Cloud computing is now a viable option for businesses seeking to outsource part or all of their IT operations. But in this new era — where the power of the Internet is harnessed for IT tasks — outsourcing to the cloud can be a strategic maneuver, not just a cost-cutting measure.
"How CenturyLink is Setting the standard for the Next Generation of Cloud Ser...Lillian Hiscox
The document discusses how CenturyLink is positioning itself for the next generation of cloud services through its acquisition and integration strategy and its flexible CenturyLink cloud platform. Key points:
- CenturyLink has made strategic acquisitions including Savvis, AppFog, Tier 3, DataGardens, and Cognilytics to build its cloud portfolio. It has integrated the services and adopted a DevOps approach.
- The CenturyLink cloud platform supports infrastructure provisioning, application management, workload orchestration through automated blueprints, vertical and horizontal auto-scaling, and developer-friendly capabilities.
- The platform is designed to meet the evolving needs of enterprises by providing integration, functionality, visibility and control across multiple
- CIOs are facing mounting pressure to do more with less as IT spending decreases and more technology spending occurs outside the IT department.
- Unified Computing combines outsourcing managed services with cloud computing to provide IT departments agility and lower costs while allowing them to become strategic enablers of the business.
- This approach provides all the benefits of cloud infrastructure alongside application skills and delivery from a large systems integrator. Companies like UEFA have adopted this model to dynamically scale their systems and lower costs.
Although cloud is widely recognized as a technology
game changer, its potential for driving business innovation remains virtually untapped.
Indeed, cloud has the power to fundamentally shift competitive landscapes by providing a
new platform for creating and delivering business value. To take advantage of cloud’s
potential to transform internal operations, customer relationships and industry value
chains, organizations need to determine how best to employ cloud-enabled business
models that promote sustainable competitive advantage.
VMware Business Agility and the True Economics of Cloud ComputingVMware
New groundbreaking global survey findings demonstrate
the true value of cloud computing to the business. While it is understood in the industry that cloud computing provides clear cost benefits, CIOs are having difficulty getting a true fix on the business value that cloud might offer beyond cost reduction. These survey results reveal a direct link between cloud computing and business agility—how business outcomes are associated with agility, the role of IT for agile companies and the importance of cloud computing to business leaders.
This document discusses how IT organizations are evolving from reactive operations models focused on maintaining existing systems, to more proactive models that drive business goals through strategic technology investments. It describes a three phase process where virtualization initially provides server consolidation benefits, then automation and management efficiencies, and finally a fully virtualized, software-defined data center enabling an IT-as-a-service model. This allows IT to shift resources from operations to new initiatives that generate revenue and growth for the business. The evolution transforms the CIO's role from functional manager to business strategist focused on innovation.
Cognizanti Journal: XaaS, Code Halos, SMAC and the Future of WorkCognizant
This issue of Cognizanti Journal focuses on successfully transitioning to the Future of Work. Article topics include "everything as a service," the emerging world of Code Halos, anytime/anyplace models of work and how to harness social, mobile, analytics and cloud technologies, or the SMAC Stack.
F&S whitepaper successfully adopting the cloud - europePhilippe Boivineau
This document provides an overview of successfully adopting cloud computing. It discusses the changing role of the CIO, the rise of cloud computing, drivers of cloud adoption, current adoption trends, and recommendations for implementing cloud strategies. The key points are:
1) CIOs are taking on more strategic roles to enable business growth through technologies like mobility, social media, and cloud computing.
2) Cloud computing presents opportunities for cost savings, scalability, and avoiding data center expansion. However, implementation requires a long-term strategy and partner.
3) Current cloud adoption focuses on applications like web hosting, email and backup storage, but adoption of other applications is expected to grow significantly in the next two years.
"How CenturyLink is Setting the standard for the Next Generation of Cloud Ser...Lillian Hiscox
The document discusses how CenturyLink is positioning itself for the next generation of cloud services through its acquisition and integration strategy and its flexible CenturyLink cloud platform. Key points:
- CenturyLink has made strategic acquisitions including Savvis, AppFog, Tier 3, DataGardens, and Cognilytics to build its cloud portfolio. It has integrated the services and adopted a DevOps approach.
- The CenturyLink cloud platform supports infrastructure provisioning, application management, workload orchestration through automated blueprints, vertical and horizontal auto-scaling, and developer-friendly capabilities.
- The platform is designed to meet the evolving needs of enterprises by providing integration, functionality, visibility and control across multiple
- CIOs are facing mounting pressure to do more with less as IT spending decreases and more technology spending occurs outside the IT department.
- Unified Computing combines outsourcing managed services with cloud computing to provide IT departments agility and lower costs while allowing them to become strategic enablers of the business.
- This approach provides all the benefits of cloud infrastructure alongside application skills and delivery from a large systems integrator. Companies like UEFA have adopted this model to dynamically scale their systems and lower costs.
Although cloud is widely recognized as a technology
game changer, its potential for driving business innovation remains virtually untapped.
Indeed, cloud has the power to fundamentally shift competitive landscapes by providing a
new platform for creating and delivering business value. To take advantage of cloud’s
potential to transform internal operations, customer relationships and industry value
chains, organizations need to determine how best to employ cloud-enabled business
models that promote sustainable competitive advantage.
VMware Business Agility and the True Economics of Cloud ComputingVMware
New groundbreaking global survey findings demonstrate
the true value of cloud computing to the business. While it is understood in the industry that cloud computing provides clear cost benefits, CIOs are having difficulty getting a true fix on the business value that cloud might offer beyond cost reduction. These survey results reveal a direct link between cloud computing and business agility—how business outcomes are associated with agility, the role of IT for agile companies and the importance of cloud computing to business leaders.
This document discusses how IT organizations are evolving from reactive operations models focused on maintaining existing systems, to more proactive models that drive business goals through strategic technology investments. It describes a three phase process where virtualization initially provides server consolidation benefits, then automation and management efficiencies, and finally a fully virtualized, software-defined data center enabling an IT-as-a-service model. This allows IT to shift resources from operations to new initiatives that generate revenue and growth for the business. The evolution transforms the CIO's role from functional manager to business strategist focused on innovation.
