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Mid Market Business Cloud Services. www.Intersolv.net. Research Overview x Competitive Landscape x Implications x Recommendations x. www.Intersolv.net. Cloud Services arriving in market thru a mix of organic growth, acquisition and strategic alliance
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Mid Market Business Cloud Services www.Intersolv.net
Research Overview x Competitive Landscape x Implications x Recommendations x www.Intersolv.net
Cloud Services arriving in market thru a mix of organic growth, acquisition and strategic alliance Services include Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Software as a Service (SaaS) and Hyrbrid Solutions Navisite North American general availability launch June 1st Microsoft Silverlight Cloud APP Launch Xbox Live interface that will support up to 40 TV entertainment provider channels Google launches Apps marketplace 3rd party developer online store Google adds 24x7 Apps phone support and slashes price of cloud ‘Chromebooks’ Verizon Acquires CloudSwitch Verizon Acquires Terremark for $1.4B 2010 1H11 2H11 2012+ XO launches w/StillSecure partnership TWC Acquires Navisite for $230M Qwest launches iQ On Demand IVR Cloud Solution for businesses Despite this speed to market, the SLAs leave businesses significant risk A total data center outage can cost an organization approximately $680,000 E-commerce firms that depend solely on data centers to deliver IT and networking services - their highest cost of a single outage can exceed $1M ($11,000 per minute) Sources: Published articles and the Ponemon Institute & Emerson Network Power Survey in May 2011 Survey of 450 U.S. data center professionals and 41 data centers www.Intersolv.net
The number and geographic sites of data center locations suggests most competition is indirect in nature Mid-Market competition typified by free or entry level ‘pay by use’ priced tiers and simplistic SLAs Sources: Service provider websites, Annual and Quarterly financial reports, investor relations reports and/or published articles
Google and Amazon are among the most innovative and competitive mid-market Cloud Providers Verizon and Time Warner have acquired capability vs. Comcast that has staged initial deployment building a IaaS Platform that provides future application scalability to target vertical market solutions Sources: YE10 Annual reports, investor relations and/or published articles www.Intersolv.net
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