{"id":8313,"date":"2013-07-19T16:03:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-19T16:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2013\/jul\/19\/cloud-service-providers-opportunity-or-threat\/"},"modified":"2013-07-19T16:03:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-19T16:03:00","slug":"cloud-service-providers-opportunity-or-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/cloud-service-providers-opportunity-or-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloud service providers: Opportunity or threat?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&rsquo;s important to examine the current &lsquo;state of play&rsquo; for cloud delivered solutions based on a couple of key dimensions; what is being deployed in the cloud and who is providing the IT service from the cloud.<\/p>\n<p>The image conjured up by the term &ldquo;cloud&rdquo; is that of companies like Amazon, Google and Microsoft delivering large-scale computing infrastructure that eliminate the need for on-premises IT equipment and software. Since these cloud providers build their own infrastructure rather than buying from product manufacturers, it could be argued they are shrinking the market share.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Opportunity is Larger than the Threat<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>However, there are other categories of service providers that balance, more than offset the reduced spend and create an opportunity:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Consumer SaaS providers<\/strong> aggregate consumer-spend into centralised shared enterprise infrastructure. Consumer applications that traditionally consumed end user equipment are moving to the cloud triggering a need for enterprise infrastructure. While &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&rsquo;s important to examine the current &lsquo;state of play&rsquo; for cloud delivered solutions based on a couple of key dimensions; what is being deployed in the cloud and who is providing the IT service from the cloud.<br \/>\nThe image conjured up by &#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-8313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8313","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=8313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}