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Current Filter: Cloud>>>>>Opinion> Priming your cloud for success Editorial Type: Opinion Date: 05-2015 Views: 2772 Key Topics: Cloud Hybrid cloud Management Strategy CRM IaaS Key Companies: Telstra Key Products: Key Industries: | |||
| According to Martin Bishop, head of Network, Applications & Services, Telstra Global Enterprise & Services, with consumers in the UK more in control of their purchasing power than ever before, a flexible and scalable cloud infrastructure has become increasingly critical to an organisations' success or failure In an effort to capitalise on the benefits of cloud computing, early adopters turned to multiple cloud vendors to satisfy their various infrastructure needs. For instance, you may have been working with a customer relationship manager (CRM) specialist for hosting your customer insights, and a private cloud expert for financial data. This approach delivered initial gains as IT leaders found their way in the cloud, but it is not conducive to long-term success. Working with a variety of vendors can create complex environments that are hard to control, manage and integrate, while it can also lead to organisational silos, preventing collaboration and the easy transfer of data, limiting performance and the services delivered. Encouragingly, recent Telstra research, which surveyed 675 IT decision makers from across the globe around the cloud services being used by their organisation, suggests businesses are increasingly realising this, with three-quarters of global businesses wanting to procure services from a single provider, compared to using three concurrently. With cloud fast becoming a critical component of IT environments the world over, what steps can today's businesses take to help ensure you build a platform that is designed for success today and in the years to come, without compromising on individual needs?
OUTSOURCE CLOUD MANAGEMENT What's more, the benefits of IaaS - including improved security and efficiency, reduced costs, and optimised insights - closely align with IT departments' modern IT objectives. Although most businesses have a clear understanding of IaaS' advantages, research has revealed that over half are yet to implement it due to concerns around relinquishing control of IT environments. As such, vendors in this space should work to alleviate and overcome such concerns across the business, while guiding you through any difficulties and reducing the impact of the initial implementation.
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