Cognizanti Journal: XaaS, Code Halos, SMAC and the Future of WorkCognizant
This issue of Cognizanti Journal focuses on successfully transitioning to the Future of Work. Article topics include "everything as a service," the emerging world of Code Halos, anytime/anyplace models of work and how to harness social, mobile, analytics and cloud technologies, or the SMAC Stack.
F&S whitepaper successfully adopting the cloud - europePhilippe Boivineau
This document provides an overview of successfully adopting cloud computing. It discusses the changing role of the CIO, the rise of cloud computing, drivers of cloud adoption, current adoption trends, and recommendations for implementing cloud strategies. The key points are:
1) CIOs are taking on more strategic roles to enable business growth through technologies like mobility, social media, and cloud computing.
2) Cloud computing presents opportunities for cost savings, scalability, and avoiding data center expansion. However, implementation requires a long-term strategy and partner.
3) Current cloud adoption focuses on applications like web hosting, email and backup storage, but adoption of other applications is expected to grow significantly in the next two years.
Atelier SAP 2014 business transformation to the cloudIan Grant-Smith
This document discusses business transformation to the cloud. It argues that strategy, competitive advantage, and financial impact are key considerations for companies exploring this transition. The cloud can provide benefits beyond just technology, including opportunities to optimize processes, improve agility, and gain a competitive edge through lower costs and faster innovation. However, transforming to the cloud requires addressing people, processes, tools, and data in addition to technology. Done right, business transformation to the cloud can help companies adapt, remain competitive, and improve their financial performance over the long run.
CIO Applications Magazine Names Bardess One of the Top 25 ML Solution Providerschrishems1
The investment Bardess has made in Tangent Works InstantML is critical to the industry to address what we see as a current weakness with all other AutoML technologies which is they rely on brute force (heavy compute effort) to select the best algorithm and hyper parameters, at the expense of rapid results.
This document discusses the benefits of moving IT infrastructure services to cloud-based delivery models. It argues that traditional on-premise infrastructure is inefficient and limits business agility and responsiveness. The cloud offers unprecedented flexibility and cost savings by allowing infrastructure to be provisioned and managed remotely via robust networks. However, some IT managers are hesitant due to concerns over data security, performance and control. This document aims to dispel common myths about public cloud risks and shows how enterprise-grade private cloud solutions delivered over managed networks can address these concerns while delivering cloud benefits.
In almost every organisation, irrespective of its size and industry sector, IT infrastructure managers today are grappling with the same challenges: how to transform IT efficiency; increase agility and flexibility; and lower overheads in such a way that performance, availability, resilience, data security and compliance remain under tight control.
This document discusses how adopting an agile approach to outsourcing can help organizations accelerate the benefits of outsourcing in today's rapidly changing business landscape. It recommends that companies define their business strategy, create a base case of current costs, and understand their target operating model to prepare for an agile outsourcing approach. Adopting agile methods allows for faster implementation of outsourcing solutions through more flexible contracts and cloud-based "as-a-service" offerings.
Breaking Bad Data: The Journey to Data-fuelled Digital TransformationCapgemini
Jorgen Heizenberg explains how a business can harness data both from within and outside the organization to fuel its journey to digital transformation.
Presented at Informatica World 2016 by Jorgen Heizenberg, CTO Netherlands, Capgemini Insights & Data
The document discusses how digital transformation is requiring organizations to rethink their datacenter strategies and move to a more distributed approach. It notes that existing inward-focused datacenters cannot accommodate new demands for things like content delivery, real-time analytics, and long-term data archiving. To meet these challenges, the document advocates shifting to an interconnection-oriented architecture and using datacenters in optimal locations that allow for proximity to customers, partners, clouds and the network edge.
Executives in this study rated their own organizations based on both revenue/effectiveness
and profit/efficiency. Sixty-eight percent more high-performing organizations report having
fully integrated their cloud initiatives into an overall strategic transformation compared to the
full survey sample (57 percent versus 34 percent, respectively).
Integration allows rapid business reconfiguration to create new business models and ecosystems while continually optimizing customer experience and business operations.
The document discusses taking a holistic approach to implementing robotic process automation (RPA) in insurance operations. It emphasizes analyzing processes to identify those suitable for automation, considering automation as one of several tools in process improvement, and planning change management to address the impact on roles. A holistic approach considers governance, strategic alignment, talent impacts, and maintaining automation over the long run for successful RPA implementation.
20151014 Presentation Conferência Banca e Seguros PortugalPascal Spelier
I was invited by Capgemini Portugal and ACEPI (Associação da Economia Digital) to present at the 'Conferência Banca e Seguros' event in Lisbon. In this presentation some of the results of the annual World Retail Banking Report 2015 and the three goals an bank should strive for in the near future. Customer behavior, technology and FinTech are changing the value chain for financial services. The incumbents should get ready to take on these challenges. Do you want more info about the presentation or do you want a similar presentation with data from your country? Contact: pascal(dot)spelier(at)capgemini(dot)com
The human capital management market is in a constant state of flux. Not only are there new entrants all the time, but changes in the HR function and shifting expectations make it harder to simply be reactive. HR buyers now demand that HCM providers become proactive, and solutions have to reflect that new normal.
Brandon Hall Group and The Starr Conspiracy have teamed up to deliver key insights into this evolving market.
Download the paper today to get insight into all of the trends you need to know about to stay competitive in this ever-changing market.
http://campaigns.thestarrconspiracy.com/state-of-hcm/
IT Outsourcing Trends - 2016 and beyond Euro IT Group
Worldwide IT Outsourcing market
Digitalization puts pressure on all organizations
Business leads technology
Large contract renegotiation
New working & pricing models
Flexible sourcing models
Project management trends
Co-opetition between IT service providers
Focus on risk
Employment strategies
New technology trends
This document discusses a study by IDC on the business value of VCE Vblock converged infrastructure systems. The study found that Vblock customers achieved significant benefits including improved IT agility, increased innovation and business enablement, higher application development and service delivery, reduced costs, and improved customer experience. On average, customers saw a 518% return on investment and payback period of 7.5 months. Key benefits included faster provisioning, improved productivity, and more time spent on strategic initiatives rather than infrastructure maintenance. [/SUMMARY]
White Paper IDC | The Business Value of VCE Vblock Systems: Leveraging Conver...Melissa Luongo
The Business Value of VCE Vblock Systems: Leveraging Convergence to Drive Business Agility
In the past decade, information technology (IT) evolved from an enabler of back-office business processes to the very foundation of a modern business. In the increasingly digital and mobile world, the datacenter is often the first and most frequent point of contact with customers. The ability to innovate quickly lies at the heart of today’s changing business models. Businesses expect their IT investments to accelerate their pace of innovation, provide flexibility to meet new demands, and continually reduce the costs of operations.
