In the increasing cloud data center space, corporations
have realized the urge to invest and make themselves strong to cope up in the highly
competitive data center Industry. In this Article we have identified some major
giants and their strategic moves in entering the Cloud Space. NOVA based Cloud Automation
This week's article features Corporations like Microsoft,
Accenture and Nuage Networks and their strategies in the cloud.
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Accenture:
Accenture plans to make a strategic move into the cloud
in all forms public, private and hybrid.
"Accenture
will invest more than $400 million in cloud technologies, capabilities and
training by 2015".
Accenture global senior managing director (cloud) Jack
Sepple stated.
Accenture entered the cloud services with a Cloud
Platform to help organizations integrate and manage cloud services across
multiple vendors. Unlike other cloud service providers Accenture operates on a
pay-per-use model, helping companies cut costs as they do not have to invest
heavily on infrastructure. Well we heard of Pay per Click Ads.. PPU (Pay Per
use) in the cloud?? Well Time has to prove how successful this approach is.
Will this be as hit as PPC of Google??
The platform is already being used in more than 200
projects as per Accenture.
Nuage - Alcatel
Lucent
Nuage Networks, an Alcatel-Lucent owned developer of
software defined networking solutions, released an open software platform to
automate networks in data center environments. It’s called Virtualized Services
Platform (VSP) .This is based on Service Router Operating system software by
Alcatel Lucent.
By using this platform (VSP) Nuage scales to support
large datacenters with thousands of customers, each with thousands of users,
making it suitable for public, private and hybrid cloud services. With this
move we believe that Alcatel Lucent has launched itself to the highly
competitive cloud.
Nuage's VSP solution works with OpenStack, CloudStack and
VMware cloud environments and any data center network switches. This solution
will enhance the network connectivity inside the data centers. Apart from this
VSP provides data center to enterprise virtual private network (VPN)
connectivity.
Well last but not
the least the kingpin in the Industry - Microsoft.
Microsoft has well lot of things that need to be managed.
Unlike other organizations working on project launches.. Microsoft has a cycle
of launching new products or services on a regular basis. How to they maintain
the service levels? How are they maintaining SLA's with their vendors? Be it
small or Large. We believe that Microsoft's Intuition has been very impressive
here in understanding the need for maintaining the largest cloud being a big
player itself.
Site up, costs down approach:
Microsoft uses a very niche approach for putting their
operational costs down. How do they do it. Well it’s quite simple. They add a
new data center only when they see consumer demand. However since Microsoft has
a well planned Human resource and technical talent to meet such kind of
approach with its operational design? Practically for any other organization of
not of size of Microsoft (Mid sized or SME'S) this approach might prove costly.
While software has taken a central role in helping
maintain service availability and keeping cloud up and running, Accenture
anticipates and prepares itself for issues that may occur. This preparation is a
smart move by the company in maintaining the quality of services rendered.
Incident
Management Model Approach by Microsoft:
Using an incident management model, staff in the
Microsoft data centers can quickly identify issues and resolutions, while also
driving engagement for higher severity issues. The model establishes clear
account abilities and describes parameters for handling incidents and outages.
Microsoft's vision of maintaining its service delivery levels
high with the above unique approaches and thereby cutting down their
operational expenses is indeed a smart move.
And that's where
Microsoft stands smart.
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