Cloud Services
Cloud service providers are companies that establish public clouds, manage private clouds, or offer on-demand cloud computing components (also known as cloud computing services) like Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), and Software-as-a-Service(SaaS). Cloud services can reduce business process costs when compared to on-premise IT.
When your hardware and software are all on-premises, it’s up to you and your team to manage, update, and replace each component as needed. Cloud service providers allow you to allocate the management of one, several, or all of the parts of your infrastructure to a third party. Instead of buying and maintaining your own infrastructure, you access it as a service.
The best cloud for your enterprise depends on your business needs, the size of your business, your current computing platform and IT infrastructure, and your goals for the future.
In a modern IT organization, cloud service providers nearly always play a role in a cloud implementation plan. This may include taking on the role of managing infrastructure, software, services, or some combination thereof.
To get started, you’ll want to determine what services you need from your cloud to support your enterprise strategy. From there, you can evaluate whether a particular cloud service provider aligns accordingly.
- Amazon Web Service (AWS)
- ServerSpace
- Microsoft Azure
- Google Cloud Platform
- IBM Cloud Services
- Adobe Creative Cloud
- Kamatera
- VMware
- Rackspace
- Red Hat
- Salesforce
- Oracle Cloud
- SAP
- Verizon Cloud
- Navisite
- Dropbox