Converged infrastructure is essential for many companies to ensure that their datacenter infrastructures can meet today’s challenges. The business rationale for deploying converged infrastructure goes far beyond traditional IT feeds and speeds. Customers using converged solutions like VCE’s Vblock Systems (Vblock) realize lower costs, greater levels of utilization, and reduced downtime. VCE customers in this study recognized business benefits such as improved organizational agility, faster application development, increased innovation, and improved employee productivity.
IDC interviewed 16 VCE Vblock Systems customers to understand and quantify the benefits delivered by their Vblock converged infrastructure deployments. Vblock Systems are built by VCE using compute, network, and storage technologies and virtualization software from Cisco, EMC, and VMware.
IDC found that by using Vblock Systems, these organizations recorded improved business outcomes and that these improvements are increasingly driving IT investment decisions.
All VCE customers interviewed for this study generated substantial business value by consolidating their IT infrastructures with Vblock. IDC calculates that these VCE customers will generate five-year discounted benefits worth an average of $384,202 per 100 users by using Vblock, which will result in an average return on investment (ROI) of 518% and a payback period of 7.5 months.
This document summarizes the key findings of a survey on cloud adoption trends:
- Cloud adoption is growing significantly, with over 60% of businesses using public cloud, 71% using private cloud, and 55% using hybrid cloud. Adoption of all cloud models is expected to continue growing in the next 18 months.
- Businesses are moving more workloads to the cloud, with the average expected to increase from 29% currently to 54% in the next two years. Cloud budgets are also increasing as a percentage of IT budgets.
- Over half of businesses now consider cloud essential to their business. Successful cloud adopters rely heavily on third-party experts for developing and implementing cloud strategies.
- Line of business decision
IT and Business solutions through Cloud and Big Data transformation for stron...Rolta
Rising tide of data velocity and multiplication of IT environment has caused problems to the organizations in holding their market presence. In a bid to outperform competition, and problem organizations need heavy research to get to a feasible solution. To conquer these difficulties, Rolta delivers a range of services which help organizations in building strong IT infrastructure with minimal support costs.
This document discusses automotive IT sourcing challenges and emerging trends in IT sourcing to help automotive OEMs plan for the future. It identifies key challenges as lack of efficiency, transparency, flexibility and resilience. New sourcing trends include a focus on cost reduction, agility, and strategic partnerships. The document outlines Deloitte's sourcing methodology and lessons learned to help companies evaluate sourcing options and make sourcing decisions.
The document is a 2014 cloud survey report from KPMG that discusses the growing use and impact of cloud technology in businesses. It finds that while cost efficiency was initially the main driver for cloud adoption, businesses are now increasingly using cloud to transform processes and business models. The survey found a significant increase in cloud usage from 2012 to 2014. It also reports that cloud is projected to have a major role in delivering business services and driving innovation in the future.
Cloud ROI and Implementation - A TechBlocks Solutions GuideTechBlocks
Realize your business potential in the cloud. This guide includes:
- How to improve business productivity in the cloud
- How to measure cloud ROI
- A step-by-step process for building your roadmap for success
1. Putting together a qualified team
2. Creating a written business case and strategy
3. Picking the right deployment and service model
4. Creating governance rules
5. Overcoming compliance and security issues
6. Integrating, validating and managing the cloud
7. Moving forward into the cloud - long term management
Atelier SAP 2014 business transformation to the cloudIan Grant-Smith
This document discusses business transformation to the cloud. It argues that strategy, competitive advantage, and financial impact are key considerations for companies exploring this transition. The cloud can provide benefits beyond just technology, including opportunities to optimize processes, improve agility, and gain a competitive edge through lower costs and faster innovation. However, transforming to the cloud requires addressing people, processes, tools, and data in addition to technology. Done right, business transformation to the cloud can help companies adapt, remain competitive, and improve their financial performance over the long run.
CIO Applications Magazine Names Bardess One of the Top 25 ML Solution Providerschrishems1
The investment Bardess has made in Tangent Works InstantML is critical to the industry to address what we see as a current weakness with all other AutoML technologies which is they rely on brute force (heavy compute effort) to select the best algorithm and hyper parameters, at the expense of rapid results.
This document discusses the benefits of moving IT infrastructure services to cloud-based delivery models. It argues that traditional on-premise infrastructure is inefficient and limits business agility and responsiveness. The cloud offers unprecedented flexibility and cost savings by allowing infrastructure to be provisioned and managed remotely via robust networks. However, some IT managers are hesitant due to concerns over data security, performance and control. This document aims to dispel common myths about public cloud risks and shows how enterprise-grade private cloud solutions delivered over managed networks can address these concerns while delivering cloud benefits.
In almost every organisation, irrespective of its size and industry sector, IT infrastructure managers today are grappling with the same challenges: how to transform IT efficiency; increase agility and flexibility; and lower overheads in such a way that performance, availability, resilience, data security and compliance remain under tight control.
This document discusses how adopting an agile approach to outsourcing can help organizations accelerate the benefits of outsourcing in today's rapidly changing business landscape. It recommends that companies define their business strategy, create a base case of current costs, and understand their target operating model to prepare for an agile outsourcing approach. Adopting agile methods allows for faster implementation of outsourcing solutions through more flexible contracts and cloud-based "as-a-service" offerings.
Breaking Bad Data: The Journey to Data-fuelled Digital TransformationCapgemini
Jorgen Heizenberg explains how a business can harness data both from within and outside the organization to fuel its journey to digital transformation.
Presented at Informatica World 2016 by Jorgen Heizenberg, CTO Netherlands, Capgemini Insights & Data
The document discusses how digital transformation is requiring organizations to rethink their datacenter strategies and move to a more distributed approach. It notes that existing inward-focused datacenters cannot accommodate new demands for things like content delivery, real-time analytics, and long-term data archiving. To meet these challenges, the document advocates shifting to an interconnection-oriented architecture and using datacenters in optimal locations that allow for proximity to customers, partners, clouds and the network edge.
