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Outsourced Infrastructure
Outsourced Infrastructure: Infrastructure outsourcing is a subcontracting service in which the management of an organization’s Information Technology (IT) systems and applications is handled by a third party. While these services have become very popular in recent times, the concept of outsourcing is not entirely new. In fact, corporations such as EDS, IBM, and Unisys started the infrastructure outsourcing trend in the early 1990s by seizing full ownership of the employees and IT assets of client companies. Management of a company’s IT infrastructure and applications is often done from a remote location, usually in the service provider’s data center. Some choose local facilities, while others elect to outsource offshore. In the typical arrangement, the contractor takes a number of proactive measures and remedial actions to ensure that all of the client’s IT assets will always be available to its customers. For most companies, this availability applies to more than just servers. (Source: www.wisegeek.com)
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Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) is at the core of the cloud, making up its most powerful and complex layer. It’s no wonder then that most cloud spending today is being distributed in the IaaS arena, where Virtual Dedicated Servers (VDS) are offering IT managers access to services that look and act like real physical servers. Rather than spend on the costly maintenance of legacy servers, IT managers can now repurpose development time towards revenue-generating applications through the con ... read more
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One of the key benefits of cloud computing adoption is the fact that firms can shift their focus away from IT infrastructure management and toward their core business aims - i.e. their bottom lines. According to EuroCloud, businesses benefit by overcoming implementation and maintenance hurdles that often bog companies down.Phil Wainewright, vice-president ... read more
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The decision to outsource or in-source data centre services is not one taken lightly. Just as organisations felt they had figured out what to outsource and what to keep in-house, cloud computing has fuelled renewed interest in outsourcing, resulting in enterprises reassessing their IT service sourcing strategies.
This white paper provides some important considerations when deciding on data centre services and covers the following:
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A former Citrix employee has claimed that desktop virtualization is still some way off maturity and requires a certain level of technical expertise if it is to be implemented effectively. This could point to an increasing demand for outsourced infrastructure solutions that leave management and maintenance to a third party.Speaking to CRN, Simon Crosby, who used ... read more
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IT infrastructure has been evolving over the past two decades but the next five years are going to be crucial to its development - particularly when it comes to cloud computing and infrastructure as a service (IaaS).According to Gartner's Lydia Leong, a research vice president at t ... read more
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