{"id":6018,"date":"2013-02-21T04:50:02","date_gmt":"2013-02-21T04:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/blog-hub\/2013\/feb\/21\/microsoft-oracle-sap-demystifying-cloud-vendors\/"},"modified":"2013-02-21T04:50:02","modified_gmt":"2013-02-21T04:50:02","slug":"microsoft-oracle-sap-demystifying-cloud-vendors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/microsoft-oracle-sap-demystifying-cloud-vendors\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft, Oracle, SAP: Demystifying cloud vendors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cutting through the hype of cloud vendors starts by evaluating how ready their cloud services, enabling technologies and professional services are to serve customers today.<\/p>\n<p>That&rsquo;s one of the key take-aways from a recent webinar I attended titled&nbsp;How Cloud Computing Changes the Vendor Landscape&nbsp;by David Mitchell Smith, VP and&nbsp;Gartner&nbsp;Fellow last week.&nbsp; The slides are available for&nbsp;download here&nbsp;(Free for download after&nbsp;Gartner&nbsp;registration if you are not a&nbsp;Gartner&nbsp;client).<\/p>\n<p>What made this webinar unique and worth mentioning is the framework that was presented for evaluating vendors.&nbsp; Beginning with the well-known&nbsp;Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) structure,&nbsp;Gartner&nbsp;added in a&nbsp;Business&nbsp;and Information Systems layer that includes brokerages, management and security.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>This is the layer where&nbsp;Gartner&nbsp;says they are seeing enterprise clients most concentrate on emerging technologies.<\/p>\n<p>The cloud vendor landscape is defined by cloud services, professional services for consumption &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cutting through the hype of cloud vendors starts by evaluating how ready their cloud services, enabling technologies and professional services are to serve customers today.<br \/>\nThat&rsquo;s one of the key take-aways from a recent webinar I attended titled&amp;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}