While cloud computing is well known for lowering costs, and bringing additional agility to enterprises, the emergence of vertical-specific clouds is beginning to define their value as well. Vertical-specific clouds are those public or community clouds that provide processes and support for data storage that are specific to a vertical, such as healthcare, manufacturing, retail, finance, etc.
These types of clouds provide pre-built business processes that are specific to a vertical industry, and they provide pre-built data structures, as well as vertical-specific compliance and security. For example, as we discussed in the last blog post, vertical-specific give a cloud provider the ability to support HIPAA as a service that’s built into the cloud.