The Service Provider of Tomorrow, Part 1
Since the start of the Internet era, enterprise data centers and IT service providers have forged an uneasy co-existence. For the most part, decision-making by IT managers has been binary … either I’m...
View ArticleThe Service Provider of Tomorrow, Part 3: SaaS and Cloud Economics
The migration of IT infrastructure to the Cloud, which began in the late 1990s with the adoption of managed hosting services, is being driven by Cloud Economics. Businesses want to consume IT as a...
View ArticleIs PaaS Really Going To Replace SaaS? Even For Security?
This week I have been following the Structure Conference which the GigaOm team has been nice enough to stream out on the net. One of the panels was what does the future of cloud computing look like....
View ArticleThe Service Provider of Tomorrow, Part 4: SLA Segmentation
Will service provider SLAs change in a cloud world? As customers of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) providers increasingly pay for use of virtual instances rather...
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