Enterprises have been slow to adopt Amazon Web Services and
other public cloud services, but that could soon change, says McKinsey.
Not exact matches
That traction results from a concerted effort Amazon management over the past four or five years to convince businesses in the financial
services, healthcare, and government that running on shared
public cloud infrastructure meets their security and
other requirements.
Clearly EMC, like every
other IT incumbent, has one nervous eye on Amazon Web
Services, the
public cloud giant that became a huge success largely because software developers saw it as a cheap, easy way to get the resources they need to build and test their products.
Amazon Web
Services's flagship
cloud storage
service, known as S3, holds nearly twice as much customer data as the top seven
other public cloud providers combined, according to Gartner's latest research.
Speed, agility, time to market and
other characteristics are table stakes for
public cloud services.
The beauty of Gravitant is that it will let a company's employees set up and use a variety of
cloud services using the same screen whether those
services lie inside their own firewall, on dedicated resources run by IBM outside their firewall, or in some
other public cloud (including AWS), said Don Rippert, IBM's general manager of
cloud strategy.
Meanwhile,
other data and jobs would go to
public cloud, which is shared infrastructure owned and run by a third - party provider, whether it's Amazon (AMZN) Web Services, Microsoft (MSFT), Azure, Google (GOOG) Cloud Platform or IBM SoftL
cloud, which is shared infrastructure owned and run by a third - party provider, whether it's Amazon (AMZN) Web
Services, Microsoft (MSFT), Azure, Google (GOOG)
Cloud Platform or IBM SoftL
Cloud Platform or IBM SoftLayer.
giving a qualified endorsement of an update to a 1986 privacy law that leading
cloud -
service providers,
public - interest groups and
others argue is woefully out of step with the current methods of sending and storing communications.
In that market it must contend not only with
other telco - rooted companies --[company] CenturyLink [/ company], [company] AT&T [/ company] et al — which are trying to pitch the same customers but with
public cloud giant [company] Amazon [/ company] Web
Services, which has proved serious about winning corporate workloads.