Verizon says there is more to the cloud than just computing resources
The challenge of navigating through the vendor hype in the market place, as well as ongoing industry concerns about security and data integrity, combine with increasingly demanding regulatory and compliance requirements to make business choices in cloud computing; Verizon says its Cloud Computing Program could help
Cloud computing is arguably the hottest trend in the ICT space today, but the growing number of cloud offerings and how they match up with different business and corporate environments, mean that adopting a cloud computing model is far from an easy task for most organizations. This challenge of navigating through the vendor hype in the market place, as well as ongoing industry concerns about security and data integrity, combined with increasingly demanding regulatory and compliance requirements, are the main driver behind the launch of Verizon Business’ new Cloud Computing Program.
“It’s more about cutting through some of that hype there in the industry,” said Verizon Business practice manager of IT solutions and global services, David Rosengrave. “We are seeing a lot of different vendors, dressing up a lot of different products, calling them cloud solutions. What we did see out there in the industry as a challenge for companies, was a clear path for customers to take in terms of being able to assess different offerings and cut through some of that hype. And then have a step-by-step path to be able to move onto the cloud.”
The goal of the program, according to Rosengrave, is to take all that complexity and simplify it for its customers. Services that are offered as part of that program including assessment of an organization’s IT infrastructure, designing a cloud strategy, implementation and deployment to the cloud, as well as the ongoing management and monitoring of cloud services.
“It really brings together all of our different services that are oriented towards the cloud in one step-by-step program,” he explained. “It’s really bringing together a lot of our security, our professional services, our monitoring, and managed services as it relates to the cloud. It’s vendor agnostic, and very flexible in terms of organizations being able to leverage the program no matter where they are in terms of their cloud strategy. So whether that is in regards to helping them assess and helping them make the right decision around what is the right cloud model for them, or whether it is actually helping them migrate to a specific cloud
