In the midst of strong cloud competition coming from many different sources as well as rampant cloud-washing in the market, service providers need to differentiate and add value to their cloud offerings in order to be relevant.
However, differentiation often drives up costs. It’s much cheaper to offer the plain vanilla version of everything, including cloud services.
Sure, customers will pay a premium for things like ongoing compliance, security and service levels, but service providers need to ensure the cost of differentiation does not outweigh the added value.
Enter automation
Automation across the board encompassing servers, networks, databases and applications can help cloud service providers take out costs across their data centre and cloud infrastructure while delivering that value add they need to compete.
There are three key areas that service providers can realize increased agility and cost savings through automation:
- Automated provisioning – across the stack from infrastructure to …