{"id":6767,"date":"2013-04-02T15:20:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-02T15:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2601322"},"modified":"2013-04-02T15:20:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-02T15:20:00","slug":"gartner-sees-the-end-of-the-traditional-sourcing-model-rise-of-the-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/gartner-sees-the-end-of-the-traditional-sourcing-model-rise-of-the-cloud\/","title":{"rendered":"Gartner Sees the End of the Traditional Sourcing Model, Rise of the Cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gartner has been looking toward the future, and what it sees is a future in the cloud.<br \/>\nGartner believes that service-led solutions \u2013 software as a service (SaaS), infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and platform as a service (PaaS) \u2013 will usurp more traditional sourcing methods by 2015.<br \/>\nIT companies will need to \u201cbridge legacy offerings and new services\u201d to pave a way to the cloud for service providers, according to an article on CloudComputingNews.net.<br \/>\nCloud services appear to be growing at a much quicker rate than other segments of the IT services market. Hardware and software support will grow slowly compared to IaaS and BPaaS (business process as a service), which will grow 13.1% and 47.3% in 2013, according to Gartner.<br \/>\n\u201cGrowth opportunities certainly exist for service providers with life cycle solutions in relation to the Nexus of Forces,\u201d noted Eric Rocco, Gartner managing vice president. \u201cHowever, this requires IT services providers to adapt to significant changes, including the growing influence of business leaders in technology investment decisions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2601322\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gartner has been looking toward the future, and what it sees is a future in the cloud.<br \/>\nGartner believes that service-led solutions \u2013 software as a service (SaaS), infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and platform as a service (PaaS) \u2013 will usurp more&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6767","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}