Top 4 considerations for cloud versus hosting
As VP of Sales and Marketing at CloudOps, I am often explaining the difference between cloud (IaaS) and hosting. My goal is to effectively guide clients to get the maximum business value out of cloud infrastructure services. The greatest business value from cloud is the business agility and efficiency it can enable. I have laid out four considerations in a new post on cloudops.com.
These are topics I would want to understand if I was evaluating cloud, hosting, or managed services.
- Continuously right-size IT
- Confusion – Cloud vs. hosting
- Multi-tenant – Business risk?
- Keep it separated – Humans vs. machine
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9 年Very good article, well explained. There is still lot`s of confusion out there but it is still a hard task to move (make the clients consider or eval the advantages) from in-premise to the cloud
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9 年Thanks Howard. I don't think hosting is dead, but the market it can effectively address is shrinking. Use cases for business critical workloads like IoT, Big Data, VDI, SaaS, E-commerce and mobile applications are all better served by cloud than hosting. With the lines between hosting and cloud are blurred by marketers, I suspect hosting will be around for a while even for those workloads.
Pre-Sales Engineer at NetBrain
9 年Good article. I like the term "cloudwashing." Also, your point that even if the consumer has no expertise with infrastructure management, cloud still makes sense since the consumer can hire a managed services provider. So, to your mind, is hosting dead?
President at Groupe Access / managed IT service provider
9 年Très bon article marc!
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9 年First post via LinkedIn Pulse. Anyone disagree? Already received some feedback from DevOps people to talk about timescale and infrastructure vs services..