Executives in this study rated their own organizations based on both revenue/effectiveness
and profit/efficiency. Sixty-eight percent more high-performing organizations report having
fully integrated their cloud initiatives into an overall strategic transformation compared to the
full survey sample (57 percent versus 34 percent, respectively).
Integration allows rapid business reconfiguration to create new business models and ecosystems while continually optimizing customer experience and business operations.
The document discusses taking a holistic approach to implementing robotic process automation (RPA) in insurance operations. It emphasizes analyzing processes to identify those suitable for automation, considering automation as one of several tools in process improvement, and planning change management to address the impact on roles. A holistic approach considers governance, strategic alignment, talent impacts, and maintaining automation over the long run for successful RPA implementation.
20151014 Presentation Conferência Banca e Seguros PortugalPascal Spelier
I was invited by Capgemini Portugal and ACEPI (Associação da Economia Digital) to present at the 'Conferência Banca e Seguros' event in Lisbon. In this presentation some of the results of the annual World Retail Banking Report 2015 and the three goals an bank should strive for in the near future. Customer behavior, technology and FinTech are changing the value chain for financial services. The incumbents should get ready to take on these challenges. Do you want more info about the presentation or do you want a similar presentation with data from your country? Contact: pascal(dot)spelier(at)capgemini(dot)com
The human capital management market is in a constant state of flux. Not only are there new entrants all the time, but changes in the HR function and shifting expectations make it harder to simply be reactive. HR buyers now demand that HCM providers become proactive, and solutions have to reflect that new normal.
Brandon Hall Group and The Starr Conspiracy have teamed up to deliver key insights into this evolving market.
Download the paper today to get insight into all of the trends you need to know about to stay competitive in this ever-changing market.
http://campaigns.thestarrconspiracy.com/state-of-hcm/
IT Outsourcing Trends - 2016 and beyond Euro IT Group
Worldwide IT Outsourcing market
Digitalization puts pressure on all organizations
Business leads technology
Large contract renegotiation
New working & pricing models
Flexible sourcing models
Project management trends
Co-opetition between IT service providers
Focus on risk
Employment strategies
New technology trends
This document discusses a study by IDC on the business value of VCE Vblock converged infrastructure systems. The study found that Vblock customers achieved significant benefits including improved IT agility, increased innovation and business enablement, higher application development and service delivery, reduced costs, and improved customer experience. On average, customers saw a 518% return on investment and payback period of 7.5 months. Key benefits included faster provisioning, improved productivity, and more time spent on strategic initiatives rather than infrastructure maintenance. [/SUMMARY]
White Paper IDC | The Business Value of VCE Vblock Systems: Leveraging Conver...Melissa Luongo
The Business Value of VCE Vblock Systems: Leveraging Convergence to Drive Business Agility
In the past decade, information technology (IT) evolved from an enabler of back-office business processes to the very foundation of a modern business. In the increasingly digital and mobile world, the datacenter is often the first and most frequent point of contact with customers. The ability to innovate quickly lies at the heart of today’s changing business models. Businesses expect their IT investments to accelerate their pace of innovation, provide flexibility to meet new demands, and continually reduce the costs of operations.
Converged infrastructure is essential for many companies to ensure that their datacenter infrastructures can meet today’s challenges. The business rationale for deploying converged infrastructure goes far beyond traditional IT feeds and speeds. Customers using converged solutions like VCE’s Vblock Systems (Vblock) realize lower costs, greater levels of utilization, and reduced downtime. VCE customers in this study recognized business benefits such as improved organizational agility, faster application development, increased innovation, and improved employee productivity.
IDC interviewed 16 VCE Vblock Systems customers to understand and quantify the benefits delivered by their Vblock converged infrastructure deployments. Vblock Systems are built by VCE using compute, network, and storage technologies and virtualization software from Cisco, EMC, and VMware.
IDC found that by using Vblock Systems, these organizations recorded improved business outcomes and that these improvements are increasingly driving IT investment decisions.
All VCE customers interviewed for this study generated substantial business value by consolidating their IT infrastructures with Vblock. IDC calculates that these VCE customers will generate five-year discounted benefits worth an average of $384,202 per 100 users by using Vblock, which will result in an average return on investment (ROI) of 518% and a payback period of 7.5 months.
This document summarizes the key findings of a survey on cloud adoption trends:
- Cloud adoption is growing significantly, with over 60% of businesses using public cloud, 71% using private cloud, and 55% using hybrid cloud. Adoption of all cloud models is expected to continue growing in the next 18 months.
- Businesses are moving more workloads to the cloud, with the average expected to increase from 29% currently to 54% in the next two years. Cloud budgets are also increasing as a percentage of IT budgets.
- Over half of businesses now consider cloud essential to their business. Successful cloud adopters rely heavily on third-party experts for developing and implementing cloud strategies.
- Line of business decision
IT and Business solutions through Cloud and Big Data transformation for stron...Rolta
Rising tide of data velocity and multiplication of IT environment has caused problems to the organizations in holding their market presence. In a bid to outperform competition, and problem organizations need heavy research to get to a feasible solution. To conquer these difficulties, Rolta delivers a range of services which help organizations in building strong IT infrastructure with minimal support costs.
This document discusses automotive IT sourcing challenges and emerging trends in IT sourcing to help automotive OEMs plan for the future. It identifies key challenges as lack of efficiency, transparency, flexibility and resilience. New sourcing trends include a focus on cost reduction, agility, and strategic partnerships. The document outlines Deloitte's sourcing methodology and lessons learned to help companies evaluate sourcing options and make sourcing decisions.
The document is a 2014 cloud survey report from KPMG that discusses the growing use and impact of cloud technology in businesses. It finds that while cost efficiency was initially the main driver for cloud adoption, businesses are now increasingly using cloud to transform processes and business models. The survey found a significant increase in cloud usage from 2012 to 2014. It also reports that cloud is projected to have a major role in delivering business services and driving innovation in the future.
