Managed Cloud Services: Impacts of Changing Enterprise Sourcing Strategies and Requirements

Managed Cloud Services: Impacts of Changing Enterprise Sourcing Strategies and Requirements

This IDC Market Perspective discusses how enterprise approaches in sourcing their cloud services requirements utilizing an ecosystem involving managed SPs and cloud service providers (IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS) are driving fundamental changes in how firms will look to utilize these groups of providers in the future. This IDC Market Perspective also shows that there is a wide array of critical factors that are contributing to the restructuring of this ecosystem and will shape the roles and responsibilities of each of these sets of service providers."Shifting client requirements and approaches in utilizing an ecosystem of managed SPs and cloud SPs to support their use of cloud services are driving a fundamental change in the roles and responsibilities of each of these groups of service providers that will require managed SPs to take bigger risks in the future to ensure competitiveness and growth," says David Tapper, program VP, Outsourcing and Managed Cloud Services at IDC. "Ensuring long-term success as managed SPs will require that they brand as managing complexity, position as general contractors, create an air traffic control function, develop franchise business models, and provide specialized platforms."

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