barb Darrow.
Amazon Web Services-like public cloud infrastructure offers great scale and flexibility. What it’s not so strong on is being easy for non IT types to comprehend and use on their own without having to call in a devops or IT professional as intermediary. That’s the market Tier 3 is attacking with the latest release of its public cloud infrastructure.
In startups, devops or sysadmins typically set up (and wind down) compute resources in the cloud, but established companies want their business folks to be able to manage their cloud and oh-by-the-way self-provision the applications they need without bothering techies…
“What’s different between the world of virtualization and cloud is that cloud has to be about enabling automation of IT. Self-service has to happen,” said Jared Wray, CTO and founder of Bellevue, Wash.-based Tier 3. “Startups had someone setting up email and doing firewall configurations etc. — it’s all devops all the time. What companies need is full-blown push-button self service – the ability to get online and automate stuff without writing scripts.”…
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