BEYOND

cloud

‘

I would be happier

to say to our

customers that

we are working in be intermediated by 13 different cloud

a private domain cloud service brokers, services. We have a lot

and we are closely says the Gartner of complex business

managing our advisory firm. At models. If someone

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services present less than 5% came along and said

Star C.A.B. Member of cloud services are they could do the

supplied in this way. monitoring we would

jump at the chance.”

Mixed cloud models

There was an Added value

opportunity to help CAB members agreed

organisations move to that brokers would

a mixed cloud model, have to add value.

the group agreed. “I Star’s acting CEO,

just want to go to one Paul Watson, asked

vendor,” said one Star delegates whether

customer. “I used to Star could be a broker;

have 150 contracts; combining public

it is a nightmare to clouds such as Amazon

manage.” with private clouds

used by clients.

Another said: “We

see ourselves Some attendees didn’t

moving between expect…

cloud providers; we [continued]

are already using 5