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being drawn from a now- have any idea how the world as archiving, security, backups
global pool; and the of Cloud will look? We can and so on. For example
P
boundaries between derive a picture of the provider Qualys’ vulnerability
ERSP
organisations, their suppliers, side at least – though please management, and
subcontractors and customers note that this is as much of a Symantec/MessageLabs’ ECTIVES CL
are becoming increasingly work in progress as the hosted security services.
blurred. industry itself. Cloud providers
All of these factors conspire to can either deliver business- circle6 Components – elements of
give us a vision of the facing services or foundational desktop software and web
inevitable – that organisations services to be built upon, sites, such as Google Maps, or
OUD COMPUTING
large and small will indeed which may be grouped as Twitter feeds.
have the wherewithal to follows:
source an increasing variety of circle6 Applications – discrete
services from third parties, circle6 Utility – providers of raw services aimed at business
using the Internet as a MIPS or hosting capability, e.g. users, for example
backbone. Less inevitable is Amazon EC2 and Rackspace Salesforce.com CRM, Netsuite
that the vision will be achieved Mosso. Sun’s Network.com ERP, Google Apps and
quickly, or without pain as deserves a mention not least Microsoft Live
both providers and consumers because it has already been
learn the most workable sent back to the drawing As well as ‘cloud providers’
approaches. board. described above, we need to
introduce two other groups
To be clear, we are at the very circle6 Platform – capabilities that into the Cloud ecosystem. First
beginning of a journey, and go beyond hosting, but which we have the constructors.
nobody knows exactly what need to be used as part of an Several hardware and software
route it will take. According application rather than vendors have announced
to our research, few delivering services in their own strategies to, essentially, build
organisations are in any mood right. Akamai’s content or otherwise provide data
to bite the bullet – 9% delivery mechanisms for centre capabilities for Cloud
according to the figure below – example, or Force.com which service providers. So for
and the rest share a degree of provides an integration layer, example we have EMC’s Atmos
cynicism. This level of cynicism workflow tools and the like. initiative, for Cloud storage
is entirely unsurprising given providers; IBM, HP and Dell
the lack of definition that we circle6 Operations – capabilities have announced similar
mentioned before. So, do we aimed at IT operations, such strategies.
Second, we have aggregators
and cloud-sourcers. There is
no doubt a lucrative business
to be had helping
organisations make the most
of the cloud – this business is
open to systems integrators,
outsourcing firms and
consulting firms alike. For
smaller firms as well, cloud
providers will need a channel
to market which should, by
rights, offer Cloud services as
well as more traditional
products.
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