If the issue of vendor lock-in is not carefully managed, thecloud could represent a step backward in terms of its impact on flexibility and choice inthe enterprise.
In June 2012, it acquired White Glove Technologies, a Texas-based managed IT services provider, in an effort to strengthen its presence inthecloud services industry and expand its managed IT services in Texas.
We also note that the inherent growth in its cloud and managed hosting base underscores our thesis that the data center and managed hosting sectors will continue to demonstrate the best organic growth inthe telecom sector.
Our play inthecloud business is to attract as many of these managed and dedicated hosting companies that are selling thecloud offerings to put their cloud infrastructure into our data centers.
Thanks to data center managers who are vigilantly seeking improved energy efficiency on your behalf, your power usage inthecloud is being managed responsibly.
This, combined with the cost effectiveness of the pay-what-you-use cloud environment and white glove service of a fully managed SAP environment, we now plan to move to HANA for all of our production environments inthe Virtustream enterprise cloud.