Cloud ROI and Implementation - A TechBlocks Solutions GuideTechBlocks
Realize your business potential in the cloud. This guide includes:
- How to improve business productivity in the cloud
- How to measure cloud ROI
- A step-by-step process for building your roadmap for success
1. Putting together a qualified team
2. Creating a written business case and strategy
3. Picking the right deployment and service model
4. Creating governance rules
5. Overcoming compliance and security issues
6. Integrating, validating and managing the cloud
7. Moving forward into the cloud - long term management
The power of Cloud - Driving business model innovationIBM Software India
This document discusses how cloud computing can drive business model innovation. It provides an overview of key findings from a survey of 572 business and technology executives. The survey found that while cloud is widely recognized as an important technology, few organizations currently use it to drive major business model changes. However, many expect to leverage cloud's potential over the next three years to transform operations, customer relationships and industry value chains. The document identifies six "business enablers" that cloud provides: cost flexibility, business scalability, market adaptability, masked complexity, context-driven variability, and ecosystem connectivity. It provides examples of companies innovating their business models around these enablers. The document concludes that cloud has significant untapped potential to power
AWS Cloud Migration: How Modernization Accelerates Value CreationCognizant
With cloud migration well underway, organizations are embarking on large-scale modernization efforts to improve the speed and economics of IT service delivery, boost business innovation and engage customers with new experiences.
Beyond Cost Savings: Driving Business Value from the Cloud Through XaaSCognizant
By using the cloud for analytics services and other run-the-business capabilities, organizations can move quickly into new markets and free capital for innovation initiatives.
MSP Industry Brief - From Break / Fix to Recurring Revenue Madeline Titcomb
This industry brief highlights the industry and technology trends impacting MSPs now and in the future. It highlights ways for MSPs to take advantage of the cloud to create new revenue streams, address customer needs, and grow recurring
revenue for greater profitability and less volatility.
The document discusses how hybrid IT infrastructure solutions, which utilize a mix of colocated data centers, managed services, and cloud computing, allow organizations to balance IT agility demands with cost constraints. It notes that a recent survey found most companies will rely on a hybrid model for the next 5 years. The hybrid approach allows companies to select the right infrastructure type for each application based on factors like risk, cost, and agility needs. Colocation is often the initial step as it provides control and quick deployment, while managed services and cloud use will grow over time.
We have developed a four-part framework to help companies determine organizational areas that could be best served by the cloud. By aligning technology with business strategy and understanding how the organization must adapt, companies can optimize the impact of their cloud investments.
Reincarnating traditional infrastructure outsourcingNIIT Technologies
The document summarizes the decline of traditional infrastructure outsourcing models and the rise of next generation outsourcing providers. Specifically:
- Traditional outsourcing is declining due to dissatisfaction with rigid contracts and finger-pointing between vendors. New customers expect more flexibility and agility from providers.
- Next generation providers are adapting to new technologies and customer expectations by offering flexible, pay-per-use models focused on business value over strict service level agreements.
- A case study example shows how one IT provider delivered a mobile solution that improved a manufacturing client's productivity and customer satisfaction through real-time invoice processing.
Many businesses consider their telecom system a utility—an asset base that is just there and hardly worth thinking about. Yet that very nonchalance is a symptom of just how essential communications systems are. Ask most organizations what they would do without phone and Internet access, and the answer would likely be that their business would come to a screeching halt. The communications portfolio has become that important to businesses today—and, ironically, all too often taken for granted.
Rebooting IT Infrastructure for the Digital AgeCapgemini
The Digital Transformation Institute has launched its latest research report titled “Faster, Better, Smarter: Rebooting IT Infrastructure for the Digital Age.” The report highlights why organizations need robust and seamless IT infrastructure that keeps pace with evolving market and technology demands. IT infrastructure has always been known as a “keeping the lights on” function but now it has evolved into a core catalyst of Digital Transformation. However, as a function, IT infrastructure is yet to undergo a core transformation. The report discusses why a reboot is critical.
Free Gartner Report: Aligning Supply and Demand for IT Services
Cloud computing is transforming how IT manages costs and standards, but its impact extends into how IT itself is managed as a business. Public cloud computing puts pressure on the entire IT cost structure to become wiser and more efficient about balancing the supply and demand for IT services.
While cloud commoditization is driving down prices, IT is forced to manage resulting increases in consumption. The report recommends steps CIOs should take to improve the maturity of their approach to IT service management, installing:
• Benchmarking and chargeback to manage demand for cloud services
• Expand their strategic vendor management and IT procurement practices
• Become a broker of services, including external cloud computing.
Consider using IT cost transparency improvement as a cultural change agent to transform the IT organization from a focus on “speed and quality” to one of “IT cost and business value”.
For more cloud management insights visit http://vmware-erdos.com
Sap hana-enterprise-cloud--bringing-the-revolution-to-your-organizationPravin Sonawane
The document discusses the benefits of cloud computing and SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud. It states that cloud computing enables organizational revolution by increasing agility. It also notes that SAP has bet its future on SAP HANA, which has been very successful. The document summarizes that cloud computing provides opportunities for revolution through increased agility and competitive advantage.
By aligning technology with business strategy and understanding how the organization must adapt, companies can optimize the impact of their cloud investments. Companies can use four criteria to determine where the cloud can deliver the most value.
Learn more from our Cloud resource center - http://gt-us.co/1BQYYqp
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Project Deliverable 4: Analytics, Interfaces, and Cloud Technology
By: Justin M. Blazejewski
CIS 499
Professor Dr. Janet Durgin
25 November 2012
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Project Deliverable 4: Analytics, Interfaces, and Cloud Technology
By: Justin M. Blazejewski
CIS 499
Professor Dr. Janet Durgin
25 November 2012
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Business Analytics means the practice of iterative and methodological examination of a business’s data with a special emphasis on statistic making. Business Analytics can further help businesses automate and optimize their business processes. Companies in which data plays a pivotal role, treats its data as a corporate assets and leverages it for gaining competitive advantage. A successful business analytics would typically depend on data quality, highly skillful and experienced professionals who understand the technologies, knows how to work with it and also understands the organizations processes in depth. Apart from this, the organization should have a capable infrastructure to support the operations of business analytics.
