A State of Cloud

Through 2014, cloud service brokerage (CSBs) will generate more than $5 billion in sales - up from less than $50 million this year - making it the fastest-growing area of cloud computing. By 2015, the CSB vendor landscape will have grown from dozens to hundreds of providers - 20% of cloud services intermediated by CSBs

Things to Consider Before Moving Your Business to the Cloud: a blog outlining some issues you might have when moving from your current data centre to the cloud.        

What is a Cloud broker?

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Cloud Broker?is an entity that manages the use, performance and delivery of cloud services and negotiates relationships between?cloud providers?and cloud consumers. As?cloud computing?evolves, the integration of cloud services may be too complex for cloud consumers to manage alone. Cloud broker and its interactions with other parties

In such cases, a cloud consumer may request cloud services from a cloud broker, instead of contacting a?cloud provider?directly," according to?NIST?Cloud Computing Reference Architecture.[1]

Things to Consider Before Moving Your Business to the Cloud: a blog outlining some issues you might have when moving from your current data centre to the cloud.

Okay Marco, all fine. Why is this useful for me?

Today, we see massive growth in several new features among the different providers, which is generally speaking great for those offering these services. But those who aren't familiar with all these new features are quickly lost in the Cloud offerings.

A cloud broker can negotiate better client pricing, integrate multiple cloud services into a single experience, curate best-in-class cloud solutions to present to clients, and offer end-to-end management of various cloud services. Cloud brokers support the cloud service providers by providing them with access to hundreds or even thousands of clients and helping them to acquire new clients.

The administration and support of each cloud are too complex and time-consuming to manage alone. Cloud Brokerage provides effective management of the cloud environment to ensure that your businesses are supported regardless of where it runs. Your portfolio includes SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, containers, pre-integrated suites, disaster recovery, business continuity plans and business applications to meet your requirements for any workload.

The cloud is here to stay, and you need to move fast. From planning, acquisition and deployment of cloud services to maintenance and optimization, you will need a partner that can help you out, and Cloud Broker is just that partner.

Do you want to move faster and take your business places without having to worry about the hassles of cloud computing? In other words, do you want your IT to be your business advantage? If yes, then Cloud Broker could provide you with all the benefits outlined above.

Cloud Broker could help your Company by getting better at using the technology budgets.

Is a Cloud Broker similar to FinOps?

The definition of FinOps is focused initially on allocating the financial aspects of Operations. The focus is firmly on Cloud spending and infrastructure optimization. The next phase of FinOps is merely not only on the spending part. It's also focused on the earning part of Cloud Computing, In the next episode of this newsletter. We will go deeper into the FinOps aspect.

If you have any questions or remarks, don't hesitate to ask them.