final thought companies will offer a portfolio of managed public cloud services removing the need to build and maintain their own IaaS platform , which is a cash hungry , expensive beast to manage and grow .
Flexible connection The new managed IaaS provider is going to use the size , scale and location of the two big providers to deliver to the UK mid-market a platform from which organisations with small IT teams can harness the power of the cloud . This new outsource model is outsourcing the management of the environment and the opportunity to flexibly connect to multiple different cloud sources . The managed service provider owns the SDN platform from which you can choose which cloud you want to utilise . The challenge for the new managed IaaS provider is how to provide a lens through which the enterprise is able to view and utilise their cloud resources . You need to be able to manage all of your applications through this pane of glass and those organisations who today have their own IaaS platform will over time wind them up .
Globally , 81 per cent of McDonald ’ s restaurants are franchised yet you would never know when you go and eat in them ; the experience is the same the world over and the franchisee ‘ manages ’ your experience . Is there any reason why IaaS shouldn ’ t go the same way ? After all , all Microsoft and Amazon are doing is providing a franchise model .
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