Usage of Business Analysis is done for the following purposes:
· Exploration of data so as to find patterns and trends
· Identifying relationships in key data variables for forecasting. For instance next probable purchase by the customer
· Drilling down to the results to find out why a particular incident took place. This approach is done by performing statistical analysis and quantitative analysis with business analytical tools
· Predicting future results by employing predictive modeling and predictive analytics
· Testing previous decisions using A/B and Multivariate testing
· Assisting business in decision making such as figuring out the amount of discount to be given for a new customer
Post identifying of business goal, an analysis methodology needs to be selected and the data is acquired to support the analysis. This data acquisition normally involves extracting data from systems that may be spread throughout different locations an ...
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1. Outsourcing for Innovation:
How Cloud Transforms
Outsourcing from a
Cost-Cutting Measure to
Something More Strategic
White paper: Outsourcing for Innovation
Table of Contents
2 Introduction
3 IT Outsourcing is Back
4 The Move to the Cloud
7 Getting the Best of All
Outsourcing Worlds
8 The Savvis Portfolio
9 Conclusion
10 Case Studies
Steve Garrou
Vice President, Outsourcing and Cloud Services
2. 2
Introduction
Cloud computing is now a viable option for businesses seeking to outsource part
or all of their IT operations. But in this new era — where the power of the Internet
is harnessed for IT tasks — outsourcing to the cloud can be a strategic maneuver,
not just a cost-cutting measure. After all, the goals of IT cost reduction include
freeing up resources to focus on core competencies: enhancing solution/service
competitiveness, generating revenue from new business development, streamlining
existing business processes. As enterprises return to expansion, they will prioritize
revenue growth over cost cutting by focusing on maintaining competitive
advantage, retaining and growing customers, attracting and retaining talent, and
improving efficiency to intrinsically reduce costs.
To accomplish these goals, businesses are seeking ways to optimize their
infrastructure by trying to avoid two extremes: wasted capacity, which results
in excess spend; and insufficient capacity, which directly impacts their ability to
respond to market demands. Enterprises now require a spectrum of IT strategies
atop an adaptive infrastructure to do more with less, and transform the forced
austerity of the last two years into competitive advantage.
This is where cloud computing comes in. Analysts suggest that cloud is poised to
change all phases of the sourcing lifecycle by forcing enterprises to reevaluate their
basic infrastructure attributes — including the partners that deliver resources, their
approaches to managing infrastructure and applications assets, and the economic
and commercial models they use to acquire, deploy, and manage solutions.
To fully achieve the maximum benefits cloud
computing offers, enterprises need to embrace
hybrid service models and service integration
expertise. By judiciously deciding when it makes
sense to transition to the cloud, when to keep
critical components of their infrastructures on more
traditional service models, and how to flex in an
environment with different infrastructure services,
companies can focus on business priorities to
achieve a competitive advantage. According to
Gartner, “Competitiveness will be the new litmus test
guiding IT investments.”1
Although cloud is going
to change the face of outsourcing, companies need
to partner with service providers that thoroughly
understand all enterprise sourcing models to ensure
they find the right balance.
“Coming out of a global recession, businesses must
adjust to the ‘new normal.’ This requires putting an
adaptive IT infrastructure in place that maximizes
flexibility, scalability, and performance while driving
down costs at a time when business environments
are becoming more complex, and end users’ needs
increasingly diverse.”
– Steve Garrou
Vice President, Outsourcing and Cloud Services, Savvis
1
Gartner on Outsourcing, 2009-2010, December 23, 2009.
3. 3
Savvis has long been highly regarded as a global leader in infrastructure
outsourcing. But a less known fact is that Savvis provided cloud computing
before it was called cloud. Savvis’ original utility compute and dedicated compute
hosting solutions have been delivering value to customers for more than a decade.
Subsequent iterations of these solutions — Savvis’ dedicated and virtual hosting
solutions — took advantage of advances in virtualization, networking, and security
to deliver even greater cost savings and flexibility to businesses. Today, with
Symphony Dedicated, Symphony Open, and Symphony Virtual Private Data Center
(VPDC), Savvis is still pushing the innovation envelope, providing scalable, just-in-
time computing resources in the cloud to help businesses gain a competitive edge.
Perhaps most importantly, Savvis offers a robust outsourcing portfolio that
includes, but which is not restricted to, cloud. Its outsourcing model includes
flexible financial terms, a global footprint, and a service catalog that can be
tailored for the specific needs of individual businesses. Never pushing cloud for
cloud’s sake, Savvis understands how to help businesses integrate a range of
diverse IT environments in a way that makes sense.
IT Outsourcing is Back
After a period of stagnation related partly to the economic downturn, the IT
outsourcing market is again growing. According to IT consultancy EquaTerra,
more than 75 percent of the service providers it polled in the third quarter of
2009 reported continued growth in their deal pipeline — up 10 percent from
the previous quarter and 34 percent from the same period year-over-year.2
Technology Partners’ most recent Global TPI Index found that the total contract
value of IT outsourcing in the fourth quarter of 2009 was $19 billion — the
highest quarterly total in six years.3
And in Savvis’ own research, more than half
(51 percent) of respondents said the majority of their IT infrastructure would be
outsourced by 2020.4
These numbers are bolstered by the attitudes of business executives. Sixty-six
percent of IT decision makers surveyed said that “pursuing outsourcing or
off-shoring” is likely to be one of their IT organizations’ top technology priorities
over the next 12 months, according to Forrester.5
When coupling the move toward
greater outsourcing with these executives’ top three business priorities over the
next 12 months — growing overall company revenue (53 percent); lowering overall
operating costs (52 percent); and acquiring and retaining customers (35 percent),
it seems apparent that outsourcing is increasingly seen as a holistic business
strategy rather than just an IT cost-cutting measure.
2
EquaTerra’s 1Q10 Advisor and Business/IT Service Provider Pulse Survey, April 2010.
3
“Global TPI Index,” Technology Partners, April 2010.
4
“Rising to the Challenge: 2010 Global IT Leadership Report, Savvis.
5
“Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Are Top Priorities for 2010 and 2011”, Forrester Research, Inc. September 2, 2010
4. 4
Indeed, in a recent Capgemini survey,6
60 percent of executives said outsourcing
could make their businesses more agile and flexible. Seventy percent of them
also said that by outsourcing IT as well as other core functions, they could fund
strategic business initiatives with the money saved. This in turn improves their
ability to be innovative and compete more effectively in their market segment.7
The Move to the Cloud
Cloud in particular has created a new wave of IT outsourcing that has the
potential to drive competitive advantage for businesses.
