Halfway through the year, as we survey the ever-evolving cloud market, it’s very clear from the conversations we’ve had with clients, potential clients and vendors that private cloud services will be the dominant requirement among Irish businesses within the next 18 to 24 months.
Whether you’re talking about different market segments or different sizes of organisation, we’d hold that to be true, and there are a number of factors which have led us to this point.
Certainly security and control of the cloud environment are paramount among the positives that push private cloud out ahead of the public model. In addition, there is perhaps a more educated view in the Irish market on what exactly private cloud represents than was the case in previous years.
That’s not to say many companies won’t step ahead of that cycle, but in a general sense the market will mature as whole towards private cloud in that 18 to 24-month period. The idea of switching to that end-to-end cloud environment is now no longer seen as an onerous or risky process, instead there’s a growing awareness that it’s something which makes a business both more effective and agile.
In terms of the companies who will go down this route, certainly SMEs from 100 employees upwards will be looking towards private cloud. Multinationals who are headquartered in Ireland but have several offices internationally will also find the same business case applicable for moving to a private cloud, especially when data concerns — particularly the location of data — are taken into account.
There is certainly a path to maturity that has to be travelled to get to the stage where these businesses move to a predominantly private model.
At BT, we have a range of private cloud offerings which we can supply, install, configure and integrate into your business, allowing you to harmonise fragmented architectures into one and create a simplified management view.
As it consolidates and virtualises all your IT, the private cloud model leaves your IT team free to focus on innovations and applications to drive your business forward, freeing up cost and management resources.
With a lower cost of ownership and a flexible, agile cloud architecture that makes it easy to roll out new applications and adjust existing ones, BT’s private cloud solutions also future proof your business, ensuring you stay ahead of the game at all times.
In addition, we have global public cloud offering as well — BT Cloud Compute — which offers pre-provisioned data centre infrastructure. Utilising a self-service portal, the tools, resources and expertise your business needs are all available to enable you to create, deploy, monitor and manage your own cloud service.
Brendan McMorrow is market research and insight manager at BT Ireland.
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