The impact of cloud technology continues to ripple through the enterprise, as organizations increasingly add hosted infrastructure and services to improve their business processes. This past year, we saw an overall spike in enterprises adopting cloud solutions and cloud services providers, such as Verizon, have helped make it easier for businesses to implement cloud strategies with new interconnect services, improved functionality and simplified cloud-purchasing tools. Check out the top 5 Verizon cloud stories of 2014 to learn how cloud can benefit your enterprise company.
IT Regaining Control of Cloud, Says Verizon State of the Market: Enterprise Cloud 2014 Report
Sixty-five percent of enterprise customers are now using cloud technology, services and solutions as part of their IT infrastructure, according to Verizon Enterprise Solutions’ State of the Market: Enterprise Cloud 2014 report. In addition, IT — specifically the CIO/CTO — controls more than 80 percent of total cloud spend within the organization and personally oversees more than half (62 percent) of cloud purchases.
Verizon Takes Workload-Driven Approach to the Cloud
Verizon Enterprise Solutions released a new service model and a set of new features and functionality for the company’s cloud infrastructure and storage platform, designed to help enterprises move business critical workloads into the cloud. This updated Verizon Cloud includes a variety of services tiers, onboarding and workload migration services, seamless integration with third-party cloud services and several deployment options ranging from public cloud to private on-premise cloud.
Open for Business: Cloud Marketplace Simplifies Cloud Purchasing Experience
Verizon Enterprise Solutions simplified the cloud-purchasing experience for its clients, with the launch of Verizon Cloud Marketplace, a key foundational component of the company’s robust ecosystem of enterprise-class technologies. The online storefront features pre-built cloud-based services from AppDynamics, Hitachi Data Systems, Juniper Networks, pfSense and Tervela.
Verizon Expands Cloud Solutions, With Secure Cloud Interconnect
Verizon addressed the growing need for organizations to connect more than one cloud seamlessly and securely, with the launch of its Secure Cloud Interconnect service. Enterprise organizations will be able to use Verizon’s Private IP service to connect to multiple cloud services including the Verizon Cloud, Amazon Web Services, HP, Salesforce, Google and Microsoft Azure, with additional major cloud services expected to come online in the near future.
Enterprises See Value in Cloud
In a candid video interview, Siki Giunta, SVP for cloud at Verizon Enterprise Solutions, explains that the industry and media frenzy over “price wars” for cloud services is really just “some providers being provocative.” The real war for cloud is over who is able to provide value to enterprises as they increasingly migrate business-critical workloads to the cloud.
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