In Savvis’ 2009 “Rising to the Challenge 2009” survey, most businesses were
skeptical about cloud — indeed, a full one-third of IT professionals surveyed were
unsure of or didn’t know anything about cloud. A significant percentage felt it was
oversold, and too risky for enterprise-class applications.8
The story told by the 2010 survey was dramatically different. Almost half of
respondents are more confident today that cloud is enterprise ready. More than
half (54 percent) either currently use cloud, or plan to use it within the next
12 months. Indeed, one conclusion of the research is that the catalysts for the
businesses plans to migrate to an outsourced IT model over the next decade is
largely due to the cloud.9
Businesses that outsource to the cloud get numerous benefits, including:
Increased flexibility and scalability. Business agility is not an option, but a necessity
in today’s global markets. Because of this, “buyers of outsourcing will be more
demanding of their providers to deliver IT value and quality, which will mean greater
participation of the business user in sourcing decisions. These users will likely
push for consideration of alternative services, to deliver the speed and agility that
competitiveness demands,” says Gartner.10
The just-in-time model for provisioning
and de-provisioning services enabled by cloud will be very attractive to business
units, because they are assured that IT capacity will be there when they need it while
minimizing their operating expenses. IT will need to dial up and dial down compute
resources in near-real-time without having to overbuy to meet peak loads.
Lower total cost of ownership (TCO). All cost reductions are not equal. In the
recent economic recession, it was not uncommon for enterprises to cut capacity
and capabilities as they tried to drive costs out of operational and capital budgets
alike. However, organizations need to understand that rather than cost-driven
decision-making, they need to take a more holistic view of what it means to
be cost competitive. With cloud computing, capital expenditures (CAPEX) are
shifted to operational expenses (OPEX), which has important implications on cash
flow and taxes.
6
“2009 Capgemini Executive Outsourcing Survey,” August 2009.
7
Ibid.
8
“Rising to the Challenge 2009,” Savvis.
9
“Rising to the Challenge 2010,” Savvis.
10
Gartner on Outsourcing, 2009-2010, December 23, 2009.
5. 5
Moreover, cloud will help IT to get closer to the business. According to Gartner,
“Industrialized infrastructure solutions focused on business outcome will require
internal IT to develop proactive demand management tools that enable business
outcome measurement and to become an enabler for change.”11
Also according to Gartner, “cloud-enabled services are becoming increasingly
viable. The attraction is scalability, pay-as-you-go and freedom from
infrastructure build-out. The cloud is likely to accelerate the transfer of ownership
for other assets as well, from servers to whole data centers.”12
And the fact
that capacity will be accessed just in time basis has enormous ramifications for
budgeting. When outsourcing to the cloud, companies can cut costs without
cutting capabilities because of such things as instant modernization, portfolio
rationalization, vendor consolidation, standardization, and the adoption of a
service-oriented architecture (SOA).
There is a gap between the benefits of cloud, and actually realizing its potential.
“Businesses need to leverage the IT assets they already have — throwing them
away is simply not an option,” said Michael Spires, senior manager, Shared
Services and Outsourcing Advisory, KPMG. “If I’m moving a major application
to the cloud, I don’t want to end up with dead hardware assets. If I don’t have a
strategy for utilizing those assets, then cloud simply can’t be financially justified
for certain types of applications.”
11
Gartner, “The Future Trends for Infrastructure Outsourcing,” August 16, 2010.
12
Gartner’s Top Predictions for IT Organizations and Users, 2010 and Beyond: A New Balance. December 29, 2009.
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In-house Private Cloud
Hosted Private Cloud
Public Cloud
Reduced Capex
Opex
Standardization Automation
6. 6
Improved reliability. Availability is everything. Business users depend upon their
applications, and the enterprise depends on round-the-clock operational integrity
of all infrastructure components: servers, network, and security. Outsourcing to
the cloud with a trusted provider can guarantee as high as “five 9s” availability
(99.999 percent uptime), with robust redundancy and fail-safe disaster recovery
capabilities that minimize mean time to recovery (MTTR), as well.
Access to latest cloud technologies and skills sets. Already, more than half of IT
departments are “somewhat or extremely understaffed”; 40 percent say this is a
“big or huge” problem.13
Because cloud is still an emerging area, most businesses
don’t yet have experienced cloud technologists and analysts in house. Perhaps
they never intend to hire such resources. By outsourcing to a managed IT services
provider, they immediately acquire world-class cloud experts to be virtual
members of their IT teams.
Reduced IT infrastructure waste. Approximately 39 percent of organizations are
using only 55 percent of capacity at maximum server utilization. The fact that
43 percent of them only reach maximum levels 128 times a year speaks worlds
of the advantages of using the just-in-time feature of cloud versus the traditional
method of overbuying capacity.14
Continuous infrastructure upgrades. Keeping on top of the latest and greatest
infrastructure technologies is often not an option for businesses, which have to
make sure their investments in technology last for years. But when outsourcing
infrastructure in general, and outsourcing infrastructure to the cloud in particular,
businesses reap the advantages of service providers’ constant “refreshes” of key
infrastructure components such as servers, storage, operating systems, networks,
and security mechanisms.
Complete control over cloud monitoring and management. Top-tier cloud
outsourcers not only closely monitor and manage the performance of key
infrastructure components for their customers, they offer businesses the ability
to monitor and manage their own infrastructures from self-service portals or
consoles. This allows businesses to stay on top of all key metrics to ensure their
infrastructure is performing as needed, while giving them the ability to know
precisely where their data resides in the cloud. This latter feature is critical for
addressing businesses’ increasing regulatory and security concerns.
13
“2010 State of the Data Center Report,” Symantec.
14
“Rising to the Challenge 2010,” Savvis.
“If I’m moving a major application to the cloud, I don’t want
to end up with dead hardware assets. If I don’t have a
strategy for utilizing those assets, then cloud simply can’t be
financially justified for certain types of applications.”
