Cloud computing offers near-immediate value for clients, but its full potential will be realized as a platform for new, innovative solutions. After helping their clients adopt cloud models appropriately, providers should help them establish cloud services as a basis for next-generation solutions.

1. Transform your Business – Get Cloud Ready
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2. Cloud computing offers near-immediate value for clients, but its full potential will be realized as a
platform for new, innovative solutions. After helping their clients adopt cloud models appropriately,
providers should help them establish cloud services as a basis for next-generation solutions.
Source: Gartner Inc., Cloud Services Will Establish the Foundation for Next-Generation Solutions, G00248612, 12 December 2013.
Recommendations
■ Build and deliver solutions that empower end users to find and
implement technology using self-service and on-demand models.
■ Build solutions that innovate in both technology and business
processes to fully unleash the potential of cloud-based solutions.
■ Take a "cloud first" philosophy for solution delivery, leveraging
cloud computing's strengths of standardization, scale, distribution
and cost-efficiency to deliver new solutions using the cloud as a
foundation.
Impacts
■ The self-service and on-demand style of cloud computing changes
the nature of the solutions IT services providers must deliver to their
customers.
■ Cloud services require new operating models to be fully effective,
creating an opportunity for IT services providers to help modernize
their clients' business processes.
■ The emergence of cloud services as a key market force and
capable foundational technology enables IT services providers to
develop and deliver innovative, next-generation solutions for clients.

3. Cloud is transforming the way IT is consumed and delivered across organizations. The main driver for
this new emerging trends are the key benefits of scalability, affordability and ease of adoption.
Cloud adoption has not only enabled IT scalability, but it has
enhanced execution of business transformation capabilities.
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Striking a balance with the
Hybrid cloud
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Cloud First approach
Cloud and security
Public and private clouds are a reality
today and organizations need to
consider solutions that can integrate
these clouds and make use of them for
their business advantage. As the
technology will keep evolving in this
area, hybrid cloud adoption will
continue to grow.
First time adopters need the right
guidance and complete support when it
comes to the move to the cloud. The
clear benefit of the hybrid cloud
architecture lies in its flexibility and
inherent ability to be structured exactly
the way clients want it. This makes it
easier for enterprises to make the first
move towards the cloud.
Hybrid cloud is basically an
amalgamation of private and public
cloud and offers the benefits of multiple
deployment models. The Cloud gives
organizations the flexibility to put their
workloads and data where it makes
most sense, whilst addressing data
security, governance, compliance and
budgetary challenges.

4. Providing a Cloud Readiness Assessment
Moving to the cloud is an intensive process involving multiple steps in the area of design and implementation. The objective is to achieve this
transformation with minimal or no business downtime - resulting in an extremely seamless experience.
Zensar offers a Cloud Readiness Assessment that is an ideal next step for enterprises to take advantage of in their journey to the cloud to
help evaluate, plan and build a successful cloud strategy.
To view the complete thought paper that carries the stories of transition to cloud,
click on the link : Get Cloud Ready
For more details or to contact Zensar’s Cloud Team, please email us at
immarcom@zensar.com
Cloud deployment is playing a pivotal role in the acceleration of on time and anywhere-anytime
access which is a reality we need to integrate in any customer led or audience led initiative.
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