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Services
vendors need to prepare for cloud computing
ConvergenceAsia staff
19/10/2009
According to Ovum, the
global analyst and consulting company, IT services providers, particularly
those offering systems integration (SI) services, need to adopt new
strategies and approaches to ensure that the trend toward cloud computing
services does not negatively impact their business.
Although widespread adoption of cloud computing is slow to materialise,
services vendors should take steps now to ensure that they can take
advantage of any revenue-generating opportunities that the cloud computing
services market will provide in the future. John Madden, Ovum Research
Director says, “These steps include becoming an innovator in the development
of cloud computing services, and creating and supporting cloud services
ecosystems among various IT vendors”.
“In truth, services providers have no choice but to take such steps to keep
up with customer interest and, more importantly, to blunt the technology’s
potential negative impact,” says Madden, based in Boston. “Global systems
integration firms in particular are worried that cloud services could
irrevocably alter the SI business as we know it.”
Madden says the traditional SI model of tying together disparate IT systems
is not going away any time soon due to cloud services, as the market for
such services is still too young. “However, some customers that leverage
cloud services in theory will no longer need an SI for complex,
time-consuming and costly integration of their internal IT systems”, Madden
adds.
“Cloud services also could open up new opportunities for services providers
to package SI services with consulting and outsourcing, as customers look
for guidance and third-party expertise in the delivery of cloud services.” |
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