— Michael Spires
Senior Manager, Shared Services and Outsourcing Advisory,
KPMG
7. 7
Getting the Best of All
Outsourcing Worlds
Each business operates at a different part
of the adoption section, and not every
organization should immediately transform
its entire IT infrastructure to a cloud-based
model. Depending on business and
technology requirements, there are cases
when traditional IT service models make
sense. What matters is that each enterprise
chooses a service provider that can integrate
a broad range of sourcing models — traditional
as well as cloud — to come up with a balance
that suits its specific needs.
A case in point: previously, businesses had to choose between predictability and
flexibility when building their IT infrastructures. Predictability meant that peak
capacity and capabilities would be there when they needed them. On the other hand,
flexibility referred to the ability of the organization to adapt its IT infrastructure its
actual needs. There were advantages and disadvantages to both approaches.
Today, with the combination of cloud and traditional IT infrastructure outsourcing
services, businesses can flexibly support a global IT infrastructure environment
with much better scalability — and an infrastructure that is both predictable and
flexible. Their ability to turn on and turn off resources — and pay for only what
is used — will be hugely liberating to companies used to having to overinvest to
handle burst modes. On the other hand, being able to move over only those IT
assets that require this kind of flexibility to cloud and keep the others operating
in more traditional ways is the most flexible route of all to take.
Outsourcing in this way offers financial flexibility to a degree previously unimaginable
in the IT world. The ability for businesses to balance cost effectiveness and
standardization against a flexible infrastructure could be a huge advantage in today’s
unpredictable post-recession economic environment. To fully reap these advantages,
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to incorporate traditional IT models with cloud in a way that allows them to protect
their investment in existing IT assets. As IDC points out, 2010 is the year for service
providers to reinvent themselves through transforming their business models. “Savvis
is unique because it provides clients with an Infrastructure-as-a-Service integrated
hosting model across multiple service components. Within the hosting continuum,
the company’s service offerings span from collocation to managed hosting and
include virtualized cloud offerings.”15
15
IDC, Savvis: Web Hosting and Managed Services Offerings, Doc # 224173, August 2010
“Savvis is unique because it provides clients with an
Infrastructure-as-a-Service integrated hosting model across
multiple service components. Within the hosting continuum,
the company’s service offerings span from collocation to
managed hosting and include virtualized cloud offerings.”
— IDC, Savvis: “Web Hosting and Managed Services Offerings”,
Doc # 224173, August 2010
8. 8
The Savvis Portfolio
Savvis’ flexible service approach offers its customers long-term value by meeting
their infrastructure needs at any given point in time. From basic colocation
services, where businesses retain control and management of their own
equipment; to managed services in which Savvis owns and manages the physical
hardware, to our Symphony offerings, which delivers infrastructure services in the
cloud, Savvis helps its customers achieve much greater flexibility and lower total
cost of ownership (TCO) by reducing both complexity and risk. See Figure 1.
Figure 1
In particular, the Savvis Symphony cloud product line extends Savvis’ leadership
position in managed services — including both dedicated and utility hosting — to
new levels by combining virtualization technology from VMware with Savvis’ own
cloud infrastructure. By giving businesses the ability to provision new instances
on-demand based on flexible term commitments, organizations can rapidly build,
control, and customize their infrastructures to support volatile demands with
Savvis offerings such as Symphony Open cloud and Symphony Dedicated cloud.
And with its Symphony VPDC cloud offering, Savvis introduces a new era of its
leading cloud computing services: the industry’s first enterprise-grade Virtual
Private Data Center (VPDC) with multi-tiered quality of service (QoS) levels.
9. 9
16
IDC’s Directions 2009 conference, March 2009
Conclusion
According to leading analysts, virtualization and cloud computing were the top
two technology priorities for 2010. IDC predicts that 25 percent of IT budgets will
be spent on cloud purchases by 2012.16
Migrating to cloud services represents a new approach to IT that requires a change
in mindset by enterprise IT leaders. Outsourcing to a managed services provider
with a portfolio of cloud solutions that include private, public, and hybrid models
is an approach that mitigates risk while providing a high ROI and an intrinsically
low TCO. Perhaps even more importantly, however, is that the chosen outsourcing
vendor understand the importance of flexibility when implementing cloud —
flexibility of the commercial model and the support structure as much as the
technology itself — so businesses can move to cloud at a pace that is right for them.
10. 10
Case Studies
Innovest Depends on the Savvis Cloud
Innovest was founded in 2000 to provide innovative technology-driven
middle- and back-office solutions to trust companies, wealth management firms,
not-for-profit institutions, and other organizations that manage assets held in
trust. Since its inception, Innovest was a colocation customer of a company whose
assets were eventually acquired by Savvis. In 2004, Innovest realized it needed
more than a colocation solution to keep up with its rapid expansion. It chose to
implement what was then called the Savvis Utility Compute service in 2004.
“A lot of companies were offering managed hosting, but Savvis was ahead of
them all with its utility compute platform, which offered us the scalability of being
able to turn up a server for 30 days and bring it back down as needed,” said Ray
Umerley, vice president, chief security officer at Innovest.
Now, after being a satisfied customer of Savvis cloud solutions for more than
six years, Innovest is beta testing Savvis Symphony Virtual Private Data Center
(VPDC) in preparation for deploying it as the platform for its industry-leading
SaaS trust and wealth management solutions.
Innovest now has the flexibility, scalability and control it needs to keep its IT
infrastructure in sync with customer demand for its solutions. “Today, if I need
more resources, I don’t even have to contact Savvis. I can go directly to my
customer portal and create a data center and deploy it,” Umerley said. “I don’t
have to talk to sales; I don’t need to talk to an engineer. Right now, via the
SavvisStation portal, I can actually go in and provision storage, I can provision
virtual machines, all without having to deal with any Savvis personnel.”
Whereas in the past it could take up to 90 days to provision physical servers and
build out the operating systems, Umerley can now deploy new systems in under
an hour. “Then we can turn it off and make it go away, and we don’t have to pay
any more,” he said. “This ability to expand and shrink as needed contributes
directly to our bottom line.”
“Today, if I need more resources, I don’t even have
to contact Savvis. I can go directly to my customer
portal and create a data center and deploy it.”
– Ray Umerley
Vice President, Chief Security Officer, Innovest