Top 5 Strategies for Cloud Vendors and CloudController®

Recently Kamesh Pemmaraju, who heads the cloud research team at Sand Hill Group, wrote an article in his blog about the top five strategies cloud vendors should take to heart. According to the article, services in the cloud are rapidly evolving while end-customers learn more about the cloud and will differentiate true cloud services from marketing slogans. Therefore, for IaaS Providers to be successful they will need to invest in the future to anticipate the changes and consider the following 5 key strategies:

1.    Extend Your Client Relationship beyond IT
2.    (Re)Position Your Products and Services For a Hybrid Cloud World
3.    Invest in Long-Term "True" Cloud Product/Services Strategies
4.    Do Not Underestimate The Cultural Barriers: Help Alleviate the Impact
5.    Offer More Granular Contracts

Strategy number 3, Invest in Long-Term "True" Cloud Product/Services Strategies is where CloudController® can truly help your organization gain a competitive edge NOW by delivering:
•    On-demand elasticity - the ability to increase or decrease of services/resources as demand goes up or down
•    ‘Pay-as-you-go’ and associated "metering" or measurement of the service - customer only pays for the services consumed
•    Resource pooling - secure multi-tenant architectures meaning resources are shared among many customers
•    Ubiquitous anytime, anywhere access - via mobile, Internet, PDAs, laptops, and so on
•    Automated self-service capabilities

(Re)Position Your Products and Services For a Hybrid Cloud World

This is a essential development - and CloudController® supports the hybrid cloud now! We will incorporate many more features in the coming minor releases which are already in the roadmap. Please contact us so we can share with you how we currently support the hybrid cloud, and what the future holds in store for CloudController®, helping you prepare for the future by deploying these five strategies.

Support of Multiple Hypervisors

CloudController® supports more than one hypervisor and virtualization platform seamlessly and simultaneously, which means you can design and build a heterogeneous cloud-based managed services platform from VDC infrastructure based upon VMware vSphere/vCloud, Citrix XenServer and Microsoft Hyper-V/SCVMM, giving you all the advantages of a heterogeneous virtualization enviroment.